Product Line Manager

About the role

Your Job Molex is expanding its Optical Solutions Business Unit and seeking a Product Line Manager to drive growth and innovation. In this role, you’ll collaborate with global teams across engineering, manufacturing, and sales to deliver customer-focused solutions and manage the product portfolio. You’ll lead strategy development, roadmap planning, and P&L management while engaging directly with customers to support pricing, commercialization, and marketing initiatives. Additional responsibilities include product training, web content, and sales enablement activities that help achieve divisional revenue goals.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the product strategy aligning with overall business objectives and market demands.
• Collaborate with engineering, design, and manufacturing teams to develop and launch new products. Ensure products meet quality standards and meet customer requirements.
• Work closely with sales and customer support teams to understand customer feedback and improve product offerings. Act as the voice of the customer within the organization.
• Develop pricing strategies that maximize profitability while remaining competitive in the market. Monitor product performance and adjust strategies as needed.
• Manage the product lifecycle and portfolio management activities.
• Establish and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure success. Use data to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Interact with manufacturing plants to lead cost reduction efforts, capacity planning, and quality improvement initiatives.
• Sales & Marketing
  • Aid 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.
  • Create and deliver technical product training and technical brochures to support the global sales force and customers.
  • Partner with the Molex worldwide sales engineers who are working with OEMs and Molex franchised distributors to design in Molex connectors & assemblies.
  • As needed, travel to meet with customers onsite to understand customer needs and ultimately design in products that meet & exceed customer requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience owning and managing a product line P&L, including pricing strategy, margin performance, and asset optimization.
• Experience leading end-to-end product lifecycle management, from new product introduction through extensions, cost-reduction initiatives, and end-of-life execution.
• Previous experience working with customers directly to establish VOC and developing a product strategy around that with respective teams.
• Strong cross-functional leadership skills, with experience orchestrating collaboration across engineering, sales, operations, and supply chain to ensure effective handoffs and requirements flow.
• Experience applying market and technical acumen to drive product strategy, including competitive positioning, customer value propositions, and SWOT analysis.
• Experience developing and executing pricing strategies and cost analysis to support profitable growth.
• Demonstrated effectiveness engaging directly with customers and internal business leaders, translating market needs into actionable product and roadmap decisions.
• Advanced communication skills, including experience preparing and delivering executive-level and customer-facing presentations.
• Capability and desire to influence, mentor, supervise, and develop others while representing the product line with credibility internally and externally.
• Willingness and ability to travel approximately 20–35% of the time in support of customers, business engagement, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, business, or a related discipline.

Pay

$130,000 - $180,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

Schedule

This is an onsite role based at our headquarters in Lisle, IL.