Koch Industries

OEM Account Manager- Industrial

Koch Industries$130K — $140K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Manufacturing & Automotive
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or relevant working experience
  • Valid driver's license
  • Willingness to travel within the US for target accounts
  • Prior experience in technical sales or related fields
  • Familiarity with engineering principles in harsh environments

Responsibilities

  • Develop strategic account plans for revenue growth and market share
  • Own customer relationships across all levels of OEM accounts
  • Lead customer engagement with a focus on value creation
  • Drive early design cycle engagement for specification alignment
  • Maintain accurate reporting on sales opportunities
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align on pricing and solutions
  • Conduct comprehensive account planning and assess performance against targets

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance and disability coverage
  • Retirement plan options
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance and resources
  • Family-focused support including paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Industrial OEM Account Manager Job Description

Title: Industrial OEM Account Manager

Role Overview

The OEM Account Manager is responsible for developing and executing strategic account plans to drive sustained revenue growth, demand creation, and market share expansion within assigned Industrial OEM accounts.

This role focuses on harsh environment applications across Molex's Industrial Automation Connectivity and Electrical & Power portfolios, with a primary objective of influencing specifications, creating demand, and delivering profitable growth.

The OEM Account Manager serves as the owner of the customer relationship and business outcome, positioning Molex as a trusted solutions partner through strong application knowledge, disciplined sales execution, and cross-functional collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

Account Ownership & Customer Engagement
  • Own and develop relationships across all levels of OEM accounts, including engineering, sourcing, operations, and executive leadership
  • Build deep understanding of customer:
    • Business drivers and growth strategies
    • Organizational structure and decision-making processes
    • Key applications, standards, and technical requirements
  • Lead all customer engagement activities with a focus on creating value, not just managing transactions
  • Partner with internal Contracts and Negotiations teams to ensure aligned and sustainable pricing strategies

Demand Creation & Specification Ownership
  • Drive early engagement in the design cycle to influence specifications and secure technical alignment
  • Develop customer-specific application knowledge to position Molex solutions effectively
  • Convert engagement into:
    • Specification wins
    • Design registrations
    • Long-term revenue streams

Sales Strategy & Account Planning
  • Maintain accurate and disciplined opportunity reporting to key internal stakeholders
  • Develop and execute a comprehensive account planning strategy for top accounts
  • Define growth strategies aligned to:
    • Industrial verticals served by the customer
    • Molex product portfolio priorities
  • Maintain a robust pipeline of qualified opportunities with clear next actions
  • Regularly assess performance vs. targets and adjust strategies accordingly
  • Internal Cross-Functional Collaboration (Product Management, Customer Service, Pricing and Contracts, Technical / Engineering resources, etc.)

Requirements:
  • Bachelor's degree or relevant working experience.
  • Valid driver's license.
  • Ability to travel throughout the US states as related to target accounts.
  • Prior experience in technical sales, industrial distribution, manufacturing operations, systems integration, or an engineering firm.

What Will Put You Ahead
  • Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering discipline
  • Prior sales experience or general working experience with harsh environments Industrial Automation applications, Warehouse Automation or Electrical & Safety equipment.

For this role, we anticipate paying $130,000- $140,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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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