Quality ‏(Control) Excellence Manager

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 your skills. 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.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

• Global Center of Excellence Member Quality for Adhesives Technologies
• Subject Matter Expert in Quality and in implementing Quality and Zero Defect thinking in large scale company environments.
• Leads strategic initiatives globally to improve and develops capabilities within the Quality organization.
• Develops knowledge, disrupts the domain, implements, and sustains new way of working, provides expertise, and increases organization capabilities.
• Take a lead role to the activities required to execute the global Quality Center of Excellence mandate.
• Provide support, assistance, and advice to the regional Quality teams by providing individual expert Quality knowledge and by leveraging and connecting the global Quality network.
• Design, develop and improve Global standards, Quality methods, practices, tools.
• Develop next level capabilities, infrastructure, and innovations.
• Ensure the effectiveness of existing processes cross-regionally and consistent implementation.
• Sustain global adherence.
• Take an active role in the global Quality strategy definition, associated projects and targets to improve.
• Support strategic initiatives from needs identification through design and global implementation until final effectiveness check.
• Drive globalization of best practices across Region and harmonization.
• Lead community of practices to foster best practices sharing and collective knowledge development.
• Support definition, design and implementation of required extensions, enhancements, and maintenance of IT/ digital tools relevant for Adhesive Technologies’ Quality specific needs.

YOUR SKILLS

• Master’s degree in chemistry or chemical engineering, engineering, business administration, data science or related discipline.
• We explicitly encourage applications of non-standard profiles with experience/exposure in Quality-relevant fields below 8+ years of work experience
• 3+ years experience in Quality or PD 2+ years of international experience (preferred) Experience in Quality (test) methods, developing, evaluating, implementing, harmonizing.
• Project Management, Presentation & Training, Data literacy, data analysis
• Problem solving, Root-cause-analysis, logical thinking Lean, continuous improvement methods
• Statistical methods SQC, SPC, MSA SAP data structure, Quality BI, ADAP Quality control, test methods, quality lab management, equipment
• Fluent in English, verbal and written (the CoE is global) (additional language is a plus) Collaboration, Leading/coaching, Convincing & influencing
• Solving conflicts, Agility, Enthusiasm and creativity
• Interpersonal communication in various media and to various levels of internal and external organizations

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.