Job Title: Global Category Manager
Category: Non-Metallics Direct Materials
Location: Rochester Hills, MI (Onsite)
Your Job
As Global Category Manager, Non-Metallics, you will define and lead the global procurement strategy for seals, gaskets, and nonmetallic materials used across Molex's worldwide businesses. This role plays a critical part in enabling cost competitiveness, supplier resilience, and scalable growth by aligning sourcing strategy with engineering, manufacturing, and business priorities.
You will lead in a highly matrixed global environment, partnering across cross functional teams and regional stakeholders to drive total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements, elevate supplier performance, and embed best in class procurement practices. This global leadership role, managing two direct reports, requires strong strategic thinking, influence without authority, and the ability to lead complex change initiatives.
Our Team
You will join Molex's Global Procurement organization, partnering closely with category leaders, business procurement teams, engineering, operations, quality, and supply chain leaders across regions. Our team works collaboratively across Molex divisions and Koch entities to create value through Principle Based Management (PBM), applying principled decisionmaking, economic thinking, and comparative advantage to drive global alignment, continuous improvement, and longterm results.
This role offers meaningful exposure across the enterprise and the opportunity to shape how Molex sources and manages critical direct materials on a global scale.
What You Will Do
Category Strategy & Value Creation
Develop and execute global category strategies for nonmetallic materials aligned with Molex and business unit objectives
Define category taxonomy, baselines, and analytics to support total cost of ownership (TCO) improvements
Identify and deliver cost reduction and cost avoidance opportunities while balancing quality, service, and risk
Supplier & Stakeholder Leadership
Lead global supplier strategies, including selection, portfolio optimization, and relationship management
Negotiate and align supplier portfolios that meet strategic, technical, and commercial needs
Serve as a trusted partner to engineering, operations, and business leaders, influencing decisions through data and insight
Global Alignment & Collaboration
Drive cross regional collaboration and adoption of category strategies across Molex businesses
Partner with procurement leaders across Molex divisions and Koch entities to identify synergies and best practices
Act as the primary procurement point of contact for identifying category synergies related to new acquisitions
Governance, Risk & Continuous Improvement
Provide global leadership for supplier material traceability initiatives
Monitor market dynamics, supplier performance, and risk across regions
Ensure compliance with Molex policies and relevant regulatory, quality, and environmental standards
Lead category related projects and continuous improvement initiatives across the enterprise
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
8+ years of experience in direct material procurement or sourcing within a manufacturing or industrial environment
3+ years of experience owning category management activities, including category strategy development, supplier negotiations, and spend or portfolio decisions
Demonstrated leadership through mentoring others, guiding cross functional teams, or leading initiatives
Ability to work effectively in a global, matrixed organization and influence across functions
Proficiency in English sufficient to communicate effectively in a global business environment
Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain, engineering, finance, or a related field
What Will Put You Ahead
Experience managing direct reports or formally leading a team
Experience leading global category management across multiple regions or business units
Background partnering closely with engineering, operations, or manufacturing teams
Experience working with international suppliers and culturally diverse, virtual teams
Demonstrated success driving change, alignment, and adoption of new ways of working
Master's degree or advanced training in business, supply chain, engineering, or related disciplines
Why This Role
This role offers the opportunity to:
Own and shape a global direct materials category with meaningful enterprise impact
Influence strategy and outcomes across Molex and Koch entities
Work at scale in a role that blends strategy, leadership, and execution
Grow as a global procurement leader in a principled, values driven organization
For this role, we anticipate paying $110,000 to $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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Hiring Philosophy
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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... For full info follow application link.
