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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.
PD Specialist- Polyurethane Adhesives
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About this Position
We are seeking a skilled PD Specialist – Polyurethane Adhesives to drive formulation development and commercialization for flexible packaging applications. This role involves adapting global solutions to regional needs, supporting scale-up, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver high-performance, cost-effective products. You will also engage with customers to provide technical support and ensure continuous improvement while maintaining safety and quality standards.
What you´ll do
- Product Development: Formulation development polyurethane adhesives for flexible packaging applications, aligned with regional requirements and customer needs.
- Localization & Customization: Localize global formulations to adapt to regional raw materials and market requirements, ensuring cost-effectiveness and performance.
- Scale-Up & Commercialization: Manage the transition from lab to pilot to full production scale, including batch processing, mixing studies, and documentation.
- Customer Engagement: Conduct customer trials, provide technical support, and gather feedback for continuous improvement of the formulations.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with global teams, sales, marketing, supply chain, and application engineers to ensure on-time project execution and value creation.
- Safety, Quality & 5S Compliance: Ensure compliance with Henkel SHEQ standards and 5S principles. Actively promote and maintain a safe and clean laboratory environment.
- Technical knowhow & Troubleshooting: Provide on-site customer support, resolve application issues for new development, and drive root cause analysis for performance deviations.
What makes you a good fit
- Ph.D./ M. Tech / master’s degree in chemistry, Chemical Engineering, Polymer Science, or Materials Science.
- Minimum 6 years of experience in Solvent based and solvent free Polyurethane adhesive, Polyester adhesive, Formulation design, performance validation, and structure-property analysis.
- Strong oral and written communication skills; ability to create technical reports and presentations.
- Experience with design experiments and performance testing of adhesives or coatings.
- Strong analytical thinking, attention to detail, and scientific rigor.
- Self-motivated, with a high level of initiative and ownership.
- Proven team player with excellent interpersonal skills, adaptability, and a collaborative mindset.
- Agile and flexible to work in a fast-paced, evolving technical environment.
Some perks of joining Henkel
- 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
- Best-in-class Group Medical Insurance policy covering employee, spouse and up to 2 children
- Competitive accident and term life policies for up to 3 times annual gross salary
- Progressive OPD policy of INR 30,000 for employee, spouse and up to 2 children
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 look for a diverse team of individuals who possess different backgrounds, experiences, personalities and mindsets.
JOB ID: 26094316
Job Locations: India, Maharashtra, Navi Mumbai
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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?
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Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
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Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact, it is our expectation that Henkel employees will want to grow and explore different career paths during their time with us. 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 in 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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