Director Product Management
Koch Industries
Director Product Management
Koch Industries
Private conglomerate in energy and materials
What You Will Do
·Lead the product management strategy for the OCS business and translate market, customer, technology, and competitive insights into clear portfolio priorities and growth plans.
·Own the product portfolio lifecycle, including market segmentation, value proposition, product roadmap, new product development priorities, launch, positioning, pricing, profitability improvement, rationalization, and end-of-life decisions.
·Develop a fact-based understanding of target markets, customer needs, applications, industry trends, technology shifts, competitive dynamics, and regional opportunities to guide resource allocation and strategic choices.
·Partner with Sales, Engineering, Operations, Finance, Supply Chain, Marketing, Quality, and regional teams to build and execute global product line strategies.
·Define product and platform roadmaps that balance near-term customer opportunities with long-term capability, technology, and business objectives.
·Build robust business cases for new products, platforms, and investments, including customer value, market potential, differentiation, cost position, pricing logic, risks, and financial return.
·Provide product leadership throughout the NPI process by clarifying customer and market requirements, aligning priorities, enabling timely decisions, and ensuring launch readiness and commercial adoption.
·Drive portfolio profitability through value-based pricing, product mix optimization, cost and complexity management, design-to-value, and disciplined management of low-return products or variants.
·Establish global product management operating mechanisms, including portfolio reviews, roadmap governance, opportunity prioritization, KPI tracking, and decision rights.
·Enable the commercial organization with clear product positioning, application and value messages, competitive intelligence, launch materials, and customer-facing product strategy support.
·Build trusted relationships with strategic customers and ecosystem partners to identify unmet needs, validate roadmaps, and shape differentiated solutions.
·Lead, coach, and develop a global product management team; strengthen succession, talent deployment, product leadership capability, and collaboration across regions.
·Communicate product strategy, business performance, risks, trade-offs, and investment recommendations clearly to senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
Education:
·Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related field; a technical degree is strongly preferred.
·MBA or equivalent advanced business qualification preferred.
Experience:
·Typically 15+ years of experience across product management, business management, strategy, engineering, sales, or related commercial/technical roles, including leadership responsibility.
·Demonstrated success leading global product portfolios in electronics, connectivity, optical communications, data communications, or another relevant technology-driven business.
·Proven experience in portfolio strategy, product roadmap development, NPI, market analysis, pricing, profitability management, and cross-functional execution.
·Experience influencing across regions and functions in a complex multinational matrix organization.
What Will Put You Ahead
·Strong strategic product leadership with the ability to connect customer needs, technology choices, operational capability, and financial outcomes.
·Deep capability in market segmentation, voice of customer, competitive analysis, portfolio management, product lifecycle management, financial analysis, and value-based pricing.
·Strong business acumen and comfort making resource-allocation recommendations under uncertainty and competing priorities.
·Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders and align global, regional, commercial, technical, and operational teams without relying solely on formal authority.
·Excellent executive communication, storytelling, negotiation, and decision-framing skills.
·Strong people leadership and talent-development capability across cultures and geographies.
·Fluent English communication required; additional language capability is an advantage.
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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.
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.
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.
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