Manager Organizational Development | Operations & Supply Chain

At Henkel, you can be a game changer and craft your career. Unleash your entrepreneurial spirit by bringing your ideas to life within a global team. Our leading brands and technologies, along with our high-performing businesses will provide you with countless opportunities to develop your skills and explore new paths. Your career at Henkel will contribute to a more sustainable future, while you grow within our vibrant, diverse culture of trust and belonging. If you're up for challenging the status quo, join our team of pioneers and make your mark on the future with us.

Do you dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

• Join the global Operations & Supply Chain team of Adhesive Technologies and shape it into a future-ready organization.
• Lead the development and execution of organizational change programs based on developments inside and outside the company, with a focus on people development, capability building and strategic workforce planning.
• Identify the capabilities needed to meet the current and emerging business needs of the Operations & Supply Chain function. Evaluate current capabilities, identify gaps, and prioritize development activities.
• Lead the detailed design and delivery of skill-based development programs and related transformation, ensuring integration with HR processes, building management commitment and using structured change management methodologies to drive acceptance and embed mindset of skill-based development across the organization.
• Motivate the organization to develop their capabilities and fulfill their personal potential. Build capabilities elsewhere in the organization through mentoring and other informal methods.
• Develop the newly created global Management Traineeship for the Operations & Supply Chain organization to a harmonized best-in-class talent acquisition program, via effective collaboration and strong indirect leadership to the team of regional program managers.
• Act as subject matter expert, consulting internal stakeholders on organizational excellence topics as well as establishing and improving related methodology, standards and tools.
• Collaborate in an interdisciplinary and international environment with numerous stakeholders (Operations & Supply Chain leaders, HR, Strategy) across the global organization.

YOUR SKILLS

• Master’s degree in business-related studies with excellent results, e.g., in business administration, economics, organizational behavior, psychology or similar.
• Minimum 7 years of professional experience in an international environment, ideally some time spent in a leading consultancy or in an inhouse consulting unit / business strategy role of a global corporation, international experience preferred.
• Proven track record as Project Manager in implementing projects in complex multi-stakeholder environments, certification in (Agile) Project Management (e.g., Scrum) is a plus.
• Strong ability to drive topics end-to-end from strategic concept through project phase to implementation and continuous improvement mode.
• Strong strategic and analytical capabilities.
• Great team player with a self-motivated, creative, passionate and open-minded personality
• Ability to comfortably interact with all levels in the organization and work across multiple cultures effectively.
• Proficient knowledge of PowerPoint and Excel
• Fluent English language skills are required.

Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to gender, origin, culture, mindset, generation, disability, religion and sexual orientation.