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The Director of Program & Portfolio Management (PPM) is responsible for establishing and leading a disciplined, enterprise-wide approach to portfolio management across Digital and IT. This role creates the structure, visibility, and operating rhythm needed to connect business strategy, investment decisions, capacity, and execution across enterprise and divisional priorities. This leader will oversee the portfolio management process for the organization, while program and project management resources remain embedded within decentralized teams. Success in the role will depend on the ability to influence across a matrixed environment, drive consistency through common practices and governance, and strengthen execution through partnership, transparency, and leadership without direct authority over all delivery resources.
This is an onsite opportunity in Lisle, IL; 5 days/per week.
Our Team
The role sits at the intersection of strategy, finance, and delivery, partnering closely with IT leadership, Digital Business Partners, and divisional stakeholders to translate demand into an executable, value-focused portfolio. This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to shape how Digital work is prioritized, governed, and delivered across the enterprise.
What You Will Do
- Own the enterprise-wide view of the Digital and IT portfolio across business, functional, and divisional initiatives
- Maintain a transparent view of demand, priorities, funding, capacity, interdependencies, and delivery status
- Ensure alignment between strategic priorities, financial plans, and execution capacity
- Provide CIO and senior leadership with the insights needed to make effective trade-off and investment decisions
- Establish and lead a scalable portfolio management process that brings consistency across a decentralized delivery model
- Define common expectations, governance practices, reporting standards, and portfolio review cadences without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Lead recurring portfolio and program reviews with Digital and business leadership to drive focus, transparency, and accountability
- Surface risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies early and drive resolution through leadership partnership
- Build and run a consistent intake and prioritization process for Digital and IT work across the enterprise
- Facilitate structured conversations with business leaders, Digital Leadership Team members, and key stakeholders to evaluate demand, sequence work, and clarify trade-offs
- Ensure initiatives enter the portfolio with clear sponsorship, business rationale, funding, scope, and outcome definitions
- Improve the quality and comparability of decisions on what work to start, stop, accelerate, or defer
- Provide enterprise leadership to program and project management practices across decentralized teams
- Create common tools, playbooks, templates, and ways of working that improve consistency, visibility, and execution quality
- Influence and coach program and project leaders across the organization to strengthen delivery discipline and portfolio transparency
- Reinforce clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations across teams participating in program execution
- Shift portfolio management from activity tracking to business outcomes and value realization
- Partner with business and Digital leaders to define success measures and monitor benefits realization following implementation
- Provide leadership with clear visibility into value delivered relative to investment, progress against objectives, and lessons learned
- Promote stronger linkage between portfolio decisions and enterprise value creation
- Partner with the Digital Leadership Team to improve visibility to resource capacity, delivery constraints, and demand across the portfolio
- Support annual planning and in-year decision making through realistic capacity, prioritization, and scenario modeling
- Enable fact-based resource discussions that improve focus on the highest-value work
- Identify systemic bottlenecks and recommend actions to improve organizational throughput and execution effectiveness
- Work closely with Digital Business Partners, capability leaders, divisional stakeholders, and finance partners to ensure business priorities are accurately reflected in the portfolio
- Strengthen collaboration between Digital, divisions and capabilities through clear communication, transparency, and predictable management rhythms
- Reinforce a common language for priorities, progress, risk, and value delivery across the enterprise
- Continuously evolve the PPM operating model based on organizational maturity, business needs, and leadership feedback
- Simplify governance where possible while increasing execution discipline and decision quality
- Identify opportunities to improve portfolio visibility, management reporting, and the overall effectiveness of Digital execution
- Help build a modern, practical PPM capability that enables scale without slowing the organization down
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field required
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in digital operations, program management, portfolio management, IT strategy, or transformation within a global enterprise
- Proven ability to lead enterprise programs and operating models that connect business priorities, technology delivery, and financial outcomes
- Demonstrated success working across complex, matrixed organizations and influencing outcomes without direct authority
- Enterprise-first mindset with the ability to balance strategic priorities, operational realities, and business outcomes
- Strong execution discipline paired with sound judgment and a bias for simplicity
- Skilled at leading through influence, building alignment, and driving clarity in a matrixed environment
- Able to create structure, transparency, and accountability without over-engineering process
What Will Put You Ahead
- MBA or advanced degree preferred in Leadership Attributes
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in digital operations, program management, portfolio management, IT strategy, or transformation within a global enterprise; manufacturing or engineering experience preferred
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior leaders across business and Digital functions
- Strong strategic thinking, business judgment, and analytical capability
- Deep alignment with Koch's Principle Based Management® philosophy and Molex values
- Naturally curious, pragmatic, and continuous improvement oriented
For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $225,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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.
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.
Who We Are
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.
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.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
Your Job
The Director of Program & Portfolio Management (PPM) is responsible for establishing and leading a disciplined, enterprise-wide approach to portfolio management across Digital and IT. This role creates the structure, visibility, and operating rhythm needed to connect business strategy, investment decisions, capacity, and execution across enterprise and divisional priorities. This leader will oversee the portfolio management process for the organization, while program and project management resources remain embedded within decentralized teams. Success in the role will depend on the ability to influence across a matrixed environment, drive consistency through common practices and governance, and strengthen execution through partnership, transparency, and leadership without direct authority over all delivery resources.
This is an onsite opportunity in Lisle, IL; 5 days/per week.
Our Team
The role sits at the intersection of strategy, finance, and delivery, partnering closely with IT leadership, Digital Business Partners, and divisional stakeholders to translate demand into an executable, value-focused portfolio. This is a highly visible leadership role with the opportunity to shape how Digital work is prioritized, governed, and delivered across the enterprise.
What You Will Do
- Own the enterprise-wide view of the Digital and IT portfolio across business, functional, and divisional initiatives
- Maintain a transparent view of demand, priorities, funding, capacity, interdependencies, and delivery status
- Ensure alignment between strategic priorities, financial plans, and execution capacity
- Provide CIO and senior leadership with the insights needed to make effective trade-off and investment decisions
- Establish and lead a scalable portfolio management process that brings consistency across a decentralized delivery model
- Define common expectations, governance practices, reporting standards, and portfolio review cadences without creating unnecessary bureaucracy
- Lead recurring portfolio and program reviews with Digital and business leadership to drive focus, transparency, and accountability
- Surface risks, resource constraints, and cross-functional dependencies early and drive resolution through leadership partnership
- Build and run a consistent intake and prioritization process for Digital and IT work across the enterprise
- Facilitate structured conversations with business leaders, Digital Leadership Team members, and key stakeholders to evaluate demand, sequence work, and clarify trade-offs
- Ensure initiatives enter the portfolio with clear sponsorship, business rationale, funding, scope, and outcome definitions
- Improve the quality and comparability of decisions on what work to start, stop, accelerate, or defer
- Provide enterprise leadership to program and project management practices across decentralized teams
- Create common tools, playbooks, templates, and ways of working that improve consistency, visibility, and execution quality
- Influence and coach program and project leaders across the organization to strengthen delivery discipline and portfolio transparency
- Reinforce clear roles, responsibilities, and expectations across teams participating in program execution
- Shift portfolio management from activity tracking to business outcomes and value realization
- Partner with business and Digital leaders to define success measures and monitor benefits realization following implementation
- Provide leadership with clear visibility into value delivered relative to investment, progress against objectives, and lessons learned
- Promote stronger linkage between portfolio decisions and enterprise value creation
- Partner with the Digital Leadership Team to improve visibility to resource capacity, delivery constraints, and demand across the portfolio
- Support annual planning and in-year decision making through realistic capacity, prioritization, and scenario modeling
- Enable fact-based resource discussions that improve focus on the highest-value work
- Identify systemic bottlenecks and recommend actions to improve organizational throughput and execution effectiveness
- Work closely with Digital Business Partners, capability leaders, divisional stakeholders, and finance partners to ensure business priorities are accurately reflected in the portfolio
- Strengthen collaboration between Digital, divisions and capabilities through clear communication, transparency, and predictable management rhythms
- Reinforce a common language for priorities, progress, risk, and value delivery across the enterprise
- Continuously evolve the PPM operating model based on organizational maturity, business needs, and leadership feedback
- Simplify governance where possible while increasing execution discipline and decision quality
- Identify opportunities to improve portfolio visibility, management reporting, and the overall effectiveness of Digital execution
- Help build a modern, practical PPM capability that enables scale without slowing the organization down
Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Information Systems, or a related field required
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in digital operations, program management, portfolio management, IT strategy, or transformation within a global enterprise
- Proven ability to lead enterprise programs and operating models that connect business priorities, technology delivery, and financial outcomes
- Demonstrated success working across complex, matrixed organizations and influencing outcomes without direct authority
- Enterprise-first mindset with the ability to balance strategic priorities, operational realities, and business outcomes
- Strong execution discipline paired with sound judgment and a bias for simplicity
- Skilled at leading through influence, building alignment, and driving clarity in a matrixed environment
- Able to create structure, transparency, and accountability without over-engineering process
What Will Put You Ahead
- MBA or advanced degree preferred in Leadership Attributes
- 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in digital operations, program management, portfolio management, IT strategy, or transformation within a global enterprise; manufacturing or engineering experience preferred
- Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with the ability to engage credibly with senior leaders across business and Digital functions
- Strong strategic thinking, business judgment, and analytical capability
- Deep alignment with Koch's Principle Based Management® philosophy and Molex values
- Naturally curious, pragmatic, and continuous improvement oriented
For this role, we anticipate paying $200,000 - $225,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.
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.
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.
Who We Are
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.
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.
Equal Opportunities
Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information. (For Illinois E-Verify information click here, aquí, or tu).
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Translate your credentials into U.S. equivalency
Molex evaluates Project Director candidates against U.S. degree standards. If your engineering or supply chain degree is from outside the U.S., get a credential evaluation from NACES-member organization before applying so hiring managers can assess your background without uncertainty.
Target Molex roles tied to product launches
Project Director openings at Molex frequently align with new connector product lines or manufacturing facility expansions. Focusing your applications on roles with active production ramp-up signals stronger sponsorship urgency, which shortens internal approval timelines for initiating an H-1B petition.
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Filtering for Molex Project Director positions with confirmed sponsorship history saves significant research time. Migrate Mate lets you browse these roles directly, so you can focus outreach on openings where visa support is already part of the hiring process.
Align your experience with USCIS specialty occupation standards
H-1B approval for Project Director roles requires demonstrating the position qualifies as a specialty occupation. Frame your resume around the technical depth of the role, specifically systems integration, cross-supplier coordination, or materials engineering, rather than general management responsibilities.
Understand how PERM affects your long-term sponsorship path
Molex sponsors EB-2 and EB-3 Green Cards for senior roles, which means PERM labor certification. The DOL recruitment process for PERM takes several months before USCIS filing begins, so ask about the company's sponsorship policy timeline when you receive an offer.
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Does Molex sponsor H-1B visas for Project Directors?
Yes, Molex sponsors H-1B visas for Project Director roles. The process starts with your employer filing a Labor Condition Application with the DOL, followed by an H-1B petition with USCIS. Because H-1B cap-subject petitions are subject to an annual lottery, timing your offer and petition filing relative to the April registration window is critical for planning your start date.
How do I apply for Project Director jobs at Molex?
Applications go through Molex's careers portal, where Project Director openings are listed by region and business unit. To find roles where sponsorship is confirmed upfront, browse Molex listings on Migrate Mate, which filters specifically for positions where visa sponsorship is part of the hiring process, saving you the step of asking each recruiter individually.
Which visa types does Molex commonly use for Project Director roles?
Molex sponsors H-1B visas for most Project Director hires requiring long-term work authorization. For Canadian and Mexican nationals, TN status is a faster alternative. F-1 OPT and CPT are used for candidates transitioning from academic programs, while EB-2 and EB-3 Green Card sponsorship is available for qualifying senior roles through the PERM labor certification process.
What qualifications does Molex expect for Project Director candidates?
Molex typically looks for a bachelor's degree in engineering, supply chain management, or a related technical field, along with substantial experience leading cross-functional projects in a manufacturing or components environment. Familiarity with global supplier networks, product lifecycle management, and the ability to coordinate across engineering, procurement, and operations teams is expected at the director level.
How do I time my application around the H-1B lottery if I'm already in the U.S.?
If you're on F-1 OPT or another status, you need an offer in hand before your employer can register you for the H-1B lottery, which USCIS runs each March for an October 1 start date. Securing an offer by late February gives your employer enough time to complete the DOL LCA step before the registration window opens. Planning for at least a 7-month runway from offer to start date is realistic.
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