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Job Summary:
Molex is expanding its Optical Solutions Business Unit and seeking a Group Product Line Manager to lead and develop a team of Product Line Managers. This role involves setting product portfolio strategy, driving commercial excellence, and ensuring alignment between market needs, technology roadmaps, and business objectives.
Responsibilities:
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Product Line Managers and Associate Product Line Managers, setting clear expectations, priorities, and performance goals.
• Own the product portfolio strategy, ensuring alignment with business unit objectives, market trends, and customer requirements.
• Guide roadmap development, lifecycle management, and portfolio optimization to drive profitable growth and long‑term competitiveness.
• Partner with engineering and manufacturing leadership to prioritize investments, support new product development, and ensure successful product launches.
• Collaborate with sales and marketing leaders to strengthen value propositions, pricing strategies, and commercialization plans across the portfolio.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) for product performance, margin, growth, and execution excellence.
• Act as an escalation point for complex customer engagements, supporting strategic accounts, pricing decisions, and solution development.
• Drive continuous improvement in product management processes, tools, and best practices across the team.
• Interface with manufacturing plants to support cost reduction initiatives, capacity planning, and quality improvements at a portfolio level.
• Coach Product Managers on customer segmentation, value chain analysis, and identification of key decision makers and design opportunities.
• Support strategic customer engagements to translate market and customer insights into product and portfolio direction.
• Ensure the development of effective product training, technical content, and sales enablement materials for global sales teams and customers.
• Partner with Molex worldwide sales engineers and channel partners to support design‑in activity and long‑term customer success.
• Travel as needed to engage with customers, sales teams, and internal stakeholders.
Qualifications:
Required:
• Demonstrated capability to own and drive portfolio‑level financial performance, including multi‑line pricing strategy, margin improvement, capital trade‑offs, and investment prioritization
• Experience overseeing product lifecycle management across multiple product lines, including roadmap alignment and portfolio rationalization
• Demonstrated expertise working with customers directly to establish VOC and developing a product strategy around that with respective teams
• Strong track record of driving cross‑functional alignment at scale, resolving systemic handoff issues, and ensuring consistent execution across multiple programs, sites, or teams
• Experience synthesizing market trends, customer insights, and competitive dynamics across product lines to inform portfolio strategy and guide product prioritization
• Experience managing direct reports, including leading, mentoring, and coaching, building bench strength, and elevating capability across the team
• Experience influencing decision‑making across functions and organizational levels, balancing short‑term execution with long‑term strategic outcomes
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with experience representing the product portfolio to senior leadership, customers, and internal stakeholders
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 25% or more in support of customers, business engagement, and cross‑functional leadership
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related discipline
Preferred:
• Experience with fiber optic applications or optical connectivity products
• Experience leading product portfolios in B2B or technically complex markets
• Background working with or supporting global sales channels
• Experience using data and analytics tools (e.g., Power BI) to drive portfolio strategy
Company:
Molex supplies electronic interconnect solutions and connectivity products for a broad range of industries. It is a sub-organization of Koch, Inc.. Founded in 1938, the company is headquartered in Lisle, USA, with a team of 5001-10000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.