Koch Industries

Business Operations Manager

Koch Industries$120K — $160K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in operational or administrative roles
  • Strong organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities
  • Proactive attitude with the ability to anticipate needs
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience supporting leaders and operational initiatives
  • Ability to work in fast-paced, high-growth environments
  • Familiarity with coordinating complex projects across multiple teams

Responsibilities

  • Enable leadership by managing operational flow and logistics
  • Coordinate and oversee the setup of new sites and teams
  • Track operational readiness across various functions like HR and IT
  • Plan and execute key organizational and leadership events
  • Organize team meetings and ensure effective communication during events
  • Support logistical arrangements for domestic and international travel
  • Identify and help establish systems for better work coordination and visibility

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans with company contributions
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance programs
  • Support for infertility and adoption assistance
  • Paid parental leave options
Full Job Description
Your Job

The Molex Optical Connectivity Group is scaling at a pace that requires more than just execution-it requires coordination, visibility, and structure across a rapidly evolving global organization.

This role exists to: Enable leaders and teams to operate at scale by bringing clarity, coordination, and execution discipline to the operational work that keeps the business moving. You will sit at the center of leadership, hiring, site expansion, and team operations-ensuring that priorities translate into action and that nothing critical gets lost as the organization grows.

What You Will Do

Enable Leadership Execution

You ensure leaders can focus on the highest-value decisions by managing the operational flow around them.

You will:
  • Anticipate leadership needs and remove friction in day-to-day execution
  • Coordinate complex calendars across global teams and time zones
  • Prepare agendas, materials, and track follow-ups to ensure decisions turn into action
  • Draft communications, presentations, and correspondence in leadership's voice
  • Organize leadership meetings and maintain visibility into priorities and commitments


Coordinate Growth & Scaling Initiatives

You help translate rapid growth into organized, executable plans.

You will:
  • Coordinate activities required to bring new sites and teams online
  • Track readiness across workspace, equipment, systems, and operational needs
  • Partner with HR, IT, Facilities, and Operations to ensure teams are ready to perform
  • Maintain visibility into timelines, milestones, and dependencies across initiatives
  • Support planning and execution of key leadership and organizational events
  • Support planning and execution of key customer and market events in coordination with Molex marketing team
  • Support building and maintaining of product demo rooms at key sites in Eden Prairie, Lisle, Fremont, Bridgewater, Taiwan and others as needed


Site Manager for Eden Prairie Office

You ensure Eden Prairie Office runs smoothly

You will:
  • Maintain relationship with Koch real estate and landlord
  • Track readiness across workspace, equipment, systems, and operational needs
  • Partner with HR, IT, Facilities, to keep site running smoothly
  • Plan local events for Eden Prairie and Hudson sites
  • Help on boarding of new hires


Run the Operational Backbone (Administrative & Coordination Layer)

You own the systems and coordination work that keeps the organization functioning smoothly.

You will:
  • Coordinate domestic and international travel logistics
  • Manage travel expenses and reporting from time to time
  • Organize shared resources, documents, and collaboration tools (e.g., SharePoint)
  • Coordinate team meetings, offsites, and planning sessions
  • Support internal and external events involving leadership
  • Ensure operational tasks are executed consistently and without gaps


Help Build Scalable Operating Rhythm

As the organization grows, you will help move from reactive coordination to repeatable systems.

You will:
  • Identify gaps in how work is tracked, coordinated, and communicated
  • Help establish simple systems that improve visibility and execution
  • Bring structure to ambiguous or fast-moving situations
  • Enable teams to operate with more clarity and less reliance on escalation


What Success Looks Like
  • Leaders are focused on decisions-not chasing logistics
  • Hiring and onboarding happen smoothly, even at scale
  • New sites and teams are stood up without disruption
  • Key initiatives stay on track with clear visibility and ownership
  • The organization runs with less friction, fewer surprises, and stronger coordination


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Strong organizational and coordination skills across multiple priorities
  • Ability to anticipate needs and act proactively
  • Clear, concise written and verbal communication
  • Comfort working with senior leaders and across functions
  • Strong follow-through and attention to detail
  • Experience supporting leaders, teams, or operational initiatives
  • Experience coordinating complex work across multiple stakeholders
  • Experience in fast-paced or high-growth environments


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience in program coordination, operations, or project environments
  • Experience supporting engineering, technical, or R&D teams
  • Experience supporting hiring or onboarding at scale


For this role, we anticipate paying $120,000 - $160,000 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.

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 .

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.

About Koch Industries

Koch Industries, Inc. is an American privately-held multinational conglomerate corporation based in Wichita, Kansas. Its subsidiaries are involved in the manufacturing, refining, and distribution of petroleum, chemicals, energy, fiber, intermediates and polymers, minerals, fertilizers, pulp and paper, chemical technology equipment, ranching, finance, commodities trading, and investing. Koch owns Infor, Invista, Georgia-Pacific, Molex, Flint Hills Resources, Koch Pipeline, Koch Fertilizer, Koch Minerals, Matador Cattle Company, i360, and Guardian Industries. The firm employs 120,000 people in 60 countries, with about half of its business in the United States. The company is the largest non-Canadian landowner in the Athabasca oil sands. With annual revenues of $110 billion by 2014, the company is the largest privately held company in the United States. In 2007, it was ranked as the largest privately held company. If Koch Industries had been a public company in 2013, it would have ranked 17th in the Fortune 500. The company was founded by its namesake, Fred C. Koch, in 1940 after he developed an innovative crude oil refining process. Fred C. Koch died in 1967 and his majority interest in the company was split amongst his four sons. In June 1983, after a bitter legal and boardroom battle, the stakes of Frederick R. Koch and William "Bill" Koch were bought out for $1.1 billion and Charles Koch and David Koch became majority owners in the company. Charles owns 42% of the company; trusts for the benefit of Elaine Tettemer Marshall and Elaine's children, Preston Marshall and E. Pierce Marshall Jr., own 16% of the company. The heirs of David Koch, who died on August 23, 2019, own the balance, 42%, of the corporation.
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