Koch Industries

Regional Distribution Sales Manager

Koch Industries$110K — $130K *
Consumer Technology
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 5-7 years of experience in sales, channel management, or technical roles in the electronics industry.
  • Proven ability to collaborate with customers and distributors for business success.
  • Experience in developing and executing sales and technical initiatives.
  • Willingness to travel within Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related field.

Responsibilities

  • Drive regional sales growth through strategic partnerships and demand creation activities.
  • Develop business plans that boost market share and customer adoption of Molex solutions.
  • Cultivate strong relationships with distributor teams to enhance collaboration and support.
  • Lead initiatives that enhance market penetration in targeted sectors.
  • Team up with distributor sales teams on account strategies and growth opportunities.
  • Influence distributor stakeholders to prioritize Molex products and uncover new applications.
  • Conduct business reviews and training to align on growth strategies and improve performance.

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage.
  • Flexible spending and health savings accounts available.
  • Life insurance, disability, and retirement plans offered.
  • Generous paid vacation and time off policies.
  • Educational assistance and support for infertility, parental leave, and adoption assistance.
Full Job Description
Regional Distribution Sales Manager

Location: Must be Texas-based, (TX, OK, LA, AR distribution territory).

Travel: Up to 40% regional travel, plus local customer and distributor visits.

Your Job

Molex is seeking a Regional Distribution Sales Manager (RDSM) to drive growth and strengthen strategic distribution partnerships in Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. In this role, you will serve as the primary liaison to distributor leadership, product managers, field application engineers (FAEs), sales teams, and branch organizations, developing and executing strategies that increase demand creation, market penetration, design wins, and revenue growth.

This is an individual contributor role with significant influence across the Molex organization. You will play a critical role in shaping channel strategy, expanding Molex's presence within key growth markets, and accelerating customer engagement across a broad portfolio of interconnect, passive, and electromechanical solutions. Success in this position requires a combination of commercial acumen, technical aptitude, and relationship-building expertise to create mutual value for customers, distribution partners, and Molex.

What You Will Do

  • Drive territory growth through strategic engagement with distribution partners and targeted demand creation activities.
  • Develop and execute business plans that increase market share, revenue growth, design activity, and customer adoption of Molex solutions.
  • Build and strengthen relationships with distributor teams throughout the channel.
  • Lead strategic initiatives with distribution partners that increase market penetration and strengthen Molex's position within targeted growth markets.
  • Partner with distributor sales teams on customer visits, opportunity development, account strategy, and growth initiatives.
  • Influence distributor stakeholders to prioritize Molex opportunities, uncover new applications, and increase customer engagement.
  • Partner with distributor & internal teams to identify design opportunities, increase design registrations, and drive demand creation activities.
  • Drive and track design-win activity, customer pipeline development, and opportunity conversion in collaboration with distributor and Molex resources.
  • Establish and maintain monthly and quarterly operating cadences with distribution partners, including pipeline reviews, demand creation discussions, design-win reviews, and growth planning.
  • Conduct quarterly business reviews to assess performance, identify opportunities, and align on future growth strategies.
  • Lead distributor training initiatives that increase product knowledge, solution positioning, and sales effectiveness.
  • Collaborate with sales, product management, marketing, sales operations, and business development teams to accelerate business growth.
  • Support distributor registration programs and promote transparency and alignment across channel initiatives.
  • Maintain a consistent presence across key distribution partners to increase awareness of Molex capabilities, strategic priorities, and market opportunities.
  • Support and contribute to the Molex and Koch Principle Based Management™ culture by following applicable quality, environmental, safety, and business processes.


Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

  • Experience in sales, channel management, business development, field application engineering, product management, or a related commercial or technical role within the electronics industry or a related technical market.
  • Experience collaborating with customers, distributors, or cross-functional stakeholders to support business objectives.
  • Experience developing, presenting, or executing business, sales, technical, or customer-focused initiatives.
  • Ability and willingness to travel within the assigned territory to support customer and distributor engagement.
  • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Business, Marketing, or a related field.


What Will Put You Ahead

  • Experience with interconnect, passive, electromechanical, or related electronic component technologies.
  • Experience working with electronics distribution partners to support demand creation, customer engagement, and business growth initiatives.
  • Experience designing with OEMs or supporting activities that resulted in customer design wins.
  • Experience developing and executing growth strategies that contributed to revenue growth, market share expansion, demand generation, or increased design activity.
  • Experience conducting business reviews and presenting business performance metrics to internal and external stakeholders.
  • Experience in product management, marketing, field application engineering, sales engineering, technical sales, or related commercial roles within the electronics industry.


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.

Work Authorization & Relocation

Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future employment visa sponsorship.

This position is not eligible for relocation assistance

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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