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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Team Lead Pricing & Product Management Packaging NAMx
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Team Lead Pricing & Product Management Packaging NAMx
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<span>About this Position
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 What makes you a good fit. 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?
What you´ll do
Ready to join a great international marketing team as a regional team lead for product management and strategic pricing? As team lead for product management and strategic pricing you will lead the regional product-and strategic pricing managers in NAMx (US, Canada and Mexico) for within the Packaging Adhesives unit.
- Manage the full product lifecycle strategy. Manage customer- supplier- and regulatory driven changes. Drive for customer satisfaction
- Facilitate introduction of new products developed through our Innovation Teams key development programs. Coordinate all tasks related to set-up within our organization and systems
- Develop and execute a product plan and portfolio strategy for the regional APP SBU within NAMx, in line with the business plans and global technology portfolio strategies, in order to accomplish SBU financial goals. Align with senior leadership
- Drive programs to reduce product costs (raw material, operating, freight & warehousing, complexity reduction, reformulations) and to establish and attain target processing cost through collaboration with Purchasing, Operations, Supply Chain, Product Development, driving for optimum product line profitability
- Manage security of raw material supply and allocation of raw materials, as well participate in the monitoring and management of product margins (raws relative to pricing action) through collaboration with Purchasing, Operations, Pricing Management
- Responsibility to develop and steer pricing excellence and governance to capture optimal share of value
- Drive pricing performance, manage pricing processes and ensure pricing governance within your region, in close collaboration with other functions such as local sales, marketing and finance
- Pro-actively develop and support regional product price guidance incl. raw material pass-through (cost-based) and value selling
- Drive value-based pricing mindset within the SBU (Sub-Business Unit) and realization of pricing targets. Support to build-up of competitive intelligence on pricing
- Deploy and implement pricing tools, processes and ensure broad adoption
- Own and steer (cross SBU) transformational initiatives on pricing, in collaboration with the central pricing team
What makes you a good fit
- Successfully completed a university degree in economics is required. Preferably a master’s in marketing and/or MBA. Bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering, or related technical/scientific discipline is advantageous
- Ability to lead and manage a team of four
- Proficiency in English is a must. Spanish language skills are desirable
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Product Line Management, Marketing, Product Development, Technical Customer Service or related experience is required
- Minimum 5 years of professional experience in Strategic Pricing
- Adhesives, Packaging, Metal Packaging industry experience is preferred
- 3+ years commercial experience in target markets for the product line desirable
- Ability to travel 5% to visit Henkel facilities throughout US and Mexico
- Knowledge in (and/or) Hot Melt, Water based, Polyurethane, Acrylics is a plus
- Ability to prioritize/organize workload. Excellent communication and presentation skills
- Ability to build strong relationships and lead and influence to accomplish objectives through others
- Proficient with SAP and Data Warehouse systems is desirable
The salary for this role is $100,000.00 - $150,000.00. 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.
Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.
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! All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other legally protected characteristics. We welcome all applications.
JOB ID: 25075544
Job Locations: United States, NJ, Bridgewater, NJ
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Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English – should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company you will be working with colleagues from all over the world and English is our official company language. Generally, the ‘rule’ is: please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
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Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
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