Program Manager, Strategic Marketing

Program Manager, Strategic Marketing

Location: Chicagoland Area, open to remote

Travel: Less than 10%

Reports To: Director, Marketing Operations

Your Job

Molex is seeking a highly organized, results-oriented Program Manager to lead complex, cross-functional marketing initiatives that require rigorous planning, stakeholder alignment, and disciplined execution.

The position is responsible for translating strategic business objectives into executable plans, driving accountability across stakeholders, proactively managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring work remains aligned across numerous interconnected teams.

This role will support strategic marketing initiatives, including acquisition integration, digital transformation programs, and marketing technology implementations.

This role sits at the center of highly visible enterprise initiatives, serving as a critical connection point between Marketing, Information Technology, and business leadership teams.

Success requires the ability to navigate ambiguity, influence without authority, balance competing priorities, and maintain executive visibility into program progress and outcomes.

What You Will Do



* Lead large-scale, highly visible marketing initiatives from initiation through completion.


* Represent Marketing in enterprise-wide initiatives, advocating for marketing priorities, identifying impacts to marketing teams, and ensuring marketing requirements are incorporated into cross-functional decisions and program plans.


* Serve as the primary representative and advocate for Marketing within enterprise programs, ensuring marketing priorities, requirements, and deliverables are effectively integrated into broader business initiatives.


* Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones, dependency maps, decision logs, and risk registers.


* Partner closely with non-Marketing stakeholder teams to develop implementation strategies and execution plans


* Translate strategic objectives into clear execution plans and actionable workstreams.


* Coordinate work across multiple functional teams to ensure interdependent activities remain aligned and sequenced appropriately.


* Align resources, timelines, communications, and stakeholder expectations across technical and business teams.


* Monitor progress against key milestones and escalate critical issues when appropriate.


* Drive accountability across teams to ensure commitments are met and issues are resolved quickly.


* Identify program risks early and implement mitigation strategies before they impact project outcomes.


* Facilitate decision-making by bringing the right stakeholders together with the information needed to move forward.


* Create executive-ready dashboards, presentations, status reports, and meeting materials.


* Provide visibility into project performance, budget considerations, resource constraints, risks, and dependencies.


* Deliver conc...