Marketing Manager

Your Job

Molex is looking for a Marketing Manager to oversee the strategy and execution of industry tradeshow and customer events, ensuring seamless coordination and impactful experiences.

This role requires close collaboration across marketing, sales, business units, and external partners to align event efforts with strategic business goals.

You will drive agile event project management, vendor relationships, and creative collateral development, while fostering a culture of data-driven problem-solving and continuous improvement.

This position offers the opportunity to grow your leadership skills, contribute to high-profile global events, and make a meaningful impact on the company's brand presence and customer engagement!

Location: This is an onsite role based at our office in Lisle, IL.

What You Will Do


* Oversee the strategy and execution of industry tradeshow, customer events, and company-hosted events globally.


* Foster cross-functional collaboration by actively engaging with marketing, sales, business units, and external partners, leveraging diverse expertise to maximize event impact and create an event strategy that delivers a tangible return on investment.


* Lead facilitation and prioritization of team efforts within matrixed and agile environments to effectively allocate bandwidth and deliverables aligned with strategic goals.


* Promote a culture of problem solving by encouraging open challenge, data-driven experimentation, and continuous improvement in event planning and execution.


* Enhance stakeholder communication by maintaining transparent, timely updates and facilitating inclusive dialogue across all event-related teams.


* Apply agile best practices to event project management, allowing for adaptability and rapid response to changing priorities or unforeseen challenges.


* Secure venues, plan layouts, and manage vendors to implement tradeshow and event presence.


* Work with vendors and marketing teams to drive the development and customization of specialized collateral, digital experiences, and fixture designs for the event.


* Propose and manage budgets along with negotiating tradeshow, hotel, technology, and event vendor contracts.


* Ensure effective brand representation beyond the exhibit hall through speaking opportunities, sponsorships, advertising, private meetings, and other event tactics.


* Champion critical thinking by questioning assumptions, encouraging diverse viewpoints, and applying economic reasoning to optimize trade show and event strategies.


* Promote events through marketing channels including social media, email and digital advertising campaigns.


* Attend tradeshows and customer events globally as appropriate to ensure smooth operation.


* Measure and report the success of tradeshow and event KPIs along with their longer-term business impacts to continually improve our return on investment.


* Oversee creation of communications delivera...