Leading beauty manufacturer, marketer and seller, Estée Lauder Companies Inc. (ELC) has announced an organisational evolution across its brand portfolio to strategically position the company for long-term, sustainable growth in a fast-paced evolving global landscape.
The company’s brand portfolio evolved into two brand clusters led by Executive Group President Jane Hertmark Hudis and Stéphane de La Faverie, who has been promoted to Executive Group President. This new brand leadership structure is designed to ensure continued portfolio-wide alignment, enabling the business to focus on the greatest areas of opportunity. The organisational evolution aligns with ELC’s forward-looking corporate strategy and Compass to accelerate the company’s ability to deliver now while simultaneously preparing for the future. The management structure is designed to promote cross-brand synergies and advance development at multiple levels of the organisation.
The Executive Group Presidents will work in partnership with the Brand Presidents, and will oversee their brands’ businesses, equity and innovation, continuing to work in close alignment with all internal functions and regions. Additionally, they will work closely with brand and value chain leaders to drive the strategy and growth plans for the company’s product categories and key subcategories.
Executive Group President Jane Hertzmark Hudis will continue leading one of the company’s brand clusters, with a portfolio of brands that includes: La Mer and Bobbi Brown; TOM FORD BEAUTY; M·A·C; Clinique and Origins; Aveda; Bumble and bumble’ and Dr.Jart+. Hertzmark Hudis will also continue her enterprise-wide executive leadership of skin care and hair care. All the current brand leaders remain the same, with the exception of Sandra Main taking direct responsibility of La Mer. In addition, Hertzmark Hudis will continue as an executive sponsor for key strategic enterprise-wide priorities, including initiatives focused on marketing excellence and winning with Chinese consumers.
Hertzmark Hudis has a proven track record of leading, building, and transforming global brands to achieve outstanding broad-based growth. With a vast knowledge of China, Luxury beauty, and consumer-centric local relevance, she is also a passionate advocate of leadership development, mentorship, and women’s advancement. Hertzmark Hudis co-founded The Estée Lauder Companies’ Women’s Leadership Network (“WLN”) in 2017, which has become the company’s largest employee resource group with a presence in every region.
As Executive Group President, Stéphane de La Faverie will continue to lead one of the company’s brand clusters including Estée Lauder and AERIN Beauty; Jo Malone London; Le Labo; KILIAN PARIS, Editions de Parfums Frederic Malle, Darphin Paris and LAB Series; and DECIEM (The Ordinary, NIOD, and Avestan). Additionally, Stéphane will add ELC’s California-based brands to his portfolio – Too Faced; Smashbox and GLAMGLOW – expanding his category leadership to now include makeup, in addition to fragrance and subcategories of home, bath and body, and men’s skin care and grooming. With the exception of Estée Lauder, all the leaders of the brands now in Stéphane’s portfolio remain the same. Stéphane will also continue to drive integrated planning and end-to-end business operations enterprise-wide.
De La Faverie’s promotion reflects a track record of building successful global brands and a deep expertise across categories and channels, helping build fragrance as a powerful engine of growth for the company.
Additional Brand Leadership Updates
- Justin Boxford has been appointed Global Brand President, Estée Lauder. He will report to Stéphane. A separate announcement on Justin’s appointment will be shared in the coming days.
- Sandra Main, Global Brand President, La Mer and Bobbi Brown, will assume direct leadership of La Mer and will oversee Bobbi Brown until a new leader is named. Sandra will continue reporting to Jane.
- Michelle Freyre has been promoted to Global Brand President, Clinique and Origins, expanding her brand oversight. Michelle will report to Jane.
- Amber Garrison, who assumed the role of Global Brand President, Origins in July 2022, will continue as a member of Jane’s leadership team and report to Michelle Freyre.
