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Henkel holds leading positions in both industrial and consumer businesses: Our portfolio includes well-known hair care products, laundry detergents, fabric softeners as well as adhesives, sealants, and functional coatings.
Senior Territory Sales Manager-Building Industry
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<strong><span>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 your skills. Grow within our future-led businesses, all to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.
This position is with our Consumer and Construction Business Unit – where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. Dare to make an impact at Henkel.
What you´ll do:
- Own and manage sales of key and regional accounts in territory, delivering against annual sales and profitability targets within Building Industry (furniture and building components including insulation and roofing)
- Develop and execute a regional business plan aligned with Industrial and Construction growth objectives.
- Identify growth opportunities and develop new business opportunities across building industry segments.
- Build strong relationships with technical, operations, and procurement stakeholders at customer to position Henkel as a strategic partner.
- Conduct regular customer visits to identify needs and deliver value-added adhesive solutions.
- Apply a consultative, value-based selling approach, including opportunity qualification and value quantification.
- Support and participate in RFQ/RFP processes and customer business reviews.
- Introduce new technologies and applications aligned with customer production and performance requirements.
- Work closely internally with Customer Service, Application Engineering, Marketing, Product Management, and Supply Chain to deliver customer solutions and support growth.
- Maintain and manage a robust sales pipeline, using CRM tools to track opportunities and forecasts.
- Identify, pursue, and close new sales opportunities in the region, with a strong focus on hunting for new business and identifying customers that align with target profile
- Execute marketing programs and regional initiatives aligned with go-to-market strategies
- Provide regular updates on performance, key wins, and risks to leadership.
What makes you a good fit:
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, communications, chemistry or a related field.
- 7+ years of industrial or technical B2B sales experience, ideally in adhesives or building materials.
- Demonstrated success in territory growth, account management, and value-based selling.
- Ability to engage both plant-level and mid-level decision makers, with growing exposure to strategic account discussions.
- Excellent communication, negotiation, and organizational skills.
- Self-driven, with strong time and project management skills and proficiency in CRM tools.
- Willingness to travel within the region and occasionally across North America (~30–50%).
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 range for this role is $98,000.00 and $115,000.00. This range represents the good faith minimum and maximum wages the Company reasonably expects to offer for this role at the time of posting. In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for incentive pay or other forms of compensation, as applicable. The Company also offers a comprehensive benefits package as described above. Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience, education, training, and work location. This posting is intended to comply with all applicable state and local pay transparency laws.
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.
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. 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: 26096922
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Yes – simply fill out your profile in our online application system. Once your online profile is complete, you can apply for multiple positions.
The job offer is written in English – should I write my application in English as well?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company you will be working with colleagues from all over the world and English is our official company language. Generally, the ‘rule’ is: please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. This helps to support the company on a broad, global level.
Our “Triple Two” philosophy promotes this expectation, by allowing you to work in at least two different roles, in two different business areas and two different countries. The reason behind this philosophy is that we believe working in different roles, business units and functions is good for your personal development and improves your understanding of Henkel as a global company.
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