Head of Sustainability

Adhesive Technologies Sustainability Singapore Full Time Regular
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About this Position

The Head of Sustainability is responsible for making sustainability a growth driver and differentiator for Henkel Electronics. You will define and lead the sustainability strategy, roadmap, and priorities, translating customer and market requirements into innovation, portfolio, and commercial actions. This includes reducing raw material and product carbon footprints, enabling circular value creation for electronics customers, and advancing responsible chemistry across the portfolio.
You will build sustainability capabilities across the organization, drives customer and market engagement through thought leadership, influence senior stakeholders, and represent Henkel in key industry associations and external forums. Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Strategy, and Product Development, you will translate sustainability into customer value, competitive differentiation, and business growth 

What you´ll do

Sustainability Strategy & Growth

  • Develop and steer the Electronics sustainability strategy, targets, roadmap and growth agenda.
  • Translate sustainability opportunities into customer value propositions, innovation priorities and sustainable portfolio choices.
  • Embed sustainability into business planning, product development and go-to-market activities with Marketing, Sales and Innovation.

Customer & Market Engagement

  • Lead sustainability discussions with key customers and partners, including senior top-to-top engagements.
  • Support global Sales teams in customer meetings as a credible sustainability advisor and business partner.
  • Shape customer-facing communication, marketing materials, lighthouse presentations and external narratives.

Portfolio, Product & Value Chain Impact

  • Analyze formulas, raw materials and packaging solutions to identify improvement opportunities across the portfolio.
  • Partner with Product Development, Marketing and Supply Chain to embed sustainability into product and commercial roadmaps.
  • Apply knowledge of carbon footprint, circular economy, recycling and packaging sustainability to business decisions.

Stakeholder Influence & External Representation

  • Represent the Electronics business unit in external sustainability forums and with relevant industry stakeholders.
  • Collaborate with corporate sustainability experts, consultants, suppliers and partners to strengthen sustainability leadership.
  • Mobilize global teams across functions and cultures, leading through influence without direct authority.

What makes you a good fit

  • Strategic, structured thinker able to convert sustainability trends into business opportunities.
  • Strong executive presence, verbal communication and customer-facing presentation skills.
  • Commercially minded and execution-oriented; balances strategic ambition with operational delivery.
  • Ability to influence without authority and mobilize resources across cultures, functions and geographies.
  • Knowledge of carbon footprint, circular economy, recycling, packaging and product sustainability principles.
  • Fluent English required; Mandarin Chinese is a plus.
  • High ownership, independent working style, passion for sustainability and change management capability.

Some perks of joining Henkel

  • Flexible work scheme with flexible hours, hybrid work model, and work from anywhere policy for up to 30 days per year
  • Diverse national and international growth opportunities
  • Global wellbeing standards with health and preventive care programs
  • Gender-neutral parental leave for a minimum of 8 weeks
  • Employee Share Plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares
  • Outpatient Medical and Specialist Coverage for employees and eligible dependents
  • Life, Hospital, Personal Accident Insurance Coverage
  • Flexible Benefits covering Dental, Vaccination, Eye screenings etc for employees and eligible dep
  • Access to company products at discounted price

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.

JOB ID: 26098693

Job Locations: Singapore

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À propos de Henkel

En nous appuyant sur un solide héritage de près de 150 ans, nous ouvrons la voie pour réimaginer et améliorer la vie au quotidien. Aujourd'hui et pour les générations à venir. Grâce à des marques et des technologies innovantes et durables, et grâce à nos équipes dans le monde entier. Henkel détient des positions de leader dans les activités industrielles et grand public : Notre portefeuille comprend des produits de soins capillaires, des cosmétiques, des lessives, des adoucissant ainsi que des adhésifs, des produits d'étanchéité et des revêtements fonctionnels renommés.

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FAQ

Oui – il vous suffit de compléter votre profil en ligne. Vous pourrez ensuite postuler pour plusieurs postes.

Oui, s'il vous plaît. Henkel étant un groupe international, vous travaillerez avec des collègues issus du monde entier et l'anglais est donc la langue officielle de notre entreprise. En règle générale, il est conseillé de postuler dans la langue de l'offre.

Chaque poste à pourvoir est unique, et mener à bien le processus est important pour vous comme pour nous. Nous voulons être sûrs que nous travaillerons bien ensemble. Nous fournirons des retours aux candidats tout au long du processus.

Oui, c'est même une caractéristique de Henkel: nos employés sont polyvalents et mobiles. Cela contribue à la grande réussite mondiale de notre entreprise.
Notre philosophie « Triple deux » va dans ce sens: vous pourrez acquérir une expérience dans au moins deux fonctions, deux pays différents et deux secteurs d'activités. Nous appliquons cette philosophie car nous pensons qu'occuper différents postes, dans différents domaines et dans nos différentes branches est bénéfique pour votre évolution personnelle et vous permet de mieux comprendre Henkel en tant qu'entreprise mondiale.

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