Senior Director Governance, Risk & Compliance

Your Job

Molex is seeking a Senior Director Governance, Risk & Compliance to define, implement, and continuously improve our enterprise governance, risk, and compliance strategy across a global industrial technology environment.

This leader will continue to evolve the frameworks through which Molex identifies, quantifies, manages, monitors, and reports risk; meets regulatory, certification, and customer obligations; governs the responsible adoption of AI and emerging technologies; and provides executive leadership with clear, actionable risk intelligence.

The successful candidate will combine enterprise leadership, business acumen, and technical and regulatory depth to build a scalable global GRC operating model, strengthen accountability, and enable informed risk-based decisions across Molex.

Our Team

The Molex Cybersecurity team plays a pivotal role in safeguarding the organization's complex global enterprise, product and manufacturing ecosystem.

In an environment governed by a myriad of regulatory requirements and industry standards, the team partners with global Digital and business teams to proactively develop and operate a robust cybersecurity program designed to fortify the company's overall security posture.

Molex brings together innovation and technology to deliver electronic solutions to customers worldwide.

With a presence in more than 40 countries, Molex offers a full suite of solutions and services for markets including data communications, consumer electronics, industrial, automotive, commercial vehicle, aerospace & defense and medical.

What You Will Do



* Define and lead the global enterprise GRC strategy, roadmap, operating model, governance structure, and high-performing global organization.


* Partner with business, legal, Digital and Koch stakeholders to build an integrated governance architecture encompassing regulatory, certification, and customer requirements, including ISO 27001, TISAX, CMMC, GXP, data protection and export controls.


* Create horizon-scanning, impact-assessment, compliance-roadmap, evidence-management, and remediation capabilities that sustain compliance beyond point-in-time audits.


* Maintain an integrated enterprise risk register with accountable owners, measurable treatment plans, escalation thresholds, and analysis of systemic, correlated, and concentration risks.


* In collaboration with Koch, maintain an effective enterprise security policy and common control framework, rationalizing overlapping requirements and enabling a single-control, single-evidence approach where practical.


* In partnership with our Digital AI and legal teams define and operate an enterprise AI governance framework to ensure AI is developed, acquired, deployed, and operated responsibly, securely, and in alignment with business objectives.


* Lead enterprise security training and awareness, including role-based requirements and effectiveness measures.


* Define GRC data, metrics, analy...