Senior Marketing Manager

Your Job

The Molex Power and Signal Business Unit needs a strategic marketing leader who is driven to experiment and drive a new marketing vision in the quickly changing digital landscape. This is an evolving role in our organization, so we need someone energized by growing the marketing capability within our BU with two key objectives: 

• Supervise the product marketing team, ensuring tactical execution on core projects    
• Create, develop and define BU marketing programs that leverage new digital tools to supercharge growth 
• The ideal candidate is energized by working with business leadership and product management, understanding target customers and markets and translating commercial objectives into a comprehensive marketing plan.  They must be capable of owning the strategy and while influencing and driving supporting execution through the Molex corporate marketing team.    

Our Team

Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers solutions and services across data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle, and medical markets. This role will support our Power and Signal Business Unit. 

What You Will Do

• Lead BU marketing strategy that aligns with critical imperatives and support commercial objectives  
• Create and implement impactful marketing programs developed from existing corporate marketing capabilities 
• Partner with corporate marketing in developing new capabilities that take advantage of the changing digital and AI landscape 
• Understand and set key marketing KPI’s that align with BU commercial objectives  
• Manage, coach and develop a team of product marketing professionals.
• Works collaboratively with product management teams in both US, Europe and Asia, translating team needs into actionable projects executed by the Molex corporate marketing team. This includes new product introduction. 
• Works with product management to develop positioning messaging and input briefs.  These briefs guide corporate marketing development of sales collateral, website copy, outbound marketing, presentations and other promotions.   
• Coordinates upkeep of existing digital collateral as well as digital assets. 
• May create concepts and outlines for new promotional tools, product collateral and sales tools that facilitate customer product adoption and sales channel education.  These tools include but are not limited to print, video, digital and web-based collateral, physical sample kits and demonstration units.  
• Collaborate with marketing teams in other BU’s, sharing knowledge and best practices. 
• Understand the Molex corporate marketing team, capabilities, innerworkings and processes to ensure BU mindshare and timely completion of projects and programs.  
• Serve as BU expert and liaison to corporate marketing on customers behavior by gaining a deep understanding of target customers and markets 
• Effectively manage multiple marketing programs and priorities while hitting key timelines.   
• Create targeted presentation material for both external and internal use.  

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• 8+ years of experience working in B-B marketing  
• 3+ years of experience working in manufacturing organizations 
• Experience managing, coaching or developing marketing subordinates 
• Enjoy building out capabilities and teams to provide new organizational value 
• Effectively build relationships with both business leaders, product management and marketing resources, navigating corporate dynamics to get results. 
• Tendency to experiment with new capabilities to maximize results 
• Ability to influence without authority 
• Driven to improve the customer experience 
• Capable of identifying and documenting key targeting and product positioning details in preparation for copy writers 
• Ability to communication key marketing frameworks to business unit personnel 
• Self-motivated and organized to anticipate, plan, prioritize and monitor team workload

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience in the connector industry and electronic components 
• Experience building, managing and developing supporting teams 
• Knowledge of the electronics component sales channels and design engineer behaviors 

For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000 - $170,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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

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. 

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. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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