Product Specialist

Koch; Eden Prairie (MN); On-site; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

Retirement

Paid vacation/time off

Educational assistance

Infertility assistance

Paid parental leave

Adoption assistance

Job summary

Molex is seeking a Product Specialist to join our Optical Connectivity Group, supporting Datacom and Medical products for global customers. You’ll collaborate with Product Line Managers to execute marketing, commercialization, and promotional plans driving engagement and product adoption, contributing to training, web initiatives, and sales releases that help achieve revenue goals.

This onsite role can be based at Lisle, IL, or Hudson, WI facilities.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or related discipline.
• Minimum 1 year of experience in engineering, sales, product development, marketing, or optical/electrical components.
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations.

Responsibilities

• Create and update product collateral for websites and marketing channels.
• Collaborate with engineering to standardize technical documents per product family.
• Support PMs with order tracking, samples, and prototype builds.
• Refine product messaging including roadmaps, presentations, and brochures.
• Work with MarCom on product release documents to take products to market.
• Review strategies for distribution partnerships, stocking, registrations.
• Learn SAP, BW reporting, and RPM Systems to support PLMs with reports.
• Build knowledge of Datacom & Medical markets and lead product trainings later.
• Experience in the connector industry.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in engineering, business or related discipline

Tools

SAP

BW reporting

RPM Systems

Job description

Location(s): Eden Prairie, Minnesota | Hudson, Wisconsin | Lisle, Illinois

Company: Molex

Career Field: Marketing

Job Number: 195090

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.

Visa sponsorship his not available for this role.

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
• Minimum of 1 year of experience in engineering, sales, product development, marketing, or optical/electrical components
• Experience preparing and delivering presentations

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience working in the connector industry

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.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

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.

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.

• medical
• dental
• vision
• flexible spending and health savings accounts
• life insurance
• ADD
• disability
• retirement
• paid vacation/time off
• educational assistance
• infertility assistance
• paid parental leave
• 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.

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