Chief Information Officer - Molex

Molex is looking for a Chief Information Officer! The Chief Information Officer is a key member of Molex's Digital Leadership Team (DLT) responsible for understanding business strategies and applying disruptive and other technologies to advance those strategies. This role is based at our corporate headquarters in Lisle, IL.

Role Purpose

• Leads technology infrastructures, applications, tools and platforms that drive business effectiveness, optimize company assets and continuously evolve the Koch and Molex visions.

• Develops and drives a clear technology vision that supports and accelerates our business strategy and goals.

• Runs, maintains and operates the core operational systems that transact the everyday execution of the global busine

• Focuses on driving business strategy through transformational technology.

• Partners collaboratively with digital peers, leaders and functional teams to identify, develop and deploy key cross-company initiatives to increase value and streamline delivery times of products to external customers.

• Facilitates cross- functional discussions that maximize the effectiveness of modern technology solutions, increase self-serve options, steward governance and frameworks around the tools to keep them optimized, resilient, and safe.

• Develops new ideas, new ways of working, partnering and advising with a sense of constant evolution and enhanced capabilities.

• Proactively discovers, experiments, and understands emerging technology and industry trends that help guide and influence our digital footprint and strategic opportunities.

What You Will Do

Key Experiences

• Successfully leading a large, global matrix organization in either a digitally native or legacy/digital manufacturing business.

• Increasing responsibility and deeper financial acumen and influence -- strategic leader/thinker to help drive a vision around disruption/transformation through the filter of strategy.

• Enterprise/large transformational program and project management with increasing responsibilities over time to include and build deeper financial acumen, problem solving and influencing skills.

• Financial aptitude to commercialize and optimize a P & L; tell the story to build commitment for the investment.

• Executive communication skills relative to the language of business including financial, talent development, delivery and execution including working through implementation issues.

• Leads large-scale enterprise change with direct and indirect resources from initial planning through implementation, innovation and iteration phases.

• Builds high performing, cross functional teams and connects them to the vision, to early adoption and to drive transformative change, including ways of working.

• Identifies future talent needs and develops plan to develop or acquire the talent and capabilities

• Works with a variety of key stakeholders in different digital and functional groups including finance, manufacturing, product, sales, support, customers, etc.

• Understands and implements the digital operating model; operates from a digital mindset to optimize every aspect of the operating model to maximize the value to customers and the company. Is constantly bringing people along, increasing capabilities, innovating new ideas and driving process improvements.

• Develops a culture of innovation where disruptive and incremental ideas are generated and prioritized with a bias for action to drive continuous transformation.

Key Capabilities

• Decision Quality: Makes good decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgement; is often sought out by others for advice and solutions. Makes difficult talent decisions for the benefit of the team and the company.

• Organizational Agility: Deep knowledge of products, markets, capabilities, technology, culture, Principle Based Management, internal company navigation of work through formal and informal channels and an understanding of Koch and Molex structures and systems.

• Executive Communication: Delivers clear, concise, and transparent information with logical, inspiration, and sensitivity to cultural differences. Develops strong relationships and can influence within the organization; has an executive presence and communicates effectively with diverse audiences.

• Leadership development of the leaders/supervisors in his/her organization.

• Critical Thinking: Explores solutions, successfully solves problems, makes good decisions, and identifies risks and opportunities.

• Lead across boundaries to bring together diverse individuals and talents to foster knowledge sharing, develop thought leadership, and strengthen our network of technical talent.

• Critical & Agile Foresight: Provide thought leadership and a clear point-of-view of the future through broad knowledge of business and data; articulates credible pictures, strategies, visions, and plans that are competitive. future oriented and able to improve performance.

• Embraces Ambiguity: Effectively copes with change, is agile and can shift as needed while comfortably balancing risk and uncertainty. Ability to recognize quickly than an adjustment is needed. Comfort with experimentation and failure.

• Build and share broadly a macro view of the technology landscape. This includes headwinds/tailwinds, market trends, adjacent industries and technologies, etc.

• Eliminate and remove obstacles to advance experimentation, deployment, and adoption of new technologies.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Experience leading in a global organization
• Experience influencing in a matrixed, global organization
• VP or above level experience
• Ability to work in Lisle, IL or relocate- this role is based at our HQ in Lisle, IL

What Will Put You Ahead

• CIO or other C suite level experience
• Fast paced manufacturing experience-electronics manufacturing preferred
• Experience leading global transformation initiatives, such as ERP or data platform transformations

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

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

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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