Product Specialist

Your Job

Molex is seeking a Product Specialist to join our Optical Connectivity Group, supporting Datacom and Medical products for global customers. In this role, you'll collaborate with Product Line Managers and Product Managers to execute strategic marketing, commercialization, and promotional plans that drive customer engagement and product adoption. You'll contribute to product training, web initiatives, sales releases, and marketing activities that help achieve divisional revenue goals. Additional responsibilities include coordinating sample shipments, supporting tradeshows, creating customer-facing collateral, and partnering with manufacturing teams on strategic initiatives, all while helping deliver innovative connectors and cable solutions that power today's data centers and prepare them for the future.

Location: This is an onsite role that can be based at our Lisle, IL, or Hudson, WI facilities.

What You Will Do

• Create & update product marketing collateral to promote products via website and other marketing channels
• Collaborate with engineering teams to create unified and standardized formatting for technical documents for each product family for a seamless customer experience
• Support Product Managers and New Product Development Managers with execution tasks such as order tracking, sample shipments, and prototype builds among other things
• Engage with PMs as needed to create/fine-tune product messaging for improved internal and external promotion, including but not limited to roadmaps, presentations, and brochures
• Work closely with the Molex MarCom team on product release documents taking new products to market through the standard process
• Review and execute strategies for various products pertaining to distribution partnerships, stocking packages, registrations, and other strategic distribution initiatives
• Learn necessary SAP functions/screens, BW reporting, and RPM Systems to support OCG PLMs by running various reports and analysis as needed
• Develop a knowledge of the Datacom & Medical industries, customers, and applicable Molex products through proactive investigation and customer engagement; expected to eventually lead product trainings

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in engineering, business or related discipline
• 1+ years' experience in engineering, sales, product development, marketing, or optical/electrical components
• Demonstrated skills in preparing and delivering presentations

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience working in connector industry
• Motivated individual with interest in high-speed, datacenter/hyperscale markets

For this role, we anticipate paying $80,000 - $100,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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Hiring Philosophy

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Who We Are

As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.

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Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu).

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