Product Manager - Melbourne, Australia - Molex

Description

Your Job

This is an exciting 12-month opportunity to join a global team and to stamp your thoughts and ideas for product management in the Southern Hemisphere.

Your brief has a regional requirement to understand our customer needs for network structured cabling.

You will be initially working alongside our senior product manager managing on product development life cycle and executing on the business plans.

Key goals include managing the legacy customer quote tool and project managing the team to develop its replacement. Additional you will be identifying market opportunities through research and collaborating with local sales to support their business plan.

Then taking these opportunities to delivery timely product introductions by coordinating a range of departmental teams, from technical, supply chain to manufacturing.

Our Team
You will report to Director of Marketing and Product Management


What You Will Do

• An important aspect of the role will be to understand and manage the company's existing customer quote tool, and to support in the management of its replacement. You will be supported by our senior product manager before their extended leave of absence.
• As a product manager you will be responsible for leading the execution of a product roadmap for structured cabling features and contribute to the development lifecycle and continual improvement of the business.
• Bring key business skills to enable monitoring, planning, execution, and delivery of projects on time, in budget, and within the defined scope. Tracks status and manage teams to mitigate issues and risks.
• Define, analyses and communicate commercial product metrics thereby capturing product profitability, trends, along with recommendations.
• Support and advice to other product team members, which involves organizing product weekly/monthly reviews across multiple time zones.
• A key regional focus will be supporting Australia, with additional support for South Africa.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• You will be based in Australia, ideally Victoria, operating a hybrid work pattern from home and our Cobblebank office.
• It is helpful to have experience within our technology sector for fiber and/or copper connectivity, but not essential.
• Proficiency in MS Excel along with Excel macros and database interaction is important.
• Experience as a technical/product manager.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field, other relevant experience will be considered.
• A good command of English, both written and verbal is essential.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, as well as the ability to interact across all levels of the organization.

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.

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