Job Description

About this Position Are you energized by solving complex puzzles? Do you enjoy bringing structure to ambiguity while staying agile and impact-driven? As the Regional PMO and Strategy Manager, you will play a key role in strengthening project excellence across the IMEA (India, Middle East, and Africa) region. This dynamic role combines capital project governance, strategic project support, cross-functional collaboration, and capability building.

You will partner closely with project teams, functional leads, and senior executives to ensure that projects are well-planned, governed, executed, and aligned with strategic priorities.

This role is ideal for someone with a structured and analytical mindset, strong communication skills, and a proactive, can-do attitude eager to jump into new challenges.

What you´ll do

Regional Strategy Management

• Prepare, organize and lead strategic projects on regional or global level
• Translate complex data into clear, decision-oriented insights and drive decisions through high impact presentations
• Continuously improve the collaboration and communication between functions via processes, governance, and tools

Capital Project Portfolio Management

• Manage portfolio-wide resource allocation and constraints
• Identify organizational process and skill gaps and drive training and coaching programs
• Lead capital projects during Initiation and Feasibility phases incl. staffing of project team until official handover
• Improve and conduct project audits to objectively evaluate performance, quality, and compliance against defined project criteria and governance standards
• Capture and consolidate lessons learned from portfolio into standards; develop and roll out trainings
• Introduce best practices from across the portfolio to project community
• Provide short-term project support on ad-hoc and need-basis

Capability Building & Training

• Support the creation of regional Project Management training materials and tools.
• Deliver project management training sessions across the IMEA region.
• Promote a culture of project management excellence and continuous improvement..

What makes you a good fit

• Experience across strategy, operations, and supply chain with exposure to LEAN and automation.
• 5 years of experience in the chemical/process industry with an engineering + MBA background.
• Strong skills in Power BI, SharePoint, and Microsoft tools to convert data into actionable insights.
• Ability to simplify complex information and communicate effectively with senior stakeholders.
• Skilled in structured problem‑solving, cross‑functional collaboration, and managing ambiguity.
• Proactive, impact‑driven mindset with a focus on continuous improvement and alignment.

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.