Home Appliance Account Manager - Turkey

Molex; Konak; On-site; TRY 600,000 - 1,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Molex is seeking a Home Appliance Account Manager to drive growth across Turkey by developing strategic customer partnerships and converting opportunities into revenue.

The role involves building relationships with appliance manufacturers, suppliers, and ecosystem partners, coordinating with engineering, procurement, operations, and commercial teams to position Molex solutions and deliver long-term value. Travel across Turkey is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Experience in account management, business development, technical sales, or customer-facing commercial roles within the Home Appliance industry.
• Proven success managing customer relationships and growing strategic accounts.
• Ability to understand technical customer requirements and align them with commercial solutions.
• Strong consultative selling, account planning, negotiation, and opportunity management skills.
• Excellent relationship-building and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Self-motivated and comfortable working independently while collaborating within an international organization.
• Fluent Turkish and professional working proficiency in English.
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively within Turkey and occasionally internationally.
• Valid driving licence.

Responsibilities

• Develop and grow assigned Home Appliance accounts across Turkey.
• Build trusted relationships with engineering, procurement, operations, quality, supply chain, and commercial stakeholders.
• Create and execute strategic account plans focused on growth, profitability, and customer success.
• Identify and develop new applications, platforms, and business opportunities.
• Drive technical demand creation by understanding customer architectures and positioning appropriate Molex solutions.
• Secure design wins and manage opportunities throughout the full sales cycle through production launch and revenue realization.
• Support commercial activities including pricing, quotations, negotiations, forecasting, and contract management.
• Coordinate cross-functional resources to ensure successful customer outcomes.
• Communicate customer requirements and market needs to engineering, product management, and innovation teams.
• Monitor industry trends, competitive activity, manufacturing investments, and emerging technologies within the Turkish Home Appliance market.
• Maintain accurate CRM and forecast information.
• Represent Molex at customer meetings, technical workshops, supplier events, and industry exhibitions.

Skills

Account management

Business development

Technical sales

Relationship building

Negotiation

Opportunity management

Cross-functional collaboration

Sales forecasting

Sales cycles

Customer facing

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business

Tools

Salesforce

SAP

Job description

Your Job

Are you an experienced sales professional with a strong understanding of the Home Appliance industry and a passion for developing strategic customer partnerships?

Your Job

Are you an experienced sales professional with a strong understanding of the Home Appliance industry and a passion for developing strategic customer partnerships? Molex is seeking a Home Appliance Account Manager to drive growth across Turkey by developing customer relationships, creating new design opportunities, and converting those opportunities into sustainable revenue. Reporting to the Home Appliance Sales Manager, Europe, you will work closely with engineering, procurement, operations, quality, supply chain, and commercial stakeholders to position Molex solutions and deliver long‑term customer value. This is a field-based role with significant customer‑facing activity. The preferred location is within the industrial corridor between Eskisehir and Cerkezkoy, enabling effective support of key appliance manufacturers, suppliers, and ecosystem partners.

Our Team

You will join Molex's European Home Appliance vertical and collaborate with regional sales teams, product divisions, engineering, marketing, customer service, operations, supply chain, finance, and distribution partners. As the primary customer leader for your assigned accounts, you will connect customer priorities with Molex capabilities and ensure successful execution across a global matrix organization.

What You Will Do

• Develop and grow assigned Home Appliance accounts across Turkey.
• Build trusted relationships with engineering, procurement, operations, quality, supply chain, and commercial stakeholders.
• Create and execute strategic account plans focused on growth, profitability, and customer success.
• Identify and develop new applications, platforms, and business opportunities.
• Drive technical demand creation by understanding customer architectures and positioning appropriate Molex solutions.
• Secure design wins and manage opportunities throughout the full sales cycle through production launch and revenue realization.
• Support commercial activities including pricing, quotations, negotiations, forecasting, and contract management.
• Coordinate cross‑functional resources to ensure successful customer outcomes.
• Communicate customer requirements and market needs to engineering, product management, and innovation teams.
• Monitor industry trends, competitive activity, manufacturing investments, and emerging technologies within the Turkish Home Appliance market.
• Maintain accurate CRM and forecast information.
• Represent Molex at customer meetings, technical workshops, supplier events, and industry exhibitions.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, or a related field.
• Experience in account management, business development, technical sales, or customer‑facing commercial roles within the Home Appliance industry.
• Proven success managing customer relationships and growing strategic accounts.
• Ability to understand technical customer requirements and align them with commercial solutions.
• Strong consultative selling, account planning, negotiation, and opportunity management skills.
• Excellent relationship‑building and stakeholder management capabilities.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Self‑motivated and comfortable working independently while collaborating within an international organization.
• Fluent Turkish and professional working proficiency in English.
• Ability and willingness to travel extensively within Turkey and occasionally internationally.
• Valid driving licence.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Established relationships with major Home Appliance manufacturers, suppliers, or technology partners in Turkey.
• Knowledge of appliance connectivity, sensing, automation, user interface, power, or smart‑appliance technologies.
• Experience selling connectors, interconnect solutions, cable assemblies, sensors, antennas, or related technologies.
• Track record of securing design wins and converting opportunities into production revenue.
• Understanding of the Home Appliance manufacturing ecosystem across the Eskisehir‑Cerkezkoy corridor and surrounding regions.
• Experience working with European or global account structures.
• Experience using Salesforce, SAP, or comparable CRM and ERP systems.

Location & Travel

This position is field‑based in Turkey, with a preference for candidates located between Eskisehir and Cerkezkoy. Frequent travel throughout Turkey is required, along with occasional international travel.

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. At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company. 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.