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The Divisional Marketing Director will lead the Aerospace and Defense marketing initiatives at a strategic level. The selected candidate will be responsible for driving marketing plan development aligned to the strategic business plan and goals, evaluating business opportunities and developing digital and strategic marketing strategies in support of a highly integrated marketing execution plan. The candidate will build demand, awareness, differentiated competitive advantage and positioning for the Molex brand and division.

Serving as the point person for all marketing-related activities with Global Strategic Marketing, the candidate will own the responsibility to shape the overall marketing agenda for the ADS division, driving strategy and critical activities and programs with support from Strategic Marketing. The candidate will also be primarily responsible for driving analytics to demonstrate Return on Investment, as well as direct influence on pipeline and revenue generation.

Our Team

You’ll join a dynamic Aerospace and Defense division within Molex, where we collaborate across global strategic marketing and engineering teams to deliver mission-critical solutions for commercial aircraft, defense, and space exploration. Our team thrives on innovation and partnership, driving strategies that shape the future of connectivity in the most demanding environments.

What You Will Do In Your Role

• Drive key marketing projects, including overall strategy, target persona identification and build out, digital and physical material development and messaging, including growth in the following categories:
  • Commercial Aircraft
  • Defense
  • Space Exploration
• Lead special projects to improve customer traction and engagement with projects to include, but not be limited to:
  • M2X
  • Integration of Smiths Interconnect
  • Assessing the buying process and engaging the new generation of design engineers with digital work practices
  • Experimenting on distributor engagement programs to determine price elasticity and propensity to purchase
  • Assessing competitor strengths and weaknesses for differentiated value alignment
  • Developing account-based marketing plans to drive pipeline and revenue growth
  • Industry, Event, Social Media and Public Relations strategy development and execution with Strategic Marketing Centers of Excellence.
  • Refine the internal vision statement and translation of that message into ADS’s customer and market-facing message and value proposition.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience running marketing strategy and execution
• Experience in the Aerospace and Defense market
• Strong understanding of business strategies and impacts of market trends and shifts
• Proven marketing campaign experience
• Strong copywriting skills
• Messaging and positioning expertise
• Experience managing a budget
• High competence in project and stakeholder management
• Excellent interpersonal, written and oral communication experience

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Communications
• Salesforce expertise
• Business-to-Business and Manufacturing marketing expertise highly preferred

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.

Who We Are

As a leader in aerospace and defense electronics, AirBorn, a Molex company, is a leader committed to engineering and manufacturing excellence.With a legacy of over six decades, we take pride in our team of passionate and skilled professionals who play a pivotal role in developing and manufacturing mission-critical products. Our cutting-edge solutions are not only found on Mars, in fighter jets, submarines, and in the far reaches of space. We understand the mission critical environments in which our products operate, and our commitment to excellence drives us to ensure their unwavering reliability. Whether you are a seasoned industry expert or have fresh talent seeking to soar in your career, we invite you to embark on a journey of creativity, growth, and achievement with us.

Discover how your talents can take flight and make an impactful contribution to our mission-critical endeavors at AirBorn!

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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, aquí, or tu).