Product Manager Optical Connectivity

Your Job

The Product Manager will be the focal point driving commercialization, sales, and product development efforts with broad responsibilities to lead activity across internal and external clients including customers, suppliers, engineering, manufacturing, quality, channel partners and strategic marketing.

Focus product and markets include fiber optic broadband access market products including optical cable, drop cable assemblies, enclosures and a wide array of connectivity products.

Molex is expanding its Optical Solutions Business Unit into new market segments and is looking for a growth minded person to join our team as a 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 Product Manager within the Fiber Optic Connectivity Product Management Group.

This role will include engagement with distribution and channel partners, pricing and cost analysis, supporting marketing efforts and driving commercialization of a product to market.

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


* Develop strategy to capture current market/revenue growth opportunities as well as a 5-10 year strategic vision.


* Define product roadmaps, functional requirements, documentation and market development opportunities, prioritizing guidance to the development organization.


* Develop sound points of view on technologies, product, customer, competitors, and convert market trends into actionable product line strategies.


* 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 directing product line transactional activities through daily collaboration with support staff, channel partners, representative firms, engineering, and the manufacturing facilities.


* Manage product lifecycle and portfolio management activities.


* Interact with manufacturing plants to lead cost reduction efforts, capacity planning, and quality improvement initiatives.

Sales & Marketing


* Lead customer segmentation and value chain activities to identify key decision makers and design opportunities.


* Drive creation and implementation of data sheets, brochures, web content and marketing collateral within various Molex content management systems.


* Engage with customers in the development of new products, specifications and technical requirements w...