Product Manager Optical Connectivity - Molex

The Product Manager will be the focal point driving commercialization, sales, and product development efforts with broad responsibilities to lead activity across internal and external clients including customers, suppliers, engineering, manufacturing, quality, channel partners and strategic marketing. Focus product and markets include fiber optic broadband access market products including optical cable, drop cable assemblies, enclosures and a wide array of connectivity products.

Molex is expanding its Optical Solutions Business Unit into new market segments and is looking for a growth minded person to join our team as a Product Manager. If you are looking for a way to accelerate your career and be part of a great company, this may be the opportunity for you. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with highly dedicated professionals at Molex and bring your experience and knowledge to be recognized as an Product Manager within the Fiber Optic Connectivity Product Management Group.

This role will include engagement with distribution and channel partners, pricing and cost analysis, supporting marketing efforts and driving commercialization of a product to market.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries.

What You Will Do

General

• Develop strategy to capture current market/revenue growth opportunities as well as a 5-10 year strategic vision.
• Define product roadmaps, functional requirements, documentation and market development opportunities, prioritizing guidance to the development organization.
• Develop sound points of view on technologies, product, customer, competitors, and convert market trends into actionable product line strategies.
• Define, execute, and manage pricing strategy, P&L, and manufacturing footprint for product portfolio, including compilation of competitive price points to manage future price erosion.
• Responsible for directing product line transactional activities through daily collaboration with support staff, channel partners, representative firms, engineering, and the manufacturing facilities.
• Manage product lifecycle and portfolio management activities.
• Interact with manufacturing plants to lead cost reduction efforts, capacity planning, and quality improvement initiatives.

• Lead customer segmentation and value chain activities to identify key decision makers and design opportunities.
• Drive creation and implementation of data sheets, brochures, web content and marketing collateral within various Molex content management systems.
• Engage with customers in the development of new products, specifications and technical requirements which are used by the various teams in commercialization activities
• Create strategy and inputs to pricing systems for assigned product lines
• Track and monitor product and program launches to support build timing and sample requirements.
• Drive creation and deliver product trainings to support the global sales force and customers.
• Develop growth and penetration strategies for underdeveloped customers and markets.
• Manage a team of Molex business development managers and rep firms who are working with end users and distributors to design in Molex access market products.
• Travel to meet with customers, channel partners and suppliers to understand needs, capabilities and ultimately design in products that meet & exceed requirements.
• Define and coordinate marketing strategies for trade shows , advertising, promotions, incentive programs and channel partner programs.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in product management, engineering, business, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of experience in Product Management, Product Development.
• 5+ years of experience in access, broadband markets with fiber connectivity and apparatus products
• Experience in P&L, cost analysis, pricing.
• Desire to interface directly with customers and suppliers at multiple levels
• Demonstrated skills in preparing business plans, product promotion, customer and industry engagement with strong presentation and speaking skills
• Ability to travel ~40% of the time.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with customer engagements.
• Working with, in or supporting distribution sales and representative firms.
• Experience with reporting and analysis, PowerBI.
• B2B business or technical experience.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

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.

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