Chief Information Officer

Molex is looking for a Chief Information Officer! The Chief Information Officer is a key member of Molex's Digital Leadership Team (DLT) responsible for understanding business strategies and applying disruptive and other technologies to advance those strategies. This role is based at our corporate headquarters in Lisle, IL.

Role Purpose

• Leads technology infrastructures, applications, tools and platforms that drive business effectiveness, optimize company assets and continuously evolve the Koch and Molex visions.

• Develops and drives a clear technology vision that supports and accelerates our business strategy and goals.

• Runs, maintains and operates the core operational systems that transact the everyday execution of the global busine

• Focuses on driving business strategy through transformational technology.

• Partners collaboratively with digital peers, leaders and functional teams to identify, develop and deploy key cross-company initiatives to increase value and streamline delivery times of products to external customers.

• Facilitates cross- functional discussions that maximize the effectiveness of modern technology solutions, increase self-serve options, steward governance and frameworks around the tools to keep them optimized, resilient, and safe.

• Develops new ideas, new ways of working, partnering and advising with a sense of constant evolution and enhanced capabilities.

• Proactively discovers, experiments, and understands emerging technology and industry trends that help guide and influence our digital footprint and strategic opportunities.

• Successfully leading a large, global matrix organization in either a digitally native or legacy/digital manufacturing business.

• Increasing responsibility and deeper financial acumen and influence -- strategic leader/thinker to help drive a vision around disruption/transformation through the filter of strategy.

• Enterprise/large transformational program and project management with increasing responsibilities over time to include and build deeper financial acumen, problem solving and influencing skills.

• Financial aptitude to commercialize and optimize a P & L; tell the story to build commitment for the investment.

• Executive communication skills relative to the language of business including financial, talent development, delivery and execution including working through implementation issues.

• Leads large-scale enterprise change with direct and indirect resources from initial planning through implementation, innovation and iteration phases.

• Builds high performing, cross functional teams and connects them to the vision, to early adoption and to drive transformative change, including ways of working.

• Identifies future talent needs and develops plan to develop or acquire the talent and capabilities

• Works with a variety of key stakeholders in different digital and functional groups including finance, manufacturing, product, sales, support, customers, etc.

• Understands and implements the digital operating model; operates from a digital mindset to optimize every aspect of the operating model to maximize the value to customers and the company. Is constantly bringing people along, increasing capabilities, innovating new ideas and driving process improvements.

• Develops a culture of innovation where disruptive and incremental ideas are generated and prioritized with a bias for action to drive continuous transformation.

• Decision Quality: Makes good decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgement; is often sought out by others for advice and solutions. Makes difficult talent decisions for the benefit of the team and the company.

• Organizational Agility: Deep knowledge of products, markets, capabilities, technology, culture, Principle Based Management, internal company navigation of work through formal and informal channels and an understanding of Koch and Molex structures and systems.

• Executive Communication: Delivers clear, concise, and transparent information with logical, inspiration, and sensitivity to cultural differences. Develops strong relationships and can influence within the organization; has an executive presence and communicates effectively with diverse audiences.

• Leadership development of the leaders/supervisors in his/her organization.

• Critical Thinking: Explores solutions, successfully solves problems, makes good decisions, and identifies risks and opportunities.

• Lead across boundaries to bring together diverse individuals and talents to foster knowledge sharing, develop thought leadership, and strengthen our network of technical talent.

• Critical & Agile Foresight: Provide thought leadership and a clear point-of-view of the future through broad knowledge of business and data; articulates credible pictures, strategies, visions, and plans that are competitive. future oriented and able to improve performance.

• Embraces Ambiguity: Effectively copes with change, is agile and can shift as needed while comfortably balancing risk and uncertainty. Ability to recognize quickly than an adjustment is needed. Comfort with experimentation and failure.

• Build and share broadly a macro view of the technology landscape. This includes headwinds/tailwinds, market trends, adjacent industries and technologies, etc.

• Eliminate and remove obstacles to advance experimentation, deployment, and adoption of new technologies.