Sales Manager- Data Center

Sales Manager- Data Center

Location(s) Fremont, California

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Molex is growing in the Optical Solutions Business Unit and is looking for a growth-minded person to join our team as a Sales Manager. If you are looking for a way to accelerate your career and be part of a great company, this may be the opportunity for you. Our Optical Solutions business and Global Sales and Marketing team is looking for a Sales Manager of Data Centers to join our team. This person will report directly to our Sr. Director of Sales and have responsibility of managing large, key customers in the telecommunications and hyperscale data center industry. This person will be the main point of contact for the Account Management that includes: high touch customer engagement and customer satisfaction, revenue growth, pipeline creation and execution, and sales and operating support to sell optical connectivity products to hyperscale data center customers.

What You Will Do

• Grow the assigned customer revenue to support the overall corporate global sales target.
• Manage the overall customer satisfaction and cultivate relationships across all levels of assigned accounts.
• Create new opportunity pipelines for existing and new products for future growth.
• Execute and close on current pipeline opportunities and turn them into revenue.
• Gather internal consensus from the necessary stakeholders to professionally respond to customer requests, RFQ's and price negotiations.
• Understand the competitive landscape; gather business intelligence and report findings.
• Define key opportunities and prioritize customer engagement, projects or targets.
• Provide and maintain reliable forecasts to support operational success.
• Provide and maintain accurate reporting.
• Be the one point of contact for the customer to resolve to completion their requests or issues directly, or indirectly through the coordination with internal teams, to improve the overall customer experience.
• Partner closely with internal optical teams including engineering, business development, product management and marketing.
• Develop and maintain a customer account plan that aligns with customer and internal goals taking into considering the competitive landscape.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Business, or related field
• Proven experience in Account Management, Sales, Marketing, Business Development or Product Management
• Experience serving customers in telecommunications or data communications industry
• Experience working within fiber optic components, modules, optical systems, and silicon products

Key Skills:

• Skilled communicator in all mediums
• Negotiating
• Teamwork
• Project management
• Relationship development and management

What Will Put You Ahead

• MBA or Advanced degree in Electrical Engineer, Physics, Optical Engineering, Photonics or related technical discipline

For this role, we anticipate paying $150,000- $200,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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