Director of Corporate Strategy

Your Job

The Molex Corporate Development and Strategy team is seeking a Director of Strategy to join our team, supporting Molex's Optical Solutions business unit in the Datacom/AI market.

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

Molex's Optical business unit is a market leader in optical products used in data transmission, such as transceivers, optical cables and connectors, amplifiers, and optical switches; sold to leading customers in data and artificial intelligence such as Amazon, Google, and others.

This role will help assess new market opportunities, identify where we should compete, define the capabilities needed to succeed, and drive flawless execution against the vision.

The role will be based out Molex's Fremont (San Francisco bay area) or Chicago/Lisle offices.

What You Will Do

You will lead strategic projects and initiatives across the Optical Solutions business, which is helping drive innovation and advancement in AI, Cloud and Data center applications.

You will help define our strategies, assess new markets, new customers, or new or technical applications, support strategic decision making and investments, and interface with key business leaders to organize Molex's response to critical strategic opportunities.

You will be responsible for driving collaboration with Molex business, sales and operations leaders to drive strategic decisions and execution against strategic plans.

In particular, this may include:

Shape our growth strategies and overall strategic planning: Collaborate with business unit leaders and Molex executives to define where and how Optical Solutions can grow.


* Define our right to win across key markets, customers, products and technology applications


* Build understanding of market trends, headwinds, tailwinds, risks and competition


* Define critical capabilities needed for success


* Prioritize and weigh alternative courses of action

Identify new opportunities for inorganic growth (acquisition, licensing, etc.) and build relationships with external industry participants in support of this objective

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


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


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


* Perform primary and secondary market research; leverage internal and external expertise, conduct subject matter expert interviews


* Identify key market trends, dynamics, value chain participants and translate into a...