Henkel – A Brand like a Friend – This claim underlines our promise to make people’s lives easier, better and more beautiful with our brands and technologies.

Henkel, headquartered in Düsseldorf / Germany, has about 52,000 employees worldwide and counts among the most internationally aligned German-based companies in the global marketplace. People in approximately 125 countries around the world trust in brands and technologies from Henkel. Henkel is organized into three globally operating business sectors:

•    Laundry & Home Care (e.g. Persil)
•    Cosmetics / Toiletries (e.g. Taft)
•    Adhesives Technology (e.g. Loctite, Pritt)

Below are just some of the benefits you will receive if you choose a career with Henkel.

You will benefit from all that we have to offer as a large and successful company. You will be working in close contact with leaders of competence and know-how, using the latest management tools - you'll be watching and learning from a great mix of other people, backed up by a very focused training to develop the appropriate technical, interpersonal and business/ management tools. You'll gain a thorough professional grounding in a dynamic and creative business, with a recognized market leader - and above all: you'll have fun! All in all, Henkel is a great place to develop and perfect your professional skills.

Henkel is truly unique in the spread of our business units and our international locations, products, brands, people, and job roles.  Henkel is a company that serves consumers and business customers alike.  This variety opens up a wide range of options as well as the chance to work in several different fields. It is the ultimate way to find your own career path and define where you want to be in the future.

No matter if you are pursuing a career within research & development or marketing, corporate engineering or logistics & purchasing, IT services or finance, Henkel has a lot  to offer.  What you need to know is that we believe in individuality and seek personalities who are willing to pursue common goals.  The manner in which you pursue these goals and face up to challenges will depend on your flexibility. We will provide you with ample opportunities. You will have the freedom to seize them. However, the way your career at Henkel will turn out is ultimately up to you.

Seize Opportunities

For us, recruiting and developing the right people is a win-win situation. You benefit from all that we have to offer as a large and successful company, while we gain a great deal from your contribution. From your very first day at Henkel you will be given responsibility in one of our business units or functions and have a direct effect on our performance. Your career at Henkel centers on the freedom of choice to experience different divisions, functions and countries.

As an internationally focused company we make sure that our employees build a strong and wide sense about business. So we have developed the "Triple 2" approach - 2 countries, 2 divisions, 2 functions. During the course of your career, you will have the opportunity to get to know the company from different points of view. This kind of broad experience is invaluable since it enables you to see the bigger picture.

We actively encourage this kind of all-round exposure to the business - through initiatives like job rotation - as it not only helps you to grow as an individual, but also aids in the circulation of the best ideas and practices throughout the company.

You'll gain a thorough professional grounding in a dynamic and creative business with a recognized market leader - and above all: you'll have fun! All of this makes Henkel an excellent place to develop and perfect your professional skills.  Are you ready to seize the possibilities?

Seek Excellence

In line with Henkel’s Visions & Values (“It’s our employees who make us successful”) we are committed to a process of continuing education that will help our employees keep up with new and growing challenges.  For our employees, continuing education at Henkel connotes both advancements and demands. We believe that our staying up-to-date depends squarely on our employees.

On the one hand, continuing training at Henkel means sharing visions, values, guidelines and standards that lead to a consistent understanding of the Henkel culture.  On the other hand, continuing training means systematically identifying strengths and weaknesses - while keeping in mind the specific demands of the particular job - as well as targeted development in those areas with room for improvement. Moreover, continuing development of our employees includes setting demanding but achievable targets as well as regular feedback on job performance. These talks aim at finding strengths and weaknesses and identifying areas for improvement and development.

For the optimal development of our employees at Henkel we need executives who are aware of their responsibility and do not shirk their own development. We regularly assess the strengths and weaknesses of the leadership skills of our executives by their colleagues in order to maintain these skills at a constantly high level.

Our goal is to bring development in line with demand. To that end we offer a large variety of seminars. Apart from that it is up to you to take the initiative and assume responsibility for your own development. Seize the opportunities that we offer you because commitment and knowledge are the basic requirements for successful work.

The various courses we offer focus largely on specific areas of expert knowledge, IT and language skills, as well as leadership and management topics.

In order to achieve sustained quality we attach great importance to the evaluation of their contents and realization, and the trainers’ skills. The evaluation is conducted online following each seminar.

Apart from our large range of seminars we offer comprehensive e-learning programs that you and your family can run from home. This enables you to be more flexible in the completion of training sessions. In addition to these ready-made programs you can also access our Knowledge Management System.

As a global player, Henkel needs its leadership to think and act on a global level. The “Henkel Global Academy” was founded to live up to this challenging goal. It features a unique combination of different management programs created by renowned international business schools. We are convinced that the Henkel Global Academy enhances a consistent style of management and enables us to set up a far-flung international network.  As a result, there is no limit to how much knowledge you can acquire at Henkel.

Moreover, as a company with an international focus, Henkel encourages its employees to develop and live a comprehensive and international corporate culture that extends beyond seminars and training.  For the enhancement of global thinking and cooperation in an increasingly diversified world we have created the special concept of “Triple 2”.  Within this framework our employees are given the opportunity to work in 2 countries in 2 divisions and 2 functions to enhance their global development.

We firmly believe that a global mind-set can’t be shaped in the classroom but only in an international working environment. A strong global network is the precondition for innovative exchanges of ideas and capacities that will guarantee the long-term success of the company.

We offer a large variety of ways in which to develop yourself and the expertise and growth of the company. The shelf life of knowledge keeps falling off and it is the responsibility of a company - of its managers and all its employees - to keep up with the standard of knowledge. We offer you ample opportunities - it is your responsibility to use them.

Gain Recognition

We offer state-of-the-art compensation and benefit programs which enable Henkel to attract, motivate and retain highly skilled, talented and best-performing employees in over 125 countries.


Performance-related Compensation

Henkel’s main objective of compensation policy is to ensure the long-term and sustainable business success of the company by aligning the interests of our employees with our business strategy. Our compensation strategy is a significant part of our performance management. It is designed to reward employees for their contributions in the achievement of company targets and role-specific objectives. Pay for performance signifies our key philosophy in rewarding employees for the achievement of short and long-term business goals. Our compensation programs are competitive in the labor markets in which our businesses compete and consist of:

• Base Salary: a fixed pay component based on the requirements of the job and local market needs
• Short-Term Incentives: a reward for the achievement of business and individual targets based on yearly target agreements
• Long-Term Incentives: a reward for our core management team for the long-term creation of Shareholder Value

Benefits
We are committed to offering a broad array of competitive benefits that serve the diverse needs of our employees around the world. Our benefits form a valuable element of the overall compensation package and focus on providing employees with adequate security in the major areas of:

• Health
• Welfare
• Retirement

Depending on market conditions and local benefits, Henkel also offers additional fringe benefits and perquisites, e.g. company cars or share purchase plans.

Our compensation and benefits policy encourages the mobility of our employees across countries, businesses and functional areas, thus promoting the flexibility of our organization all over the world. It will foster Henkel’s future success.

In order to continually improve our performance, we are looking for above-average qualified people to join our team. Your excellent academic degree is an invaluable component to launch your career at Henkel. Of equal importance to us is your whole personality.

We expect you to:

• Be keen on success
• Have an international approach
• Think innovatively
• Be open-minded and flexible
• Be a team player
• Take initiative
• Have interpersonal competence
• And have proven this in the past through practical experience (internships, etc.)