National Business Manager-Target Beauty

Henkel • Minneapolis, MN

5d • Hybrid

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 Consumer Brands business unit – where we empower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hair products to people around the world. Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 5+ years of sales, account management, category management, or related CPG experience.
• Strong business, financial, and analytical acumen.
• Proven ability to influence customer decisions and drive business growth.
• Strong communication, presentation, and negotiation skills.
• Ability to work effectively across a matrixed organization and manage multiple priorities.
• Proficient in leveraging data, insights, and analytics to drive business decisions.

Nice To Haves

• Direct experience managing Target business strongly preferred.
• Established relationships within Target Beauty preferred.
• Experience in Beauty, Personal Care, Hair Care, or related consumer packaged goods categories preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the annual business plan to deliver Target sales, share, and profitability objectives.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with Target merchants and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Lead annual negotiations, line reviews, innovation sell-in, and business planning activities.
• Manage customer forecasting, trade investment, promotional planning, and overall account performance.
• Identify growth opportunities through assortment, merchandising, pricing, promotion, and digital shelf optimization.
• Partner with Marketing, Category Management, Finance, Supply Chain, and Shopper Marketing to deliver customer and company objectives.
• Utilize customer, syndicated, and shopper data to develop fact-based recommendations and selling stories.
• Monitor business performance, proactively addressing risks and capturing opportunities.
• Deliver strong execution across in-store and omnichannel initiatives.
• Provide clear, timely communication and leadership on customer priorities and business results.

Benefits

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time
• flexible & hybrid work policies (depending on role)
• vacation buy / sell program
• 401k 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 (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth)
• fertility support
• adoption & surrogacy reimbursement
• discounted child and elderly care
• scholarships
• diverse national and international growth opportunities
• access to thousands of skills development courses
• tuition reimbursement

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior