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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.
Territory Sales Engineer (Karnataka)
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About this Position
As a Territory Sales Engineer, you will be responsible for driving sales and business growth across the Karnataka region within the automotive aftermarket segment. You will work closely with distributors, retailers, mechanics, customers, and internal teams to generate demand, identify new business opportunities, strengthen customer relationships, and provide technical support. This role is ideal for someone with strong field sales, territory management, distribution management, and techno-commercial skills
What you´ll do
- Geographical Coverage – Karnataka.
- Drive demand generation and sales activities across the assigned territory.
- Coordinate sales efforts with ESF and channel team members and provide regular sales and status updates to management.
- Identify new sales, market, and business opportunities with customers.
- Build and maintain strong customer relationships through proactive engagement.
- Identify and prioritize market and account opportunities to support sales and growth objectives.
- Develop commercialization plans for prioritized accounts to drive business growth.
- Manage relationships with distributors, retailers, mechanics, customers, and key opinion leaders (KOLs) in the region.
- Assess customer technical complaints and support effective problem resolution.
- Share insights from customer evaluations and discussions with quality teams to help resolve quality-related issues.
What makes you a good fit
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Automotive retail industry in Field Sales position
- Handling sales of adhesives, tapes, spare parts is a must.
- Territory management and distribution management skills.
- Relationship with Customers & Key opinion Leader’s (KOL) of the region.
- Techno-commercial and Negotiation Skills.
- Good Comunication skills
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: 26102371
Job Locations: India, Karnataka, Bangalore
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I am interested in several jobs. Can I apply for multiple positions at the same time?
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?
Yes, please. As Henkel is an international company you will be working with colleagues from all over the world and English is our official company language. Generally, the ‘rule’ is: please write the application in the same language as the job ad.
Do I get feedback during the application process about the state of my application?
Each position that we have open with Henkel is unique, and finding the right candidate is important for both the hired candidate as well as for Henkel. We want to make sure that both the candidate and the company are a good fit for each other. We will provide feedback to the candidates throughout the entire process.
Can employees move between business areas and/or to a different country?
Yes, in fact it is an expectation within Henkel that our talent is flexible and mobile. 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 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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