Manager Platform Engineering

What you´ll do

• Frequent travel/visits to the customers and suppliers, around 50%.
• Technical understanding of body in white, vehicle structure to anticipate customers needs and values for customer.
• Develops, supports and executes customer roadmaps, steers profitable growth.
• Identify key Decsion makers and built relationship with cutomers and suppliers focus engineering centers.
• Collaborates closely with Technical Team/Marketing/Sales/Kam to steer activities.
• Analyes and builts deifferent future scenarios to create new paths of business.
• Steers and enroles new products launches at customers.

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering, Plastics Engineering, or a comparable technical field.
• Proven experience, 7-10 years, in strategic engineering or platform management roles, ideally in automotive or industrial sectors as well as sales experience.
• Strong technical understanding of Body in White and vehicle structural systems.
• Self-Motivation – Proactive and driven to achieve goals independently.
• Team Orientation – Collaborative mindset with a focus on shared success.
• Communication Skills – Clear and effective communicator across all levels of the organization.
• Flexibility – Adaptable to changing environments, priorities, and global contexts.

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 for this role is $120,000.00- $135,000.00. This is the range that we in good faith anticipate relying on when setting wages for this position. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range. This salary range may also be modified in the future.

Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.

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.

JOB ID: 25086818

Job Locations: United States, MI, Madison Heights, MI

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