Manager Platform Engineering

About this 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.

What You'll Do

• 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 decision makers and build relationships with customers and suppliers focus engineering centers.
• Collaborates closely with Technical Team/Marketing/Sales/Kam to steer activities.
• Analyzes and builds different future scenarios to create new paths of business.
• Steers and enrols new products launches at customers.

Qualifications

• 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.

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

Pay

The salary for this role is $120,000.00 - $135,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

Schedule

Flexible work schedule based on role and location.