Supply Chain-Assistant Manager, QPM

Manager-QPM

Your Job

Assistant Manager – Pricing & Lead Time in the QPM team is responsible for leading Molex's global commercial excellence initiatives in supplier pricing governance and lead time governance. The role ensures effective pricing discipline, lead time compliance, and high-quality SAP master data (PIR) to support business continuity and operational excellence. Working with a global scope from Bangalore, partners closely with Procurement, Global and Regional Category Teams, IT, and Business Stakeholders to drive transformation through automation, analytics, and process standardization across the end-to-end process. The role is accountable for delivering sustainable business value by strengthening cross functional collaboration, improving data governance, enabling informed decision-making, and delivering sustainable value.

Our Team

This role is part of the Global Procurement organization within Molex, operating as a core element of the Global Supply Chain Center of Excellence (CoE). The QPM team works at the intersection of sourcing, NPD, cost engineering, analytics, and digital platforms to support Molex’s global businesses with scalable, data-driven quotation and pricing capabilities.

What You Will Do

• Build and lead a global Pricing & Leadtime Management team that delivers consistent, Accurate pricing and lead-time outcomes across regions and material groups.
• Foster a Performance-Based Management (PBM) culture, developing accountable teams where leaders act as coaches and mentors with a strong contribution mindset.
• Establish and govern global pricing and lead-time disciplines.
• Partner cross-functionally to deliver analytics and negotiation support.
• Lead and ensure completeness & accurate maintenance and updates of Purchasing Info Records (PIRs), lead times, and pricing within SAP systems following supplier negotiations.
• Collaborate closely with Stakeholders to gather business requirements and translate them into actionable analytics and insights for strategic decision-making.
• Establish Business dashboards, reports, and analytical models to drive procurement performance and optimization.
• Drive initiatives enabling enterprise-wide data frameworks.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related discipline.
• Extensive experience (8-12 years) leading global Procurement, quotation or pricing functions.
• Proven ability to build and retain high-performing teams.
• Strong expertise in pricing & Lead-time governance.
• Demonstrated cross-functional leadership.
• SAP and Business Analytical Knowledge.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Master’s degree in engineering, Supply Chain, Finance, or related discipline.
• Experience in similar Procurement pricing in a global manufacturing company.
• Experience owning digital quotation or pricing platforms.
• Understanding of Principle-Based Management (PBM).
• Strong communication, analytical, and presentation skills, both verbal & written.
• Self-Motivated and able to work autonomously.
• Ability to lead and manage a team in a matrixed organization.

Additional Information:

• 
  Lead Pricing & Lead Time Governance functions.
• Responsible for driving process standardization, optimization, and automation initiatives.

Key Requirements

• 8-12 years of experience in Procurement, Pricing, Quotation, or Supply Chain functions.
• Strong experience in Pricing Management and Master Data Management.
• Exposure to supplier costing, contract pricing, and external supplier pricing management.
• Good to have: Power BI, SAP, Power Automate, Business Analytics.

Leadership Expectations

• Manage a team of 9 direct reports (including 1 Team Lead).
• Strong people leadership, team development, coaching, and performance management experience.
• Ability to scale capabilities and build future team leaders.

Stakeholder Management

• Work closely with 30-40 stakeholders across:
  • Procurement Teams
  • Regional Category Managers
  • Global Category Managers
  • Supply Chain Finance
  • IT & Business Support Teams
• Convert stakeholder, market, and digital insights into actionable improvements.

Key Focus Areas

• Enable and support pricing strategy execution.
• Identify opportunities for pricing automation and optimization.
• Standardize evolving pricing processes within defined timelines.
• Drive initiatives aligned to RREs, business priorities, and roadmap.

At Koch Companies

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.

Who We Are

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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.

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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