Purchasing Supplier Innovation Internship

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 47.000 pioneers around the globe. The teams in our corporate functions enable the best in our dynamic businesses and in our people to maximize our company’s potential. With our leading 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, our diverse and vibrant culture and find a place where you simply belong. All to leave your mark for more sustainable growth.

Building on collaborative relationships with strategic raw material suppliers, Supplier Innovation Management connects development needs of Henkel Adhesive Technologies and capabilities of raw material supplier to create best-in-class innovations for customers. Working closely with product development and business, we steer supplier performance, ensure smooth collaboration, support negotiations and drive joint projects to success.

Dare to make an impact?

YOUR ROLE

• Become a team member of the diverse and global Supplier Innovation Management team
• Support supplier, technology scouting projects and research activities
• Communicate with internal and external stakeholders from R&D, purchasing or business
• Collaborate with the team members on key strategic initiatives and contribute with your ideas
• Help to drive digital workstream by supporting data analysis and reporting
• Drive your assignments, plan your time and workload
• Join us for an exciting internship from Jan 2025 to June 2025 

YOUR SKILLS

• Motivated degree student of business, chemistry or similar program (Masters degree preferred)
• Experience from other internships preferred
• Good organizational and time management skills
• Strong sense of ownership and independence
• Creativity and eagerness to contribute with ideas
• Advanced communication skills
• Good data analysis skills and excellent knowledge of MS Office applications, specifically Excel and Power BI
• Excellent English language skills

We consider candidates whose internships are either mandatory or endorsed by their university.

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.