Head of Product Development Transformation

Molex
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Illinois, Lisle
2222 Wellington Court (Show on map)
Sep 17, 2026
Head of Product Development Transformation, Shared Capabilities Your Job Molex is seeking a Head of Shared Capabilities to help transform how we develop, launch, and scale products across our global organization. This role will lead enterprise-wide initiatives that improve the effectiveness of product development by connecting business priorities with digital capabilities, data, artificial intelligence, process improvement, and organizational effectiveness. Working across the organization, you will identify opportunities to reduce complexity, improve decision-making, accelerate execution, and create measurable business value. Success in this role requires more than strategy development. The ideal candidate is a transformation leader who has successfully aligned stakeholders, influenced without formal authority, and delivered meaningful change across complex organizations. Within the first 18 months, you will build trusted partnerships, identify high-impact improvement opportunities, establish alignment around a future-state vision, and drive implementation of capabilities that improve business performance across the product development lifecycle. This is a unique opportunity to shape an emerging enterprise capability and help define the future of product development at Molex. The successful candidate will be energized by building something new, solving complex business challenges, and creating long-term value through collaboration, influence, and execution. This position reports to the Vice President, Global Product Development and is based in Lisle, Illinois. The role requires approximately 30-40% global travel. Our Team The Shared Capabilities team partners across Global Product Development and the broader Molex organization to identify common needs, strengthen enterprise capabilities, and accelerate value creation. The team brings together diverse perspectives and expertise to solve shared challenges, reduce unnecessary complexity, and enable sustainable transformation. What You Will Do Establish and communicate the long-term vision, strategy, priorities, and measurable outcomes for Shared Capabilities. Lead a multidisciplinary team responsible for advancing scalable capabilities across Global Product Development. Partner with leaders across Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Quality, Supply Chain, Operations, and Digital organizations to align priorities and accelerate enterprise value creation. Identify and prioritize opportunities to improve launch performance, quality, productivity, traceability, collaboration, and business outcomes. Develop governance, investment, and prioritization mechanisms that align resources with the opportunities expected to create the greatest value. Advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, data, and digital capabilities to improve decision-making, productivity, and operational effectiveness. Establish measurement systems that connect capability investments to business outcomes, adoption, and realized value. Build enterprise capability by coaching leaders and team members, sharing knowledge, and creating opportunities for individuals to contribute according to their strengths. Promote experimentation, challenge assumptions, remove barriers, and create learning loops that help the organization continuously improve. Influence enterprise outcomes through collaboration, partnership, and credibility rather than relying solely on formal authority. Communicate strategy, progress, tradeoffs, risks, and results clearly to executive leadership and other stakeholders. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) 12+ years of progressive leadership experience across Product Development, Engineering, Manufacturing, Operations, Supply Chain, Digital Transformation, or related business functions. Proven success leading enterprise-wide transformation initiatives across complex, matrixed organizations and influencing outcomes beyond direct reporting relationships. Experience developing enterprise strategies and translating them into prioritized roadmaps, governance models, investment decisions, and measurable business outcomes. Experience leading leaders and multidisciplinary teams while aligning diverse stakeholders around shared priorities, accountability, and execution. Demonstrated success delivering measurable business value through digital, AI, automation, analytics, or operational transformation initiatives. What Will Put You Ahead Experience leading the design, development, and manufacturing of connectors, interconnect systems, cable assemblies, or other electronic connectivity components within a global manufacturing environment. Experience transforming product development, New Product Introduction (NPI), Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), systems engineering, or engineering execution processes. Experience implementing PLM, digital thread, configuration management, traceability, requirements management, or enterprise engineering systems. Experience scaling AI, automation, analytics, or digital solutions from pilot programs to enterprise-wide adoption with measurable business outcomes. Experience establishing governance, portfolio management, investment prioritization, and value realization frameworks. Experience leading large-scale global transformation efforts and building enterprise capabilities, communities of practice, or centers of excellence. For this role, we anticipate paying $180,000 - $260,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy. Sponsorship & Relocation We welcome candidates who are open to relocating for this opportunity. Relocation and sponsorship assistance may be available based on business needs and candidate circumstances Hiring Philosophy All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here. 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. Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter. 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. Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aqui, or tu). #LI-LAL #LI-ONSITE