Your Job
Molex Power and Signal Business Unit is looking for an enterprising Product Manager who is driven to build long term product growth. The ideal candidate is energized by working in partnership with customers, sales, marketing, operations and engineering to drive their strategic vision. This role will market and promote an appliance focused low power product portfolio in alignment with Molex’s overall mission, strategy and goals.
What You Will Do
- Develop and implement strategic business plans targeting the appliance and other strategic industries. Identify product line trends and technologies. Lead long term product planning.
- Train and support the sales team and distribution partners to increase revenue and market share of assigned product line(s) in support of Divisional and Global objectives.
- Create promotional tools, product collateral and sales tools to facilitate customer product adoption.
- Improve profit margin of assigned product line(s), leading cost reduction activities, manufacturing strategy and quality improvements.
- Maximize product profitability by setting product pricing, supporting key customer negotiations and approving pricing requests as needed.
- Work with operations to track capacity and drive capital investments supporting forecasted demand. Support tactical operational and supply chain initiatives as needed.
- Manage new product development activity associated with extending and growing the life of assigned product line(s).
- Identify opportunities to establish and develop industry partner relationships.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- 5+ years of experience working in the electronics industry
- 3+ years of experience in product management, engineering and/or sales
- Track record of growing revenue and profitability
- Ability to effectively build relationships with internal teams and external contacts, respond positively to situations, and influence others.
- Ability to guide customers to the appropriate product solutions.
- Understanding of business metrics and data used to gauge product success.
- Self-motivated and organized to anticipate, plan, prioritize and self-monitor workload.
- Experience with effectively presenting to large groups.
- Willingness to travel to customers and distributors as needed to achieve business objectives
What Will Put You Ahead
- Experience in the connector industry
- Familiarity and knowledge of automated and semi-automated cable manufacturing equipment
- Experience in Appliance / Automotive Markets
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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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