Head of Application Engineering EU South

About this Position

At Henkel, you can build on a strong legacy and leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses to reimagine and improve life every day. If you love challenging the status quo, join our community of over 47.000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Adhesive Technologies help to transform entire industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. With our trusted brands, our cutting-edge technologies and our disruptive solutions, you will have countless opportunities to explore new paths and develop What makes you a good fit. Grow within our future-led businesses, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

What you´ll do

• Owe paper key accounts for complete Europe
• Optimize customer profitability by portfolio management & change in customer buying behavior
• Achieve highest level of ACE project pipeline closing rates to deliver and exceed country sales plans
• Develop and acquire talent with the highest level of application knowledge and customer experience to differentiate for the competition in the market
• Lead technical team of APP Southern Europe for business activities within the flexible packaging business, the paper markets
• Excute the team setup by deciding and addressing job roles and responsibilities within the team
• Actively prioritize setting and resource allocation
• Site leader for Zingonia AE lab with full responsibility for SHEQ
• Continuously advance AE operations, sharing best practices & execute APP strategy, special focus on KSIs
• Decide independently the type and scope of internal as well as external support/activities, including the introduction of new adhesive technologies into the market
• Technical interface between customers and the Henkel teams, including Sales, Marketing, BD, PD and other teams - leading highly professional communication
• Develop innovations and continuous improvement via data driven decisions and actions, in collaboration with other AE teams, PD, BD and external partners
• Develop technical content on products and applications to be shared in academies, trainings and published internally & externally
• Act as the EU regional expert for food safety, paper business with consulting into all other relevant functions in Europe
• Take responsibility for customer inquiries and complaints, writes technical statements and makes product recommendations
• Support customer projects of team members in critical cases

What makes you a good fit

• Master's Degree in Chemistry, Engineering, Business management or related fields
• Fluency in Italian and in English is mandatory
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Strong technical expertise
• Good knowledge of tools and applications related to packaging
• Willingness to travel up to 50% (in Italy, Greece, Spain, France)

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. Become part of the team and bring your uniqueness to us! We welcome all applications across different genders, origins, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, disabilities, and generations.