Your Job

As the local High Power Product Manager based at our Penang, Malaysia plant, you will represent the high-power product portfolio for the Power & Signal Business Unit (PSBU). You will drive new product development and manufacturability, lead technical discussions with manufacturing, coordinate supplier and customer interactions across Southeast Asia, and own product launch readiness activities such as SAP material master loading, inventory strategy, product costing, and VAVE validation to ensure timely, cost-effective production and ramp of high-power products.

Our Team

You will join Molex's Power & Signal Business Unit (PSBU) within the high-power group at the Penang, Malaysia plant. The team supports rapid BU growth and products that enable technologies such as artificial intelligence, working closely with Manufacturing Engineers, regional Global Commodity Managers, Finance, suppliers, and customers across Southeast Asia.

What You Will Do

Serve as the local High Power Product Manager representative at the Penang plant, acting as the primary product contact for plant, supplier, and customer issues.

New Product Development

Participate in core team meetings
Lead technical discussions with our Manufacturing Engineers to ensure the manufacturability and cost effectiveness of their proposed solutions
Drive plant to meet or beat targeted completion dates
Accelerate loading of SAP material master
Track and prioritize customer sample requests
Determine our initial inventory strategy

Plant

Ensure plant has sufficient capacity to meet our demand forecast
Monitor and update our inventory strategy as volumes ramp
Identify lead time and cost improvements

Suppliers

Assist our regional Global Commodity Managers (GCMs)
Determine whether our existing suppliers should continue to be on our approved vendor list
Review each approved supplier's product capacity and address any supply issues
Identify new suppliers who can provide new capabilities or additional capacity

Product costing review

Ensure local Finance is appropriately updating our product cost
Value Adding & Value Engineering (VAVE) activities
Review plant VAVE projects to set priority and validate the proposed cost saving

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Bachelor's degree in a business or technical discipline, or equivalent experience.
Minimum 5 years of product marketing experience supporting a manufacturing plant, ideally in electronics, interconnect, electromechanical, or similar technology industries.
Fluent communication skills in English and Mandarin Chinese.
functional and external stakeholders.
Solid understanding of business metrics used to fund programs and measure product success; willingness to travel to suppliers and customers as required.

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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.

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