Manager Platform Engineering
About The Position
At Henkel, you'll be part of an organization that's shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil, 'all, Loctite, Snuggle, and Schwarzkopf and our cutting-edge technologies, you'll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow. This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit - where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
- Proven experience, 7-10 years, in strategic engineering or platform management roles, ideally in automotive or industrial sectors as well as sales experience.
- Strong technical understanding of Body in White and vehicle structural systems.
- Self-Motivation - Proactive and driven to achieve goals independently.
- Team Orientation - Collaborative mindset with a focus on shared success.
- Communication Skills - Clear and effective communicator across all levels of the organization.
- Flexibility - Adaptable to changing environments, priorities, and global contexts.
Responsibilities
- Frequent travel/visits to the customers and suppliers, around 50%.
- Technical understanding of body in white, vehicle structure to anticipate customers needs and values for customer.
- Develops, supports and executes customer roadmaps, steers profitable growth.
- Identify key Decsion makers and built relationship with cutomers and suppliers focus engineering centers.
- Collaborates closely with Technical Team/Marketing/Sales/Kam to steer activities.
- Analyes and builts deifferent future scenarios to create new paths of business.
- Steers and enroles new products launches at customers.
Benefits
- Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
- Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time, flexible & hybrid work policies (depending on role), and vacation buy / sell program
- Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
- Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
- Career Growth: diverse national and international growth opportunities, access to thousands of skills development courses, and tuition reimbursement
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
Industry
Chemical Manufacturing
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
