Is Henkel a good company to work for?

Henkel has an overall rating of 4.4 out of 5, based on over 10,008 reviews left anonymously by employees. This rating has increased by 2% over the last 12 months. 90% of employees would recommend working at Henkel to a friend and 82% have a positive outlook for the business. The best reviews about Henkel have been left by employees working as Praktikant , Internship and Intern .

Does Henkel pay their employees well?

According to anonymously submitted Glassdoor reviews, Henkel employees rate their compensation and benefits as 4.2 out of 5. Find out more about salaries and benefits at Henkel. This rating has improved by 2% over the last 12 months.

How satisfied are employees working at Henkel?

90% of Henkel employees would recommend working there to a friend based on Glassdoor reviews . Employees also rated Henkel 4.3 out of 5 for work life balance, 4.4 for culture and values and 4.2 for career opportunities.

What are the top reviewed jobs at Henkel?

Intern (331) , Internship (210) , Manager (122) , Brand Manager (85) , Estagiário (80) , Marketing (71) , Marketing Intern (67) , Sales Manager (62) , Key Account Manager (55) , Project Manager (46) , Assistant Brand Manager (44) , Supply Planner (44) , Sales Representative (43) , Analyst (42) , Purchasing Manager (41)

What are the pros of working at Henkel according to real employee reviews?

"Good benefits and there are many tools that the company provides" ((in 432 reviews)); "The people were great and were always willing to help me out with anything I needed and provide advice on a daily basis." ((in 381 reviews)); "Healthy and good work life balance" ((in 253 reviews)); "great company and colleagues" ((in 216 reviews)); "Super teams Great Know" ((in 215 reviews))

What are the cons of working at Henkel according to real employee reviews?

"For the lowest managerial levels salaries are low and the workload is huge." ((in 203 reviews)); "Poor management and not respecting for other" ((in 157 reviews)); "Slovaks managers don't know how to manage people" ((in 74 reviews)); "Poor Management and Leadership." ((in 50 reviews)); "Some mid managers expressed being extremely stressed reporting numbers in meetings to the always unhappy upper management." ((in 25 reviews))

What are employees saying about Henkel layoffs in 2026?

Explore Glassdoor’s employee reviews to understand what current and former employees are saying about Henkel layoffs and their outlook for job security at Henkel in 2026.

What Henkel locations have received the highest employee ratings?

Heidelberg , Düsseldorf , Berlin , Hamburg , Köln

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4.4

90% would recommend to a friend

(5,163 total reviews)

Carsten Knobel

94% approve of CEO

82% positive business outlook

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4.5

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4.4

Culture & values

4.3

Work/Life balance

4.2

Compensation and benefits

4.2

Career opportunities

4.1

Senior management

Henkel has an employee rating of 4.4 out of 5 stars, based on 5,163 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Henkel employee rating is 20% above average for employers within the Produktion industry (3.7 stars).

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4.0

Oct 19, 2008

Good global CPG with chance to become great

Brabd manager

Recommend

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Business Outlook

Pros

Global company with international opportunities, solid portfolio of brands across HPC categories. A lot of effort being made to upgrade internal marketing training and development for new hires in brand management. A fairly well-developed stage-gate process has started to pay dividends in innovation as increased personnel and financial resources are being allocated to deliver meaningful innovation to the marketplace across the portfolio of brands. Woek/life balance is great as vacation time is generous with an allowance to purchase more if so desired. Though work starts early (7:30 am), folks get off around 2:30pm every Friday to enoy the mostly great weather.

Cons

Typically, during the transition from Dial to Henkel performance metrics, promotions have been linked more closely to tenure than performance though efforts are being made to correct this.

2.0

Aug 12, 2008

German perfectionism meets consumer goods and beauty products

International brand manager

Recommend

CEO approval

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Pros

Marketing know how. Engineering. Innovation. Salaries are competitive. Good job security.

Cons

Way too German. Needs to be more internationally minded. No recognition and feedback. Lack of professionalism. Mediocrity at all levels of the organisation

1.0

Jun 11, 2008

Avoid Working for Henkel

I work in it (prefer not to say)

Recommend

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Pros

Health benefits are pretty good. 401k is good.

Cons

Too much outsourcing in IT. Reduced levels of Henkel IT employees which leads to being overworked and assigned projects that are destined to fail. The CIO of North America (Amy Bloebaum) is very good at cutting staff and limiting resources. She is more concerned about saving a nickel today rather than saving a dollar tomorrow. In other words, she is only concerned about short term savings and is unwilling to spend more money to get the job done right. Henkel IT in general is more like a dictatorship that imposes it's will on the various business units in the name of standardization. I've never seen so many unhappy employees at one company in my entire life. Morale is terribly low and all the good people keep jumping ship at the first opportunity.

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