Global Product Manager

Global Product Manager at Koch IP Holdings, LLC. located in Pudong, Shanghai. The Global Product Manager for the Molex Copper Solutions Business Unit will support and grow a major enterprise interconnect product line serving the datacenter, networking, server, storage, communications, and broader electronics hardware markets. This is a well-established, highly successful platform with significant annual revenue and strong profitability. While mature relative to Molex’s newest advanced interconnect platforms, it remains a critical solution for many global customers and an important part of Molex’s enterprise hardware portfolio. The role focuses on commercial product management, including maintaining profitability, supporting strategic customers, managing pricing discipline, leading customer negotiations, enabling sales, protecting existing business, and selectively pursuing new opportunities where the product line continues to provide strong customer value. The ideal candidate is commercially minded, organized, proactive, globally collaborative, and comfortable working across sales, engineering, operations, finance, quality, and manufacturing teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the global commercial performance of the assigned product line, including revenue, profitability, pricing, forecast accuracy, margin improvement, lifecycle management, and customer support priorities.
• Develop and execute product-line business plans that protect and grow revenue across enterprise, datacenter, networking, server, storage, industrial, communications, and other strategic customers.
• Maintain strong profitability through proactive pricing actions, disciplined quote management, customer negotiations, cost-reduction initiatives, value-based selling, and commercial decision-making.
• Partner with global sales, business development, customer service, finance, engineering, operations, quality, and manufacturing teams to support existing customers and identify opportunities for continued growth.
• Lead customer pricing discussions and commercial negotiations in partnership with sales teams, including annual price reviews, contract discussions, cost pass-throughs, special pricing requests, and margin improvement opportunities.
• Monitor product-line profitability by customer, region, part family, and application, and take proactive action to address margin erosion, unfavorable mix, cost increases, or pricing inconsistencies.
• Support sales teams with product positioning, customer presentations, competitive comparisons, pricing guidance, and commercial strategy for both existing business and selective new opportunities.
• Work closely with operations and supply chain teams to support capacity planning, forecast alignment, inventory management, lead-time expectations, and customer demand changes.
• Partner with manufacturing, quality, and engineering teams to ensure product performance, quality, and delivery meet customer needs and business objectives.