Regional Distribution Sales Manager

Regional Distribution Sales Manager

Location: Texas-based, supporting the Central Region (TX, OK, LA, AR).

Travel: Up to 40% regional travel, plus local customer and distributor visits.

Your Job

Molex is seeking a Regional Distribution Sales Manager (RDSM) to drive growth and strengthen strategic distribution partnerships across the Central Region of North America.

In this role, you will serve as the primary liaison to distributor leadership, product managers, field application engineers (FAEs), sales teams, and branch organizations, developing and executing strategies that increase demand creation, market penetration, design wins, and revenue growth.

This is an individual contributor role with significant influence across the Molex organization.

You will play a critical role in shaping channel strategy, expanding Molex's presence within key growth markets, and accelerating customer engagement across a broad portfolio of interconnect, passive, and electromechanical solutions.

Success in this position requires a combination of commercial acumen, technical aptitude, and relationship-building expertise to create mutual value for customers, distribution partners, and Molex.

What You Will Do



* Drive territory growth through strategic engagement with distribution partners and targeted demand creation activities.


* Develop and execute business plans that increase market share, revenue growth, design activity, and customer adoption of Molex solutions.


* Build and strengthen relationships with distributor teams throughout the channel.


* Lead strategic initiatives with distribution partners that increase market penetration and strengthen Molex's position within targeted growth markets.


* Partner with distributor sales teams on customer visits, opportunity development, account strategy, and growth initiatives.


* Influence distributor stakeholders to prioritize Molex opportunities, uncover new applications, and increase customer engagement.


* Partner with distributor & internal teams to identify design opportunities, increase design registrations, and drive demand creation activities.


* Drive and track design-win activity, customer pipeline development, and opportunity conversion in collaboration with distributor and Molex resources.


* Establish and maintain monthly and quarterly operating cadences with distribution partners, including pipeline reviews, demand creation discussions, design-win reviews, and growth planning.


* Conduct quarterly business reviews to assess performance, identify opportunities, and align on future growth strategies.


* Lead distributor training initiatives that increase product knowledge, solution positioning, and sales effectiveness.


* Collaborate with sales, product management, marketing, sales operations, and business development teams to accelerate business growth.


* Support distributor registration programs and promote transparency and alignment across c...