Koch Industries

Program Manager

Koch Industries$150K — $180K *
Lisle, IL 60532In-Person
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs or product development initiatives
  • Experience managing programs within engineering, manufacturing, or product development environments
  • Experience influencing and coordinating work across engineering, operations, and commercial teams
  • Strong organization and communication skills
  • Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate risks and navigate ambiguity

Responsibilities

  • Convert customer strategic priorities into clear program plans and milestones
  • Define scope and expected outcomes in collaboration with engineering and commercial teams
  • Align stakeholders on program priorities and desired results
  • Coordinate execution across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain teams
  • Monitor program health and escalate issues when needed
  • Facilitate collaboration among internal teams and external stakeholders
  • Provide structured program updates and insights to enable informed decision-making

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts
  • Life insurance, ADD, and disability coverage
  • Retirement plans
  • Paid vacation and time off
  • Educational assistance
  • Childcare support including paid parental leave and adoption assistance
Full Job Description
Your Job

Molex is seeking a Program Manager to translate customer demand and strategic priorities into executable programs across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain. This role ensures complex customer programs move forward with clarity, alignment, and disciplined execution. The Program Manager anticipates risks, surfaces constraints early, and helps teams make informed trade-offs as programs evolve.

Success in this role requires strong systems thinking, the ability to influence across functions, and the judgment to navigate ambiguity while protecting customer commitments. This role operates at the center of cross-functional collaboration, connecting commercial teams, engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure programs deliver predictable results as the business scales.

Location: This is an onsite role based at our headquarters in Lisle, IL.

What You Will Do
  • Convert customer strategic priorities into clear program plans, milestones, and deliverables
  • Define scope, program objectives, and expected outcomes in collaboration with engineering, operations, and commercial teams
  • Align stakeholders on program priorities and desired end state
  • Coordinate execution across engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, and commercial teams
  • Ensure clear ownership of workstreams, deliverables, and dependencies
  • Facilitate collaboration across internal teams and external customer stakeholders
  • Identify program risks, resource gaps, and execution constraints before they impact delivery
  • Monitor program health and proactively escalate issues when trade-offs or leadership decisions are required
  • Ensure teams have visibility into program status, dependencies, and capacity challenges
  • Maintain clear visibility into program milestones, scope changes, and delivery expectations
  • Ensure stakeholders have accurate, timely insight into progress, risks, and program health
  • Enable teams to make informed decisions by providing structured program updates and insights
  • Facilitate discussions that clarify priorities and trade-offs across teams
  • Drive resolution when competing priorities, scope changes, or resource conflicts arise
  • Ensure decisions are communicated clearly and execution remains aligned


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
  • 7+ years of experience leading complex cross-functional programs or product development initiatives
  • Experience managing programs within engineering, manufacturing, or product development environments
  • Experience influencing and coordinating work across engineering, operations, and commercial teams
  • Strong organization and communication skills
  • Experience managing multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  • Experience working with global teams and complex stakeholder networks
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities
  • Demonstrated ability to anticipate risks and navigate ambiguity


What Will Put You Ahead
  • PMP Certified
  • MBA or Masters Degree in a related field
  • Experience working with Tier 1 and/or hyperscale customers
  • Experience managing direct reports
  • Change management experience
  • Previous experience in a sales, product development, or engineering role


For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000 - $180,000 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.

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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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