Product Manager- Application Tooling

Product Manager - Application Tooling

Position Overview:

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 application tooling products in alignment with the business unit mission, strategy and goals.

Essential Functions:

• Train and support the sales team and distribution partners to increase revenue and market share of assigned product line(s) and in support of Divisional objectives.
• Develop and implement strategic business plans targeting the key industries and geographies. Identify product line trends and technologies.
• Support customer technical requests as needed.
• Engage marketing resources to create promotional tools, product collateral and sales tools to facilitate customer product awareness and adoption.
• Oversee and facilitate new tooling development activity in support of associated interconnect product launches
• Identify product gaps and commercialize new offerings to broaden the Molex application tooling line
• Improve profit margin of assigned product line(s), leading cost reduction activities, manufacturing strategy and quality improvements.
• Maximize product profitability and revenue growth 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.
• Identify opportunities to establish and develop industry partner relationships.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of experience working in the electronics industry
• 3+ years of experience in product management, operations, engineering and/or sales
• Ability to effectively build relationships with internal teams and external contacts, respond positively to situations, and influence others
• Track record of growing revenue and profitability
• Ability to guide customers to the appropriate product solutions
• Understand business metrics and data to monitor progress and make decisions
• Self-motivated and organized to anticipate, plan, prioritize and self-monitor workload
• Experience with effectively presenting to large groups
• Willing and able to travel to customers and distributors regularly (10-25%) to achieve business objectives. Includes international travel as needed.

What Puts You Ahead:

• Experience working with connector companies or cable harness manufacturers.
• Experience working with automated and semi-automated cable manufacturing equipment

Location

• Lisle, Illinois location preferred
• Molex will consider relocation for candidates with the right experience

For this role, we anticipate paying $115,000 - $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.