APAC Head of Application Engineering & Innovation

Henkel; Indonesia; Hybrid; IDR 2,000,000,000 - 2,800,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work scheme

Hybrid work model

Global wellbeing standards

Parental leave policy

Employee Share Plan

Comprehensive insurance

Job summary

Henkel in Indonesia is seeking a regional leader to head APAC Application Engineering for Adhesives Technologies. You will drive a team of Application Engineer Managers to support the commercial unit and collaborate with Product Development and Innovation.

This role emphasizes customer-centric innovation, KPI development, and cross-functional alignment across Sales, Marketing, and R&D, with a focus on packaging, personal care segments, and fashion. Fluent English required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Science, Business Administration, Marketing, or 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.
• 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

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Strategic thinking

Analytical thinking

Communication

English fluency

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Science, Business Administration, Marketing, or related field

Job description

Henkel in Indonesia is seeking a regional leader to head APAC Application Engineering for Adhesives Technologies. You will drive a team of Application Engineer Managers to support the commercial unit and collaborate with Product Development and Innovation.

This role emphasizes customer-centric innovation, KPI development, and cross-functional alignment across Sales, Marketing, and R&D, with a focus on packaging, personal care segments, and fashion. Fluent English required.