Beyond Graduation
FIT is internationally recognized for the quality of its programs and the caliber of its graduates. At FIT, you’re connected through a faculty of industry professionals and extensive networking opportunities. As a result, FIT graduates have a higher than average job placement rate.
Graduates of the Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing program hold a variety of positions
including marketing manager, global product development coordinator, fragrance evaluator, creative fragrance development manager, director of product education, and retail operations manager.
Graduates are placed at small and large cosmetics companies, fragrances developers, retail organizations, private-label manufacturers including Estée Lauder, Parfums Givenchy, Barneys, L’Oréal, Lancôme, Victoria’s Secret Beauty, Fresh Inc., Avon, Unilever, MAC, Clarins USA, and Coty.
Where Beauty Meets Anthropology
As vice president of product development global marketing for The Estée Lauder Companies, Light works to determine what product launches are next for her brands.
Light describes herself as a sociologist or anthropologist for beauty. “You’re studying the consumer landscape … you have to look at nuances and signals and use this predictive information about what’s going to happen in the future,” she says.
And any successful cultural researcher has to explore what’s happening outside of their own environment. “When you're sitting in your office on Fifth Avenue, it’s a very myopic view of the world,” says Light, who’s lost count of the number of countries she’s visited for work. “Going places and seeing how locals want to appear and make themselves feel beautiful is an unbelievable advantage when studying people—which is my job.”
Orrea Light
Contact Us
If you have questions about this program, please reach out.
Cosmetics and Fragrance Marketing
Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology
Business and Liberal Arts Center, Room B436
(212) 217-4250