Vice President, Business Operations & Transformation

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Vice President, Business Operations & Transformation

Location(s)

Eden Prairie, Minnesota | Lisle, Illinois

Company

Molex

Career Field

Business Strategy & Development

Job Number

197604

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Molex Optical Connectivity Group (OCG) is entering a significant period of growth and transformation. Molex is seeking a Vice President, Business Operations & Transformation to enable the transformation & strategy on end to end business execution, from commercial demand and product readiness through capacity, supply, quality, cost, inventory, logistics, delivery, and cash realization.

This leader will work with each function to translate strategy into action and build the capabilities, processes, systems, operational strategy , footprint, operating cadence, decision rights, and accountability required for OCG to grow globally without adding unnecessary complexity.

Partnering with Manufacturing, Product Line Management, Engineering, Sales, Finance, Program Management, and Quality, this leader will develop the talent and organization needed to scale growth, manage increasing technology complexity, strengthen resilience, and improve business performance.

What You Will Do

Drive Business Performance and Strategy Execution

• Partner with functional leaders across OCG to achieve key objectives, identify revenue, margin, cost, working capital, and delivery gaps, and drive clear ownership and corrective action.
• Help shape business and next-generation strategy, and translate priorities into executable operating plans, measurable commitments, investment priorities, and organizational accountability.
• Build the metrics governance, decision rights, and leadership rhythms that give visibility to performance, surface issues early, and accelerate accountable decision-making.
• Make thoughtful trade-offs among service, investment, inventory, capacity, cost, resilience, and speed.

Support Global Operations and Manufacturing Strategy

• Work alongside leadership to develop and execute a global operations strategy aligned with OCG''s business priorities, product roadmap, growth plans, and customer requirements.
• Partner with Molex Factory leaders and Global Operations Committee to build alignment around the global manufacturing network. Determine where to build, expand, automate, optimize, transfer, or consolidate capability.
• Build capacity ahead of demand while maintaining disciplined capital governance, operational readiness, and sound economics.
• Drive performance in safety, quality, delivery, cost, productivity, inventory, working capital, and asset utilization.

Own the Global Supply Chain

• Set strategy across planning, sourcing, procurement, supplier development, logistics, inventory management, and supply continuity.
• Connect customer demand, capacity materials, labor, suppliers, inventory, and financial expectations through strong S&OP / IBP disciplines.
• Build strategic supplier partnerships that improve innovation, quality, cost, capacity, speed, and reslience.
• Identify and mitigate risks involving critical materials, technologies, suppliers, and geographies while protecting customer commitments.

Build an Integrated Demand-to-Cash System

• Build and lead the demand-to-cash operating model, connecting commercial demand, product and supply readiness, manufacturing execution, delivery, and cash realization.
• Establish the governance, ownership, systems, and processes that align customer demand and commercial commitments with prodcut maturity, resources, capacity, lead times, pricing, and contractual obligations.
• Strengthen product lifecycle discipline and new product introduction, connecting product strategy and development priorities with customer demand, resource allocation, and delivery commitments, and transferring new products into stable production.
• Establish clear decision rights, escalation paths, and operating cadences across the value chain so capacity, supply, quality, cost, and delivery risks are surfaced early and resolved at the right level.

Lead Transformation and Build Organizational Capability

• Build an integrated transformation roadmap connecting business growth with the process, technology, organizational, and capability investments required to support it, across Plan-to-Production, Source & Supply, Contract-to-Cash, New Product Introduction & Innovation, and Hiring.
• Build a common global operating system with meaningful KPI''s, management routines, repeatable playbooks, and fact-based accountability that work consistently across functions, regions, and sites.
• Advance automation, systems, modernization, digital manufacturing, analytics, advanced planning, and AI-enabled ways of working where they create measurable value.
• Simplify processes and build scalable systems that reduce dependence on individual intervention, and ensure new processes and systems become sustainable ways of working rather than one-time initiatives.
• Design the organization for future scale; develop global, regional, site, manufacturing, and supply chain leaders; and strengthen succession plan.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Significant executive leadership experience across global, multi-site manufacturing, operations, and supply chain in a complex technology, electronics, or industrial environment.
• Demonstrated success leading a business or operating model transformation from strategy through implementation and stabilization.
• Extensive experience in capacity planning, capital investment, manufacturing performance, planning, sourcing, suppliers, inventory, and logistics.
• Experience managing key financial performance drivers, invluding revenue, margin, cost, working capital, and delivery, and making complex tradeoffs among competing commercial, operational, and investment pirorities.
• Experience establishing governance, operating cadences, KPIs, decision rights, and accountability across a complex organization.
• Track record of developing senior leaders, building organizational capability, and working across Engineering, Product, Commercial, Finance, Quality, and Operations.
• Willingness and ability to travel domestically and internationally based on business needs.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Leadership experience in optical connectivity, data communications, electronics, semiconductors, networking, telecommunications, hyperscale infrastructure, or an adjacent technology market.
• Experience scaling technically complex global manufacturing, reshaping a manufacturing footprint, and transferring new products into stable production.
• Experience connecting strategy, organizational design, process, technology, data, and execution, and operating across both enterprise strategy and business execution.
• Experience implementing advanced planning, automation, digital manufacturing, operational analytics, or AI-enabled capabilities.

For this role, we anticipate paying $230,000 - $330,000 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. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and 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. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).

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