Head of Appl Eng & OnSite Representative

Henkel; Madison Heights (MI); On-site; USD 175,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Work-Life Balance

401k matching

Family support

Career growth opportunities

Job summary

Henkel, within the Adhesive Technologies unit, seeks a senior leader to head the regional Application Engineers team for Automotive OEMs. You will set strategic direction, coach managers, and drive performance across plants and technologies globally.

You will guide strategic technical guidance, foster leadership development, and collaborate with product development to ensure innovation aligns with business goals. This onsite role requires travel and leadership excellence.

Qualifications

• Leadership experience at director level leading large, cross-functional teams.
• Ability to guide strategy and innovation within adhesives, coatings, or related industries.
• Proven track record of influencing global and regional strategies.

Responsibilities

• Lead the regional AE team for Automotive OEMs, setting strategic direction and empowering teams to drive performance across technologies and plants.
• Provide strategic oversight for technical guidance to key accounts and focus on continuous improvement.
• Drive technical strategy and collaboration with development teams to align with business goals.
• Travel 20–50% to support high-level business needs.

Skills

Leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Strategy development

Executive communication

Global collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in process or chemical engineering

Job description

About this Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping thefuture through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trustedbrands like Persil®, ’all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and ourcutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore newpaths and grow.

This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit –where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customerswith a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functionalcoatings.

Dare to learn new skills, advance inyour career and make an impact at Henkel.

What you´ll do

• Lead the regional AE team for Automotive OEMs, setting strategic direction and empowering Application Engineers & OnSite Representatives and their Managers to drive performance across all technologies and plants of key accountsFocus on coaching and mentoring senior managers and engineers as well as identifying and developing future leaders in the overall organization
• Foster the development and personal growth of all team members, while providing a framework for continuous business and technical related trainings for all OnSite Representatives across all technologies relevant to the Automotive OEM business
• Provide strategic oversight for technical guidance to key accounts at all customer levels, while focusing on continuous improvement and leveraging best practices globally/regionally
• Drive technical strategy rather than day-to-day troubleshooting
• Lead efforts in setting the framework for value-added visits, such as audits, troubleshooting, and demonstrations, but delegate the execution to your leadership team
• Focus your own engagement on regional customer relationships and escalated strategic issues
• Lead the collaboration with application equipment and product & technology development teams at a strategic level, ensuring innovation aligns with business goals
• Champion customer feedback and KPI results at an executive level and ensure your managers execute process improvements
• Oversee laboratory workflow and prioritization to ensure seamless collaboration with development teams to ensure technical customer satisfaction
• Leverage the use of AI tools for the purpose of increasing organizational efficiency to enable deeper analysis, benchmarking and root cause analysis to enable predictive interventions

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor's degree in process or chemical engineering
• Extensive experience (10+years) leading large, cross-functional teams at a director level, including managing senior leaders and influencing global/regional strategies.
• Deep technical knowledge, with the ability to guide strategy and innovation within adhesives, coatings, or related industries, while delegating tactical problem-solving to your senior team.
• Proven ability to work cross-functionally and globally, setting the direction and aligning strategies at an SBU and total overall business level.
• Success in developing leadership capabilities within your team and fostering technical expertise at a senior level.
• Ability to influence global and regional strategies, communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, and ensure alignment.
• Capable of managing a wide range of responsibilities and traveling as needed (20-50%) to support high-level business needs.
• This role is anonsite role - selected candidate will work in the office 5 days per weekunless traveling for business

Some benefits of joining Henkel

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time, flexible & hybrid work policies (depending on role), and vacation buy / sell program
• Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
• Career Growth: diverse national and international growth opportunities, access to thousands of skills development courses, and tuition reimbursement

The salary range for this role is $175,000.00 and $200,000.00. This range represents the good‑faith minimum and maximum wages the Company reasonably expects to offer for this role at the time of posting. In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for incentive pay or other forms of compensation, as applicable. The Company also offers a comprehensive benefits package as described above. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience, education, training, and work location. This posting is intended to comply with all applicable state and local pay transparency laws.

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. Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.