Why Henkel: The "Henkel Spirit"
What differentiates Henkel as an employer from other companies? What do we expect from our colleagues and partners? What benefit and training does Henkel offer for its employees? And how do we support your career and personal development? We are happy to answer your questions here.
All Henkel employees worldwide are united by one thought: We are one team! Together as a global team, we successfully shape the market with passion and joy. We are looking for colleagues who share this motivation and readily take on new challenges.
What you can expect as part of the Henkel team
We want to be the best in everything we do. Our corporate culture is characterized by entrepreneurial thinking and the continuous readiness for change. Innovations create real value for our customers. A commitment to sustainability has always been an important factor of our success. Workplace variety, which also becomes evident in the preferences, knowledge and skills of our employees, is an important value and competitive advantage. That is why we support our employees in their individual development.
Is this appealing and challenging to you? Then you think like we do!
- Leading with our innovations, brands and technologies.
- Innovations
- Diversity
- Sustainability
- Work-Life Flexibility
We are proud of our successful brands & technologies that are present in our customer’s every day lives. Everyone knows our innovative brands such as Persil, Schwarzkopf or Pattex.
What many don’t know: The biggest part of Henkel’s turnover stems from the Adhesive Technologies business – technologies that are used in cars, wind turbines, airplanes or mobile phones, for instance.
Let’s dive deeper into what each business area stands for:
Adhesive Technologies
Did you know that 70% of all smartphones worldwide contain adhesives from Henkel?
High-tech products for airplanes or Pritt products for school use: Adhesives have developed into a key technology and have become an integral part of our everyday life: furniture, diapers, wallpapers, packaging – there is a long list of things that wouldn’t be working without them.
We lead today’s and build tomorrow’s markets with our unique portfolio of breakthrough innovations, tailor-made solutions and strong brands in adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.
Beauty Care
Did you know that every second more than 20 hair colorants from Henkel are sold worldwide?
Schwarzkopf, Fa, Syoss: The business unit develops, produces and sells numerous successful high-quality products (hair, body, skin and oral), which are available in 150 countries worldwide. Henkel Beauty Care is active in the Branded Consumer Goods as well as the professional Hair Salon business. Schwarzkopf Professional for instance is among the world’s three leading suppliers of hair salon products.
Laundry & Home Care
Did you know that Henkel sells detergents for around 25 billion wash loads per year?
The Laundry & Home Care business unit is the cornerstone of Henkel’s success story: The company’s first product was a laundry detergent based on sodium silicate, named “Universal-Waschmittel” (universal detergent).
Since then, this branded consumer goods business has grown into a globally active unit with well-known brands, such as Persil, Purex or Pril. For consumers around the world, our brand names have become an integral part of their daily lives.
Innovations are a key to our business success: Welcome to the inventor of the first self-acting detergent, the first roll-on deodorant, the first glue stick. Each day, we apply our creativity, courage and curiosity to strive towards a single, simple and grand vision: to establish Henkel as the leading company in brands and technologies worldwide.
The key to our success
Our capacity to innovate is of vital strategic importance. It is the basis of our commercial success. Over the last three years, about one third of our revenue has been generated through new products and technologies. In this way, we are able to witness the developing future for our business and are able to generate value for our industrial and commercial customers, our end-users and our employees.
If you look at top brands such as Loctite (industry and retail) and Schwarzkopf (consumer) or Persil – every product was created with extensive knowledge and innovative technologies.
For more information about Henkel R&D activities check out the annual report.
Henkel has more than 53,000 employees. Each one is different. Each one is unique. And the diversity of each one makes their valuable contribution to Henkel’s economic success. We are sure: Diversity makes a difference in the global competition – "from good to great".
We respect your individual characteristics and treat them as a valuable contribution to our corporate culture. We give you the freedom to achieve self-fulfillment. Anywhere. All over the world. Understanding and accepting different points of view is the basis for achieving success through diversity.
Henkel helps its employees develop their talent across the spectrum – economics, creativity and innovation – and then apply it at the workplace. Our objective is to build the best teams, and in order to do this, we develop employees according to their expertise, potential and performance. This principle of variety and individual freedom as part of our corporate culture is called Diversity & Inclusion.
Forward-thinkers needed
We want all of our employees to act in a sustainable way. Our managers set a good example and demonstrate the significance of sustainability. It is therefore an integral part of the global training we offer. For instance, Henkel has trained more than 50,000 sustainability ambassadors.
We also target employees who understand the implications of sustainability – and in particular those who understand that improved sustainability directly helps us achieve our business goals. Those who share and act on these beliefs are part of our corporate culture and will fit in well with Henkel.
At Henkel, we place great value on giving our employees the freedom and space to develop, and therefore offer plenty of flexibility to shape their working lives. What ultimately counts at work are results: where and when the work is done is less significant.
Many Henkel sites and locations offer flextime options. At the headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany, Henkel provides three child day-care centers with 240 places. Furthermore, job sharing options, flextime, home office and laptops offer a more flexible working environment.
All in all, perfect general conditions that enable employees to organize themselves in order to optimize their performance.
