Regional Resilience Manager

About this Position

At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow.

This position is with our Consumer Brands business unit – where we empower our employees to bring the best Laundry & Home Care and Hair products to people around the world.

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

• Ensure supply continuity and manage all critical shortages and force majeures to avoid out-of-stocks and business impact on NES operations.
• Support sourcing categories in elevating contractual agreements to higher levels of maturity and standardization regarding risk mitigation, operational performance, and supply chain optimization (MOQ, Incoterms, Lead Time).
• Ensure consistent global documentation and reporting on supply disruptions and defined supply resilience KPIs in the region.
• Enhance the use of digital tools and BI dashboards for supplier performance (supplier evaluations, OTIF), supply disruption monitoring (FM Bot, CRISP), and proactive risk mitigation, including Tier-1 data (DDF).
• Lead local supplier scouting in close collaboration with sourcing teams to strengthen sourcing flexibility and agility.
• Ensure Implementation and monitoring of Business Continuity Plans (BCP) for suppliers following strategies by the sourcing team.
• Additional Responsibilities – Quality, Compliance & Audit Management:
  Serve as the Quality Manager within
• Procurement, ensuring supplier compliance with internal standards, external regulations, and industry certifications.
• Develop and maintain Supplier Quality Assurance (SQA) frameworks, including supplier qualification, onboarding, and performance re-assessment processes.
• Lead and coordinate internal audits across the supplier base to ensure adherence to company quality systems, GMP, and sustainability requirements.
• Maintain and update compliance documentation, including supplier quality agreements, audit reports, certificates, and traceability records.
• Partner with cross-functional teams (Quality, Regulatory, and Supply Chain) to resolve supplier non-conformances and ensure continuous improvement.
• Establish governance routines for compliance tracking and reporting within procurement, ensuring visibility and accountability across categories and regions.
• Promote a culture of quality and compliance across procurement teams through training, communication, and process standardization initiatives.

• Bachelor’s degree required
• >10 years’ experience in procurement or digital roles ideally with commercial responsibilities
• >2 years’ experience in global commercial roles
• Source-to-Pay consumer products FMCG customer insight global sourcing materials customer service procurement purchasing supplier evaluation strategic sourcing supply chain management innovation
• Excellent people and project management skills, proven change management strengths, and strong written and verbal communication skills with internal and external executive level stakeholders

• 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 $120000.00 - $140000.00. 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.