Product Line Manager Consumer Goods (d/f/m)

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

Dare to make an impact?

• Develop and execute regional product (line) strategy in line with technology strategy
• Analyze portfolio using Henkel processes and tools
• Manage regional product portfolio and consequently product portfolio complexity
• Accompany product introductions and coordinate with S&OP and innovation team;
• Steer product phase out process cross SBU for products under PLM ownership
• Coordinate product localizations across regions
• Manage and reduce complexity
• Provide input to manufacturing and purchasing on manufacturing and supply chain needs regionally
• Manage ad-hoc crises such as raw material shortages and drive proactively risk mitigation to avoid supply disruption
• Manage and optimize regional product profitability, drive regional COGS projects in line with Global Prod. & Techn. Mgmt Manages master data processes and data maintenance

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Chemistry, Economics or Business Administration
• Minimum 5 years work experience in relevant field
• Experienced in a multinational environment within the Consumer Goods industry, i.e. Packaging, Labelling and Personal Hygiene
• Strong stakeholder management as well as excellent communication and presentation skills including the ability to convince on different management level up to senior management
• Strong analytical skills for fact and data base decision making to realize measurable results
• Able to use standard tools like e.g. MS Office, Power BI, SAP
• Fluent English language skills

At Henkel, we come from a broad range of backgrounds, perspectives, and life experiences. We believe the uniqueness of all our employees is the power in us. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.