Technical Product Owner-Data & Analytics

About this Position

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.

Dare to learn new skills, advance in your career and make an impact at Henkel.

What You´ll Do

• Strong technical background and experience in Data and Analytics product implementations
• Represents the voice of the customer
• Helps triage and resolves technical issues with impacted Analytics use cases
• Creates, manages and shares the product vision, product strategy and product roadmap
• Ensures transparency of requirements and accounts for product success
• Responsible for managing the Product Backlog
• Ensures a holistic view on the product, which includes also Legal, data office and Henkel IT standards

What makes you a good fit

• Bachelors degree with minimum 7 years experience
• Key Responsibilities

+ Product Ownership & Strategy

• Own and manage the product backlog for data products, tools, and analytics initiatives, prioritizing based on business value, user needs, and strategic objectives.
• Gather and translate requirements from internal and external stakeholders, and market insights into clear product features, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Stay current on data technologies (BI tools, data warehouses, cloud ecosystems) and market trends to inform product strategy and roadmap decisions.
• Steer ongoing operations support for existing products – maintenance and enhancements

+ Cross Functional Collaboration

• Partner closely with data engineering, analytics, and business teams to define project goals, technical requirements, and success metrics.
• Act as a bridge between technical and non technical teams, translating business needs into actionable technical plans.
• Collaborate with training, sales, and customer success teams to drive adoption and communicate the value of data tools to end users.

+ Data Engineering & Architecture Leadership

• Manage end to end execution of data engineering and analytics projects, including planning, development, testing, and deployment.
• Recommend and design appropriate data architectures considering use cases, data volume, latency, scalability, performance, and integration requirements.
• Oversee development of data pipelines, ETL/ELT workflows, and data warehousing solutions, ensuring adherence to best practices in modeling and optimization.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy policies across all data systems and processes.
• Apply strong technical expertise in Python, Databricks, and Azure throughout solution design and implementation.

+ Agile Delivery & Project Management

• Lead Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand ups, and retrospectives.
• Use tools such as Azure DevOps to track progress, manage work, and ensure high quality, on-time delivery of analytics solutions and data products.
• Coordinate release planning to align development teams and ensure smooth deployment cycles

Some benefits of joining Henkel

• Health Insurance: affordable plans for medical, dental, vision and wellbeing starting on day 1
• Work-Life Balance: Paid time off including sick, vacation, holiday and volunteer time, flexible & hybrid work policies (depending on role), and vacation buy / sell program
• Financial: 401k matching, employee share plan with voluntary investment and Henkel matching shares, annual performance bonus, service awards and student loan reimbursement
• Family Support: 12-week gender neutral parental leave (up to 20 weeks for parents giving birth), fertility support, adoption & surrogacy reimbursement, discounted child and elderly care, and scholarships
• Career Growth: diverse national and international growth opportunities, access to thousands of skills development courses, and tuition reimbursement

The salary range for this role is $130,000. 00 and $150,000. 00.

This range represents the good‑faith minimum and maximum wages the Company reasonably expects to offer for this role at the time of posting. In addition to base salary, this position may be eligible for incentive pay or other forms of compensation, as applicable. The Company also offers a comprehensive benefits package as described above.

Actual compensation will be based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, experience, education, training, and work location. This posting is intended to comply with all applicable state and local pay transparency laws.

Henkel does not accept unsolicited resumes from search firms or employment agencies. Unsolicited referrals and resumes are considered Henkel property and therefore, Henkel will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited referral.

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. Henkel is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, and other legally protected categories.