Molex
Sales Engineer - UK & Ireland
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Are you a motivated, customer-focused Sales Engineer with the ability to influence technical designs and drive commercial growth? As a Sales Engineer, you will execute a targeted growth strategy across Northern UK & Ireland by partnering with customers' engineering, design, and procurement teams to identify application requirements and secure design-in opportunities for Molex solutions. Combining technical expertise with strong relationship-building skills, you will develop strategic customer partnerships, uncover new market opportunities, and convert design wins into long-term revenue growth.
Apply now and help shape the future of connectivity across the fast-moving Datacom, Automotive, Industrial & Aerospace & Defence markets.
Our Team
Join a collaborative, inclusive team at Molex where diverse perspectives are embraced and where your ideas can make a difference. A supportive culture empowers you to take the initiative and grow, offering clear opportunities for career advancement within our global organization.
What You Will Do
- Grow Strategic Customer Relationships: Build trusted relationships with key customers through proactive engagement, driving long-term growth and customer value.
- Drive New Business Opportunities: Identify, qualify and develop new opportunities within existing and prospective accounts, taking an entrepreneurial approach to growth.
- Maximise Channel & Distribution Partnerships: Collaborate with distribution partners to expand market reach, develop target accounts and accelerate revenue growth.
- Deliver Value-Based Solutions: Apply a consultative sales approach to understand customer needs and align Molex solutions with their business objectives.
- Execute Strategic Growth Plans: Develop and implement account plans that drive pipeline development, opportunity conversion, profitability and market share growth.
- Align Customer & Market Needs: Understand customer priorities, industry trends and future requirements to uncover new growth opportunities.
- Collaborate Across the Business: Work with product management, engineering, marketing and operations teams to deliver successful customer outcomes.
- Leverage Market Intelligence: Monitor market developments and competitor activity to inform strategy and strengthen Molex's competitive position.
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Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Technical sales professional with 5 years’ experience and a proven record of growth, technical design-in demand creation and new business development.
- Skilled at building trusted customer and partner relationships that deliver long-term value.
- Consultative in your approach, you’re able to understand customer needs and through design-in, illustrate technical solutions to the customers business objectives.
- Commercially minded, with strong account planning, pipeline management and opportunity conversion skills.
- Effective communicator, negotiator and influencer across all levels of an organisation.
- Experience working directly with customers and through distribution or channel partners.
- Self-motivated, collaborative and accountable for achieving ambitious business goals.
- Degree qualified in Engineering or equivalent industry experience.
What Will Put You Ahead
- Been in a technical design-in role, ideally with experience of the connector industry or electronic components.
- Experience selling technical products within Aerospace & Defense, Datacenter, Industrial & Automotive sectors.
- Experience and interaction with Molex’s Distribution network partners.
- Ideally located within region – North of UK.
- Experience using SAP and Salesforce systems.
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Who We Are
As a Koch company, Molex is a leading supplier of connectors and interconnect components, driving innovation in electronics and supporting industries from automotive to health care and consumer to data communications. The thousands of innovators who work for Molex have made us a global electronics leader. Our experienced people, groundbreaking products and leading-edge technologies help us deliver a wider array of solutions to more markets than ever before.
At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.
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