Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Associate Manager - Program

Program ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours

Full-timeDongguan, Guangdong Province, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A bachelor's degree or above is required.
Five to ten years of experience in the electronics field is required.
Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Mandarin are required.
Proficiency with PowerPoint, Microsoft Word, Excel, CRM, and SAP is required.
Ability to handle supervisory responsibilities in product marketing and product management for high-speed systems is required.
Understanding of detailed operations activities and ability to handle a small-scale operations cell are required.
Knowledge of formulating costs for both new product introduction and mass production is required.
Ability to champion profit and return on investment on behalf of global product managers, engage the plant, and lead cost-reduction efforts, capacity planning, and quality improvement to exceed business-plan goals is required.
Knowledge of PBM and ability to apply PBM throughout the business cycle and daily activities are required.

Responsibilities

Execute the CSBU project selection and product strategy framework for business development, resource allocation, and continuous improvement within the plant, linking the business-unit strategy framework to product and marketing efforts that support the business unit's mission, strategy, and goals.
Partner with GPM to understand new product and year-to-year business launches, growth status, customer strategy, target and market prices, lead times, and product strategy for products launched in the plant; work with GPM leadership to set the plant's annual revenue and profit budget and track monthly results.
Handle customer visits to the plant, present and promote plant capabilities, and coordinate with GPM and GPM leadership to present the product roadmap and capabilities when relevant to the visit.
Lead and coordinate plant operations teams and the business unit to develop solutions that optimize cost and lead time and increase the business pipeline; address escalations from GPM and GSM and coordinate timely support and responses with the corresponding plant teams to meet customer expectations on quality, delivery, and lead-time issues.
Coordinate sales and operations planning for new-product planning strategy and capacity-loading reviews, staging materials and capacity at the factory based on new-project launch status; coordinate with the planning team on existing-product capacity loading and work with GPM on capital investments and capacity expansion to meet customer expectations.
Support operations in reviewing excess materials and developing disposition proposals to minimize scrap and order-cancellation charges.
Coordinate plant product change notifications and engineering change notifications with GPM and GSM, including changes to production location, raw materials, suppliers, second sources, and process improvements.
Work with plant Finance to review new-investment project authorization requests before new-project launches and compare design manufacturing financial cost of goods sold and profit against actual results when new projects are handed over to operations.
Act as the project lead to drive cross-functional teams to identify risks, challenges, escalations, solutions, and action plans to address barriers during project execution and product development; identify new-product-introduction process gaps in the business unit and plant, streamline or optimize processes, and support safe product launches within Molex.
Support GPM in managing plant product lifecycle Phase 8 through end-of-life activities.
Perform other related duties as assigned by management.

Desired Qualifications

Experience in program management, project management, or marketing is preferred.
Experience with cable assembly or PCBA businesses is preferred.
Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Mandarin are preferred.
A broad range of experience, exposure, and activities across both new product introduction and operations is preferred.
A technical background is preferred.

POSITION NAME:	Associate Manager, Program	DIVISION OR CORPORATE FUNCTION:	DSS
REVISION DATE:	2026-04-20	LOCATION:	DG

REPORTS TO:

Zhang, Jay

SUPERVISES:

CONTACTS:

Internal – GSM, CSBU members and Manufacturing Operations members

External – Customers, Suppliers

PRIMARY PURPOSE:

Act as program management for the DSS cable business and profit

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

1.	Execute CSBU Project Selection &Product Strategy framework for business development, Resource allocation & work continuous improvement action inside plant, linkage business unit strategy framework to ensure that the product and marketing efforts are tailored to support business unitoverall mission, strategy, and goals
2.	Work with GPM as business partner to understand new product and projectY to Y business launch,growth status, customer strategy ,target/market price , L/T,product strategy for those product launch in the plant.Work with GPM leader to set therevenue and profitbudget in plant annually and tracking the result by every month
3.	Handle the customer plant visiting and present/promote plant capability and coordinate with GPM/GPM leader to present the product roadmap and capability if customer visit purpose with including this
4.	Lead/coordinate Plant Operation Teams and BU to offer solution to optimize cost and L/T to increase business pipeline Address the escalation from GPM/GSM & coordinate with plant corresponding team with quick support and respond to fulfil customer expectation, such as quality or delivery, L/T issue
5.	Coordinate S&OP for new product planning strategy& capacity loading review to stage the material and capacity at factory base on new project launch status Coordinate with planning team to review existing products capacity loading and work with GPM for capital investments and drive the capacity expansion to meet customer expectation
6.	Support operation to review excess material and work on disposition proposal to minimize the scrap and order cancellation for charge
7.	Coordinate the PCN/ECN in plant with GPM & GSM such as production location change, raw materials change, supplier change, 2nd source, process improvement and so on
8.	Co-work with plant Finance to review the new investment PAR before new project launch. Compare DMF COGS/Profit Vs Actual when new project handover to operation
9.	Act as Project role for project to drive X-functional team to Identify risk, challenges, escalation, solutions & action plan to solve barriers during the project execution & product development activity. Identify NPI process gap in BU and plant, seek for streamline/optimize the process and product safety launch inside Molex
10.	Support GPM to manage product Phase 8 ~ EOL activities in Plant
11.	Perform other related duties as assigned by management

SCOPE:

High Performance Cable Assembly Products & relate new PCBA development

EDUCATION:

REQUIRED:	Bachelor Degree or above
PREFERRED:	Program Management or Project Management or Marketing experiences.

WORK EXPERIENCE:

REQUIRED:	5~10 years in electronic field
PREFERRED:	Experience in cable assembly or PCBA business is preferred.

SKILLS & ABILITIES:

REQUIRED:

Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Mandarin.
Power Point, MS Word, Excel, CRM and SAP.
Handle supervisory position in terms of product marketing, product management with high speed systems.
Understand the detailed operations activities and able to handle the small scale of operations cell.
Knowledge of how to formulate the costing in both NPI and mass productions.
Ability of champion profit and return on investment in behalf of global product managers to engage the plant and lead the cost reduction efforts, capacity planning and quality improvement to exceed business plan goals.
Knowledge of PBM and apply PBM through the entire business cycle and daily activities

PREFERRED:

Excellent interpersonal and presentation skills in English and Mandarin
Have the wide range of experience, exposures, and activities inside both NPI and operations
With technical background

About the Company

Koch Industries

Private conglomerate in energy and materials

Koch Industries is a large, private, diversified conglomerate that operates in energy, chemical processing, and manufacturing. It started from an innovation that turned heavy crude oil into gasoline and grew through long‑term investments rather than short‑term market moves. The company generates value by refining fuels and producing chemical products, and it operates Georgia-Pacific, a major maker of paper and building products. Its business model relies on reinvesting most earnings back into the company to fund steady, long‑term growth rather than paying out frequent dividends or seeking quick profits. Koch differentiates itself from many competitors by staying privately owned, which reduces pressure from public markets and enables longer‑range planning. The company’s goal is to build scale and durability across its holdings by sustainable, multi‑decade growth rather than rapid, episodic gains.

Company size: 5,001-10,000
Company stage: Growth Equity (Non-Venture Capital)
Total funding: $985.2M
Headquarters: Wichita, KS
Founded: 1940

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