Associate Product Manager

Your Job

The Associate Product Manager will support sales and collaborate with the product development teams to develop and implement strategic marketing, commercialization, and promotional plans for product groups within the industrial division.

This person will be a supporting function to the Product Manager for specific product lines to drive customer engagement and adoption of products.

The product lines include Industrial cables, receptacles, patch cable assemblies, trunk cables and specialty cable assemblies.

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

In addition, the Associate Product Manager will support product training, web initiatives, sales releases, and any other marketing activity which leads to meeting divisional revenue goals.

Our Team

Molex is growing in the Industrial Solutions Business Unit and is looking for a growth minded person to join our team as an Associate 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 Associate Product Manager within the Industrial Automation Connectivity Product Management Group.

What You Will Do

General



* Lead a cross functional rapid response team for new and existing customers projects.


* Assist Product Managers to develop a short-term strategy to capture current market/revenue growth opportunities as well as a 5-10 year strategic vision.


* Help to define the product roadmap and development opportunities, providing prioritized guidance to the development organization.


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


* Assist Product Managers to 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 product line transactional activities through daily collaboration with sales, engineering, and the manufacturing facilities.


* Help to manage the product lifecycle and portfolio management activities.


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

Sales & Marketing


* Assist Product Managers to lead customer segmentation and value chain activities to identify key decision makers and design opportunities.


* Engage with customers in the development of specifications and technical requirements, which can be used to direct the development of new products, product variants or improvements.


* Review price requests, maintain price sys...