Kendo Brands
Kendo is LVMH’s beauty incubator, home to brands like Fenty Beauty, Ole Henriksen, and KVD Beauty. Working in supply chain gave me a close look at the systems, logistics, and decision-making behind modern beauty brands.
Chemical compliance isn’t glamorous, but in global beauty, it determines whether a product can ship.
At Kendo, I built internal Python tooling and data pipelines to automate regulatory compliance tracking across global markets. The work involved ingesting supplier data, validating formulations against regional standards, and flagging potential compliance risks before products reached manufacturing or retail.
Much of the process previously lived in spreadsheets and manual reviews. My role was to help turn that into scalable infrastructure that gave the supply chain team clearer, real-time visibility into the launch pipeline.
Behind every product launch is twelve to eighteen months of invisible work.
Every component moves through a separate chain of approvals, suppliers, and manufacturing timelines. Formula, packaging, labeling, and retail all move independently. One delay affects everything downstream. Most people only see the campaign or the product on a shelf. The work behind both is much larger than people expect.
What stayed with me most was the amount of waste built into the system. Forecasts miss. Formulas change. Packaging gets revised. Products get discontinued. Inventory sits in warehouses or gets written off.
Working inside supply chain changed how I think about sustainability. I saw where excess comes from and why large brands struggle to avoid it.
Working inside luxury changed how I think about scale. The same systems that make global brands possible also produce waste, delay, and overproduction.