Global Manager Business Development Ecommerce (d/f/m)

Henkel; Düsseldorf; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work scheme with hybrid model

Global growth opportunities

Health and wellbeing programs

Parental leave

Job summary

Henkel seeks a senior eCommerce leader to define global marketplace strategy across marketplaces and owned platforms, translating priorities into regional growth levers. You will establish live criteria, success metrics, and scalable playbooks for new launches.

You will incubate new initiatives, coordinate setup, and enable regional teams, while governing global standards in content quality and marketing performance. Available in Düsseldorf and other regions.

Qualifications

• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Digital Business or related field.
• 5+ years of experience in eCommerce management, strategy or development.
• Proven track record in driving marketplace growth across multiple markets, platforms, customer journeys or business units.

Responsibilities

• Define the global marketplace strategy across pure-players marketplaces and owned platforms.
• Establish go-live criteria, success metrics, best practices and scalable playbooks for new platforms and portfolio launches.
• Incubate new eCommerce initiatives by coordinating setup, enabling regional teams and preparing structured handover process.
• Govern global eCommerce standards across content quality, execution excellence and marketing investment performance.
• Identify and prioritize growth opportunities across platforms, markets and customer segments.
• Act as global counterpart for strategic eCommerce partners, ensuring commercial alignment, consistent platform engagement and cross-functional execution.
• Strengthen digital shelf excellence, brand protection, search visibility and AI/GEO-ready product content across the marketplace and owned-platform customer journeys.

Skills

eCommerce management

Strategy development

Data-driven

Analytical mindset

Education

University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Digital Business or related field

Tools

GenAI

LLMs

Job description

About this Position

What you´ll do

• Define the global marketplace strategy across pure-players marketplaces and owned platforms, translating eCommerce priorities into clear regional focus and growth levers
• Establish go-live criteria, success metrics, best practices and scalable playbooks for new platforms and portfolio launches
• Incubate new eCommerce initiatives by coordinating setup, enabling regional teams and preparing structured handover process
• Govern global eCommerce standards across content quality, execution excellence and marketing investment performance
• Identify and prioritize growth opportunities across platforms, markets and customer segments
• Act as global counterpart for strategic eCommerce partners, ensuring commercial alignment, consistent platform engagement and cross-functional execution
• Strengthen digital shelf excellence, brand protection, search visibility and AI/GEO-ready product content across the marketplace and owned-platform customer journeys

What makes you a good fit

• University degree in Business Administration, Economics, Digital Business or related field
• 5+ years of experience in eCommerce management, strategy or development
• Proven track record in driving marketplace growth across multiple markets, platforms, customer journeys or business units
• Strong understanding of eCommerce business models, including 1P/3P dynamics, pure-players, and owned platforms and solid knowledge of eCommerce KPIs across traffic, conversion, content performance, digital shelf and retail media
• Understanding of emerging AI technologies, including GenAI, LLMs, GEO, and their application across eCommerce content, search visibility and customer journeys
• Strong analytical mindset with ability to translate performance data into global priorities and scalable frameworks and entrepreneurial and proactive working style with strong ownership mentality
• Excellent English skills; additional European languages are a plus

This position is available in Duesseldorf, Barcelona and Singapore.

Some perks of joining Henkel

• Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
• Diverse national and international growth opportunities
• Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
• Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
• Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
• Company Pension Plan 100% financed by Henkel
• MEGA Preventive Health Insurance
• CareFlex Supplementary Care Insurance
• Mobility offer: My Henkel Bike and Jobticket

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, generations and disabilities. If there are any specific accommodations or adjustments you require for the interview process or your on-site appointment, please inform us, and we'll do our best to accommodate your requests.