APAC Application Engineering Lead — Flexible Hybrid

Henkel; Jakarta Pusat; Hybrid; IDR 700,000,000 - 1,100,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hours

Hybrid/remote policy

Global growth

Wellbeing program

Parental leave

Share plan

Insurance

Annual checkup

Dependent benefits

Product discount

Job summary

Henkel in Indonesia is seeking a Senior APAC Application Engineering Lead to drive the regional team and interface with Product Development and Innovation. You will build and lead application centers across APAC, delivering value through customer-centric innovations and strong collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and cross-functional teams.

The role requires a Bachelor/Master in engineering or related field with at least 10 years of experience, fluent English, and a proven track record in

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Engineering, Science, Business Administration, Marketing, or a related field
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience
• Proven people leadership experience, with a strong track record of building, developing, and leading diverse, high-performing teams
• Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Strong strategic thinking, commercial acumen, and analytical problem-solving capabilities
• Demonstrated ability in working with a cross functional Sales/Product Development/Marketing team is highly desirable
• Fluent in English; additional language skills are an advantage

Responsibilities

• Drive development of an end-to-end customer experience from identifying new value propositions to enhancing customer service
• Lead Application Centers across the region to deliver sustainable and innovative solutions, ensuring highest degree of customer satisfaction
• Use market and customer insights to identify evolving industry trends, unmet needs, and new application opportunities across APAC region for the Packaging and Labelling, Personal Hygiene, Sports & Fashion market segments
• Drive stakeholder alignment across end users, internal teams, and cross-functional departments to support execution and customer-focused outcomes
• Develop and evaluate KPIs, leveraging digital tools and data-driven decisions to drive innovation, continuous improvement, operational excellence, and team performance
• Strengthen Application Engineering capabilities, processes, trainings and safety standards, while representing APAC in the global Application Engineering community
• Responsible for customer technical trainings via appropriate formats: academies, webinars, at customer site, at Henkel facilities, etc.
• Leverage customer feedback to align global/regional SBU projects in creating joint value
• Collaborate closely with other teams, such as Sales, Marketing, Product Development and Innovation

Skills

People leadership

Problem-solving

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

English proficiency

Education

Bachelor/Master in Engineering/Science/Business

Job description

Henkel in Indonesia is seeking a Senior APAC Application Engineering Lead to drive the regional team and interface with Product Development and Innovation. You will build and lead application centers across APAC, delivering value through customer-centric innovations and strong collaboration with Sales, Marketing, and cross-functional teams.

The role requires a Bachelor/Master in engineering or related field with at least 10 years of experience, fluent English, and a proven track record in