Category Manager

About the role

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability, and collaboration. With trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have opportunities to explore new paths and grow. This position is within our Adhesive Technologies business unit, where we empower our people to transform industries and provide customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.

Responsibilities

• Strategically manage specific product categories, ensuring portfolio health across key metrics including P&L.
• Develop category solutions that enhance end-user work by understanding their application needs.
• Lead new product introduction and pricing strategies.
• Assess the competitive landscape and partner with Product Management and Global colleagues to improve speed to market.
• Uncover new areas of growth for specific categories using market data, industry trends, and end-user insights.
• Develop and maintain relationships with key departments.
• Maintain working knowledge of Brand goals, strategies, and customer initiatives to quickly assess project requirements.
• Foster an open and enthusiastic communication style with internal customers to drive customer focus, flexibility, and responsiveness.
• Proactively identify opportunities to drive change and improve both process and project outcomes.

Requirements

• 5 years of experience in Marketing, Product Management, Category Management, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree in business or a related field preferred, or equivalent experience.
• Marketing or Category Management experience in the building materials industry, especially within the roofing sector, is a plus.
• High energy, motivated individual with a strong sense of personal accountability.
• Strong interpersonal skills and a team-oriented mindset.
• Strong analytical and communication skills.

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 and hybrid work policies (depending on role); 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 and 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.

Pay

The salary range for this role is $80,000.00 to $100,000.00. This range represents the good-faith minimum and maximum wages the Company reasonably expects to offer for this role at the time of posting. In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for incentive pay or other forms of compensation, as applicable. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience, education, training, and work location.