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Estée Lauder Companies

Director, Engagement Partner, Org Effectiveness COE

Long Island City,US-NY,United States

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Posted
Jul 28, 2026
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Oct 23, 2026, 1:33 PM ET

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Description

The Director, Engagement Partner is a senior practitioner within the Organizational Effectiveness Center of Excellence (OE CoE), responsible for driving the successful execution of enterprise organizational effectiveness engagements through structured problem-solving, analysis, and delivery excellence. Working closely with Engagement Leads, this role helps design and implement organizational solutions while ensuring high-quality outputs, analytical rigor, and consistent engagement delivery.

The role translates complex business challenges into actionable approaches and recommendations, partnering with stakeholders and cross-functional teams to support organizational design, operating model, workforce planning, and transformation initiatives.

Engagement Delivery & Execution

  • Support end-to-end delivery of organizational effectiveness engagements, ensuring disciplined execution across workstreams.
  • Translate business challenges into structured workplans, hypotheses, and analytical approaches.
  • Develop high-quality deliverables that communicate insights, recommendations, and business implications.
  • Ensure outputs meet established standards for quality, accuracy, and practical application.

Analytical Problem Solving

  • Conduct analysis to support organizational design, operating model, and workforce-related decisions.
  • Partner with workforce planning and analytics resources to integrate data-driven insights into recommendations.
  • Support scenario modeling, option evaluation, and assessment of tradeoffs.
  • Synthesize complex information into clear narratives that drive stakeholder understanding and decision-making.

Project & Workstream Management

  • Lead defined workstreams, ensuring accountability, progress tracking, and alignment with engagement objectives.
  • Coordinate activities across stakeholders and teams to drive timely and effective execution.
  • Proactively identify and mitigate risks, issues, and dependencies.
  • Balance speed, quality, and attention to detail across all phases of delivery.

Stakeholder Coordination & Partnership

  • Support stakeholder engagement through preparation of materials, facilitation of discussions, and alignment on key decisions.
  • Serve as a primary point of coordination across business leaders, HR partners, and COE stakeholders within assigned workstreams.
  • Capture, synthesize, and incorporate stakeholder feedback into deliverables and recommendations.
  • Build trusted relationships that promote collaboration and effective execution.

HR & Business Integration

  • Partner with HRBPs and People teams to embed organizational design and workforce planning practices into strategic initiatives and business-as-usual operations.
  • Collaborate with People Experience teams to ensure organizational design and operating model recommendations translate into effective execution and sustainable adoption.
  • Help align organizational solutions with talent, change, and workforce priorities.

Quality, Methodology & Continuous Improvement

  • Ensure consistency and quality across engagements by applying OE methodologies, standards, and best practices.
  • Identify opportunities to improve tools, templates, and delivery approaches.
  • Contribute to the development and refinement of OE playbooks, frameworks, and methodologies.
  • Support capability building and knowledge sharing across the OE CoE.

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in organizational effectiveness, consulting, or HR transformation roles, with strong experience in analytical problem solving and structured delivery.
  • Demonstrated experience supporting complex organizational design, operating model, or transformation initiatives.
  • Strong analytical capability, including experience synthesizing data and translating insights into actionable recommendations.
  • Experience working in a matrixed and global organization, with the ability to navigate multiple stakeholders and priorities.
  • Strong communication skills, with the ability to develop clear, compelling materials and narratives.
  • High attention to detail and commitment to delivery excellence.
  • Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree a plus.