Head Of Strategic Supply Chain Transformation, Americas

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 50,000 pioneers around the globe. Our teams at Henkel Consumer Brands continuously drive the evolution in dynamic categories: Laundry & Home Care and Hair. With our trusted brands, including Persil and Schwarzkopf, 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.

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Your Role

Key responsibilities include supporting the development, coordination and execution of the organizational strategy and plan, stakeholder management, and communications. The Strategy Director must apply a structured methodology and support change management activities within the business, including the assessment of the overall impact, risk mitigation and impact to organizational structure, reporting, job changes, decision rights and resource planning. The Strategy Director analyzes and makes recommendation on matters related to organizational capability, structure, and operating strategy.

• Operating strategy includes the definition, planning and execution of a future ready supply network matching the overall business strategy
• Organizational structure critically evaluates the staffing of key functions and departments, to work closely with leadership and Human Resources on defining roles and responsibilities and to recommend changes aligned with our strategic goals.
• Organizational capability concerns resource management, including the development of annual resource plans, critical assessment of skills and requirements for key positions, and developing resource models to support the organization’s strategy in collaboration with Human Resources.
• Aligns the organization set up with strategy and establishes a consistent and transparent organization. The Strategy Director ensures consistency and collaboration throughout Supply Chain and manufacturing and manages the ongoing development of the Target Structure.

Tasks of the position:

• Develops and ensures roll-out of guidance and excellence for change activities (e.g. resource allocation, org. / operating model design) Responsible
• Manages or executes strategic (incl. M&A) and change projects, transformational initiatives Responsible
• Collaborates with top / senior management on all aspects of the organization’s business development policies and initiatives Responsible
• Drives process for global strategic resource allocation and org. design (Target Structure) Accountable
• Task Level of responsibility Percentage of the job facilitates / manages development and implementation of corporate, business and supply strategy Responsible
• Supports M&A projects Support
• Advances consistency and efficiency for Processes and Organization (Operating Model) Responsible
• Performs internal and external analysis / analysis of future scenarios to assess future business development Responsible

YOUR SKILLS

• Business analysis
• B.S. Required, Masters preferred
• Minimum 10 years Supply Chain experience
• Program management
• Resource management
• Strong financial acumen
• Project management
• Stakeholder management
• Project governance
• Supply chain optimization
• Manufacturing knowledge

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Henkel is an equal opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, and other legally protected characteristics.

The salary for this role is $196,000.00 - $260,000.00. 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.