WHAT ON EARTH IS DECIEM?
We are a collective of disrupters and doers, of creatives and scientists, with a mission to reimagine the world of beauty.
Since inception, our vertically integrated structure, including our own laboratories, manufacturing, retail stores, and brand infrastructure, have enabled us to rapidly identify opportunities and deliver quality. Home to The Ordinary, NIOD, AVESTAN, and other emerging brands, our goal is to create with purpose. We were founded on the principle of doing everything that others don’t. Because normal gets you nowhere.
We are DECIEM, The Abnormal Beauty Company.
WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR
This is a fixed-term 12 month consulting engagement.
Compensation Structure: Billable consulting services based on daily rate
The Interim Director will ensure operational continuity, provide leadership during the transisiton, and support the successful integration of people programs, processes and systems into ELC (Estee Lauder Companies).
This is a three day in office hybrid role, based out of our Liberty Village office.
WHAT YOU'D BE DOING IN THIS ROLE
Total Rewards, Payroll & Benefits
- Lead the Compensation, Benefits, and Payroll teams, ensuring programs and operations are delivered effectively and consistently across DECIEM.
- Ensure compensation programs and decisions are administered in accordance with ELC (Estee Lauder Companies) policies, frameworks, and governance, providing direction on complex or nonstandard scenarios.
- Serve as the senior escalation point for compensation matters, determining the appropriate approach within established frameworks and partnering with ELC Total Rewards stakeholders when additional guidance, approval, or exception review is required.
- Advise HR and business leaders on compensation matters, translating ELC principles and policies into practical recommendations that reflect business needs, internal equity, and governance requirements.
- Oversee benefits delivery, ensuring alignment with ELC frameworks in onboarded markets and effective vendor management and escalation support in markets not yet transitioned to ELC.
- Provide oversight of Global Payroll operations, ensuring appropriate controls, governance, service delivery, and resolution of significant payroll matters.
People Analytics & Engagement
- Lead People Analytics and engagement activities, ensuring insights and reporting support business and People priorities.
- Guide the team in developing analysis, reporting, and workforce insights, ensuring data quality, consistency, and appropriate governance.
- Transform workforce and engagement analysis into executive dashboards, compelling data storytelling, and practical recommendations that support Senior Leadership decision making, organizational planning, and business priorities.
- Oversee employee listening and engagement processes, ensuring results and insights are effectively communicated and translated into appropriate actions.
People Systems & Data
- Lead the integration and transition of DECIEM people systems and processes into ELC platforms, ensuring business needs, dependencies, and operational impacts are understood and addressed.
- Act as a senior advisor on DECIEM and ELC people systems, understanding system capabilities and limitations and translating business requirements into practical solutions.
- Oversee changes and enhancements to Ceridian Dayforce and other DECIEM people systems required to support ongoing operations and integration activities.
- Partner with ELC, IT, HR, and external stakeholders to coordinate system interfaces, data requirements, testing, implementation, and issue resolution.
- Ensure appropriate governance, documentation, controls, and business readiness for people system and data changes.
M&A Integration & Transformation
- Lead the people related execution of DECIEM's integration into ELC across Total Rewards, Payroll, Benefits, People Systems, Data, and related People Operations areas.
- Translate ELC integration requirements into coordinated execution plans, ensuring DECIEM business requirements, employee impacts, risks, and operational dependencies are appropriately considered.
- Serve as a key DECIEM business leader with ELC stakeholders, navigating complex integration matters, escalating significant issues, and supporting effective decision making.
- Provide leadership across integration workstreams including compensation harmonization, benefits transition, payroll migration, job grading, systems integration, data, communications, and post implementation activities.
- Ensure integration activities transition effectively into sustainable business as usual processes, with appropriate governance, ownership, controls, and documentation.
Strategic Projects & Functional Leadership
- Translate People and business strategy into clear functional priorities, operating plans, and execution across Total Rewards and People Operations.
- Lead and oversee strategic People projects spanning multiple functions, ensuring clear ownership, timelines, dependencies, and stakeholder alignment.
- Provide leadership and direction to functional leaders and team members, fostering accountability, collaboration, development, and continuous improvement.
- Establish clear decision making and escalation mechanisms across the function and ensure significant risks and issues are appropriately addressed.
- Build strong relationships with DECIEM leadership, HR partners, ELC functional teams, Finance, IT, Legal, external vendors, and other key stakeholders.
People Leadership
- Lead and develop a high-performing, collaborative People team across Total Rewards, Payroll, People Operations, People Analytics and Engagement.
- Foster an inclusive, trusting environment where team members feel valued, heard and empowered to contribute and grow.
- Build strong connections and ways of working across the different People functions, creating alignment, shared accountability and a seamless employee experience.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS NEEDED TO GET THE JOB DONE
- 10 or more years of progressive HR experience, including significant people leadership experience.
- Strong knowledge and practical experience across Total Rewards, HR Technology, (e.g. Dayforce, SAP) and People Data and Analytics.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex integrations, transformation initiatives, or large cross functional HR projects.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience working with senior leaders and global functional teams.
- Ability to translate business strategy, global frameworks, and complex requirements into practical execution.
- Experience working in a global or multinational organization is preferred.
BUILDING GROWTH TO POWER GOOD
We are a People first company that lives by our core values to…
- ✨ Defy Convention.
- ✨ Make it real.
- ✨ Play in the grey.
- ✨ Build Bridges.
- ✨ Be the rabbit.
These values continue to guide us in all that we do. Along the way, we’ve been honoured to win some pretty incredible awards, including a CEW Achiever Award, Best Skincare Brand at Sunday Times Style Beauty Awards, and Most Popular Sustainable Brand by The Cosmetify Index Global. We’re still blushing!
WANT TO JOIN US?
Thank you for reading the whole thing! If you liked what you heard, kindly send us your resume. We really appreciate your effort in applying for this position. However, only those who have been shortlisted for interviews will be contacted. <3
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