VP, Global Category Management – Electronics

Position title: VP, Global Category Management – Electronics

The VP, Global Category Management – Electronics is an enterprise leadership role accountable for defining and executing Molex's global electronics category strategy. This executive will shape and govern a resilient, innovative, and cost-competitive supply ecosystem that enables Molex's growth strategy across all five divisions while elevating supplier collaboration, technology alignment, and supply assurance in a fast-paced global environment.

This leader will operate as a strategic partner to the Molex executive team and divisional leadership, driving category decisions that directly influence product competitiveness, time-to-market, working capital, risk posture, and profitability. The role requires executive presence, strong external influence with strategic suppliers, and the ability to lead globally through complexity and change.

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise Category Strategy & Business Outcomes

• Own and evolve the global electronics category vision, multi-year strategy, and governance model, ensuring alignment with Molex enterprise priorities, divisional P&L objectives, and product roadmaps.

• Drive measurable outcomes across cost competitiveness, supply continuity, innovation enablement, working capital efficiency, and risk reduction.

• Establish category operating mechanisms, executive dashboards, and performance routines to ensure transparency and accountability across the enterprise.

• Global Supply Base Architecture & Technology Alignment

• Architect and continuously optimize a world-class global supply base capable of supporting Molex's scale, technology trajectory, and regional manufacturing footprint.

• Lead supplier portfolio design across strategic partnerships, dual/multi-sourcing, regionalization, and capacity strategies to improve resilience and agility.

• Ensure supplier technology roadmaps are proactively aligned with Molex product and platform roadmaps; sponsor executive-level roadmap reviews and joint innovation planning.

• Supplier Governance, Performance & Executive Relationships

• Set and oversee enterprise standards for Supplier Relationship Management (SRM), including segmentation, governance, performance management, and executive escalation paths.

• Build and maintain C-suite-level relationships with strategic suppliers to influence investment decisions, capacity allocation, quality priorities, and technology collaboration.

• Lead strategic supplier engagements including Executive Business Reviews (EBRs), QBRs, joint technology councils, and contract/partnership negotiations.

• Cross-Functional Enterprise Leadership

• Partner across Business Units, Engineering, R&D, Product Management, Operations, Quality, Finance, Legal, and Risk to ensure category decisi