At Henkel, you’ll be part of an organization that’s shaping the future through innovation, sustainability and collaboration. With our trusted brands like Persil®, ‘all®, Loctite®, Snuggle®, and Schwarzkopf® and our cutting-edge technologies, you’ll have countless opportunities to explore new paths and grow.
This position is with our Adhesive Technologies business unit – where we empower our people to transform industries and provide our customers with a competitive advantage through adhesives, sealants and functional coatings.

This Bridgewater based position is focused on meeting the technical needs of our APP-paper coatings team. This Business Development Application Engineering role will be entrepreneurial, and customer focused to develop and implement solutions that enable our customers to introduce innovative, sustainable packaging products into the market. Customer focused value delivery and quantification projects are key drivers that could include on-site technical service. This individual will have inside technical responsibilities including product evaluations, complaint investigations, equipment sourcing and set-ups, and raw material and product recommendations for our paper coatings markets.

• Works closely with our Business Development, and Marketing, to meet the technical needs within our APP platform and is a key contributor to our new market growth opportunities.
• Extensive knowledge and experience around paper packaging coatings.
• Manage and steer innovation development programs in partnership with the business development team and field associates– setting project milestones and driving progress to deliver new products/market opportunities.
• The Business Development AE will focus on shaping the innovation pipeline and sustainable solutions as well as introducing new products, technology, and tools to the field/market.
• Connect with external stakeholders (suppliers, customers, research institutes) to support development initiatives.
• Prepares laboratory reports which present findings and conclusions and prepares direct customer correspondence.
• Understands lab procedures presented in Technical journals, can adapt, and modify procedures to meet project requirements and effectively communicate technical information back to Business Development.
• Interprets laboratory results and recommends next experimental steps or products.
• Sets up and operates standard lab equipment of moderate complexity.
• Establishes and leverages external networks and partnerships.