Manager Platform Engineering
About The Position
The Manager Platform Engineering position is within Henkel’s Adhesive Technologies business unit, which provides adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings. The role focuses on strategic engineering and platform management for customers and suppliers, particularly in automotive applications. It involves frequent customer and supplier visits and travel, approximately 50% of the time. The position requires technical understanding of Body in White and vehicle structures to anticipate customer needs and deliver value. The manager develops and executes customer roadmaps, steers profitable growth, builds relationships with key decision makers, collaborates across technical, marketing, sales, and key account teams, analyzes future business scenarios, and leads product launches at customers.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
- 7–10 years of proven experience 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 and a proactive, goal-oriented approach to working independently.
- Collaborative, team-oriented mindset focused on shared success.
- Clear and effective communication skills across all levels of the organization.
- Flexibility and adaptability to changing environments, priorities, and global contexts.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in automotive or industrial sectors.
Responsibilities
- Travel frequently to visit customers and suppliers, approximately 50% of the time.
- Apply technical understanding of Body in White and vehicle structures to anticipate customer needs and deliver value.
- Develop, support, and execute customer roadmaps and steer profitable growth.
- Identify key decision makers and build relationships with customers and suppliers, with a focus on engineering centers.
- Collaborate closely with technical, marketing, sales, and key account management teams to steer activities.
- Analyze and build different future scenarios to create new business opportunities.
- Steer and enroll new product launches at customers.
Benefits
- Affordable medical, dental, vision, and wellbeing plans starting on day 1.
- Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday, and volunteer time.
- Flexible and hybrid work policies, depending on role.
- Vacation buy/sell program.
- 401(k) matching.
- Employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares.
- Annual performance bonus.
- Service awards.
- Student loan reimbursement.
- 12-week gender-neutral parental leave, with up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth.
- Fertility support.
- Adoption and surrogacy reimbursement.
- Discounted child and elderly care.
- Scholarships.
- Diverse national and international growth opportunities.
- Access to thousands of skills development courses.
- Tuition reimbursement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
