Global Product Manager

Your Job

Molex is growing its Power & Signal Business Unit (PSBU) and increasing our focus on High Power Solutions. We are looking for a talented professional to join as a Global Product Manager, supporting critical connector products enabling our high-power cable business growth. If you want to be part of a fast-paced team that is fueling the rapid growth of our BU and work on products that are enabling cutting edge technologies in Datacenter and Artificial Intelligence, this is the opportunity for you.

Our Team

In this role, you will work with highly dedicated professionals at Molex who focus on our innovative high-power connectors. These connectors are essential in delivering new high-power cable based connection systems to our focus customers and design partners. This position will require effective collaboration with Sales, Business Development, Marketing, Engineering, Project Management, Operations and other internal cable product teams.

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What You Will Do

• Increase revenue, profitability, and market share of assigned connector products
• Develop and leverage a deep understanding of the datacenter market and the rapidly changing power requirements
• Identify new differentiated connector products that support high power cable solutions to bring more value to our existing customers and potential new customers
• Create Voice of the Customer product requirements that specify the features to be developed by Engineering
• Coordinate with cable product managers and project managers to ensure connector design and development timeline meet overall customer timelines
• Establish and maintain program plans, lead cross-functional execution, and escalate barriers for timely decisions.
• Perform a financial analysis to ensure that each proposed development and tooling investment meets Molex's profitability requirements
• Establish costs and associated pricing strategies, review and approve pricing requests
• Share responsibility for developing and maintaining the high power cable and connector roadmap
• Work with our plants on capacity planning and cost reduction activities
• Create promotional material and sample kits for product launches
• Train Sales, customers, and distributors on new product capabilities

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience as a product manager, field application engineer, or sales engineer for hardware products
• Track record of growing revenue and profitability
• Ability to guide customers to the appropriate product solutions
• Understanding of business metrics used to fund programs and gauge product success
• Skill in presenting to large groups
• Interpersonal skills to effectively work with co-workers and external contacts to effectively build relationships, respond positively to situations, and influence others
• Willingness to travel to customers and distributors as needed, requiring 20% domestic travel and occasional international travel.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in high power interconnect solutions (connectors, busbars, and/or cable assemblies)
• Knowledge and customer relationships in the data center, electrification, or industrial markets
• Understanding of Open Compute Project (OCP) power distribution solutions
• Demonstrated ability to create a hardware concept and take it through a successful product launch
• Engineering degree

For this role, we anticipate paying $120,000 - $160,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).