Senior Manager of Corporate Strategy

Your Job

The Molex Corporate Development and Strategy team is seeking a Senior Manager, Strategy to join our team.

The Strategy team is responsible for collaborating with Molex leadership to set the organization's strategic priorities and supporting teams through execution.

They are focused on assessing new market opportunities, identifying the key spaces where Molex should compete, defining the capabilities needed for Molex to succeed, and driving flawless execution against the vision.

This role is based out Molex's Chicago or Lisle offices.

What You Will Do

You will lead strategic projects and initiatives across the organization but with a primary focus on Molex's Datacom Division which is helping drive innovation and advancement in AL and Machine Learning datacenter applications.

You will successfully define potential opportunities, develop workplans, execute primary and secondary research, assess existing and potential new market spaces, and interface with key business leaders to organize Molex's response to critical strategic opportunities.

You will be responsible for creating partnerships and driving collaboration with Molex business leaders and evaluating potential external partnership opportunities to drive strategic decisions and execution against strategic plans.

In particular, this may include:

New market assessments: define, lead, conduct analyses to assess the attractiveness of existing, adjacent, and white-space markets, plus potential inorganic opportunities within those markets



* Perform primary and secondary market research


* Leverage existing databases, work across organization to understand internal expertise, conduct subject matter expert interviews to gain valuable insight into market dynamics


* Develop fact-based, economically driven, 'outside-in' perspectives on potential new market spaces; update and refresh points of view on market segments where Molex has existing presence


* Identify key market trends, dynamics, value chain participants and translate into actionable insights for Molex leadership


* Attend trade shows, industry conferences and interface with industry experts


* Define implications and outline action plans for Molex

Market specific strategic projects: execute key efforts for Molex's Division or Business Unit leadership teams



* Outline problem statements, develop research plan, execute analysis to support strategic direction for Molex's Divisions, Business Units, and Segments, with a primary focus on the Datacom market

Support execution of Molex's commercial excellence agenda: lead targeted projects and engagements to identify profit-improvement opportunities across commercial execution levers and partner with business teams to drive execution and implementation

Support project execution and linkage of projects to operational teams: proactively support high-value commercial opportunities and new product launches to win with customers in the Datacom, AI, and Machi...