Associate Product Manager

Your Job

The Associate Product Manager will support sales and collaborate with the product development teams to develop and implement strategic marketing, commercialization, and promotional plans for product groups within the division. This person will be a supporting function to the Product Manager for specific product lines to drive customer engagement and adoption of products. The product lines include: optical connectors, adapters, patch cable assemblies, trunk cables and specialty cable assemblies.

Molex is growing in the Optical Solutions Business Unit and is looking for a growth minded person to join our team as an Associate Product Manager. If you are looking for a way to accelerate your career and be part of a great company, this may be the opportunity for you. In this role you will have the opportunity to work with highly dedicated professionals at Molex and bring your experience and knowledge to be recognized as an Associate Product Manager within the Fiber Optic Connectivity Product Management Group.

This role will include engagement with the end customers and distribution partners, pricing and cost analysis, supporting marketing efforts and driving commercialization of a product to market. In addition, the Associate Product Manager will support product training, web initiatives, sales releases, and any other marketing activity which leads to meeting divisional revenue goals.

Our Team

Molex creates connections for life by enabling technologies that transform the future and improve lives. With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a complete range of connectivity products, services and solutions for the data communications, medical, industrial, automotive and consumer electronics industries.

What You Will Do

General

• Assist Product Managers to develop a short-term strategy to capture current market/revenue growth opportunities as well as a 5-10 year strategic vision.
• Help to define the product roadmap and development opportunities, providing prioritized guidance to the development organization.
• Develop sound points of view on technologies, product, customer, competitors, and convert market trends into actionable product line strategies.
• Assist Product Managers to define, execute, and manage pricing strategy, P&L, and manufacturing footprint for product portfolio, including compilation of competitive price points to manage future price erosion.
• Responsible for product line transactional activities through daily collaboration with sales, engineering, and the manufacturing facilities.
• Help to manage the product lifecycle and portfolio management activities.
• Interact with manufacturing plants to lead cost reduction efforts, capacity planning, and quality improvement initiatives.

Sales & Marketing

• Assist Product Managers to lead customer segmentation and value chain activities to identify key decision makers and design opportunities.
• Engage with customers in the development of specifications and technical requirements, which can be used to direct the development of new products, product variants or improvements.
• Review price requests, maintain price system and elaborate price strategies for assigned product lines
• Track and monitor product and program launches to support build timing and sample requirements.
• Create and deliver technical product trainings and technical brochures to support the global sales force and customers.
• Help to develop growth and penetration strategies for underdeveloped customers and markets.
• Partner with the Molex worldwide sales engineers who are working with OEMs and Molex franchised distributors to design in Molex connectors & assemblies.
• As needed, travel to meet with customers onsite to understand customer needs and ultimately design in products that meet & exceed customer requirements.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related discipline.
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management, Technical Sales, or related field.
• Experience in cost analysis or pricing.
• Desire to interface directly with business and customers.
• Demonstrated skills in preparing and delivering presentations.
• Ability to travel 20-35% of the time.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience with Fiber Optic applications or products.
• Experience with customer engagements.
• Working with or supporting Distribution sales.
• Experience with PowerBI.
• B2B business or technical experience.

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