Head of Sustainability

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.