Roberto Canevari

Executive Vice President and Chief Value Chain Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies

Speaking at TFEST26: Monday, December 1 2026 at 09:30–09:50 on the Main Stage — “Reimagining Operations: How The Estée Lauder Companies Manage a 150-Market Supply Chain”.

About Roberto

Roberto Canevari serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Value Chain Officer at The Estée Lauder Companies. In this role, he oversees end-to-end global operations including Manufacturing, Planning, Quality, and Sustainability. Previously EVP of Supply Chain Europe at Unilever, Roberto brings extensive experience from executive roles at Burberry, Carrefour, and Nestlé Water. He is a transformative leader focused on integrating R&D with supply chain strategy to drive innovation, responsible sourcing, and operational excellence.

Session Overview

The Estée Lauder Companies' Chief Value Chain Officer discusses how the company restructured its supply chain leadership — integrating packaging, engineering, manufacturing, and planning under one mandate — to respond faster to beauty trends across 150+ country markets. The conversation covers sourcing from geopolitically sensitive regions, designing packaging supply chains that can pivot between suppliers, and balancing global efficiency with local responsiveness in one of the most demand-volatile consumer categories.

About TFEST26

TFEST26 is Europe's most senior supply chain conference, taking place December 1–2 2026 at Colosseum Berlin. It brings together 400+ Director-level and above leaders — Chief Supply Chain Officers, VPs, and senior directors from Cisco, Henkel, Estée Lauder, Diageo, Schneider Electric, Novartis, Mars, and others — for two days of peer benchmarking, candid practitioner firesides, themed roundtables, and pre-scheduled 1:1 meetings.