Event Marketing Manager

Your Job

Molex is looking for an Event Marketing Manager to oversee the strategy and execution of industry tradeshow and customer events , ensuring seamless coordination and impactful experiences. This role requires close collaboration across marketing, sales, business units, and external partners to align event efforts with strategic business goals. You will drive agile event project management, vendor relationships, and creative collateral development, while fostering a culture of data-driven problem-solving and continuous improvement. This position offers the opportunity to grow your leadership skills, contribute to high-profile global events, and make a meaningful impact on the company's brand presence and customer engagement!

Location : This is an onsite role based at our office in Lisle, IL.

What You Will Do

• Oversee the strategy and execution of industry tradeshow, customer events, and company-hosted events globally.
• Foster cross-functional collaboration by actively engaging with marketing, sales, business units, and external partners, leveraging diverse expertise to maximize event impact and create an event strategy that delivers a tangible return on investment.
• Lead team of internal and external team members to facilitate and prioritize efforts within matrixed and agile environments to effectively allocate bandwidth and deliverables aligned with strategic goals.
• Promote a culture of problem solving by encouraging open challenge, data-driven experimentation, and continuous improvement in event planning and execution.
• Enhance stakeholder communication by maintaining transparent, timely updates and facilitating inclusive dialogue across all event-related teams.
• Apply agile best practices to event project management, allowing for adaptability and rapid response to changing priorities or unforeseen challenges.
• Secure venues, plan layouts, and manage vendors to implement tradeshow and event presence.
• Work with vendors and marketing teams to drive the development and customization of specialized collateral, digital experiences, and fixture designs for the event.
• Propose and manage budgets along with negotiating tradeshow, hotel, technology, and event vendor contracts.
• Ensure effective brand representation beyond the exhibit hall through speaking opportunities, sponsorships, advertising, private meetings, and other event tactics.
• Champion critical thinking by questioning assumptions, encouraging diverse viewpoints, and applying economic reasoning to optimize trade show and event strategies.
• Promote events through marketing channels including social media, email and digital advertising campaigns.
• Attend tradeshows and customer events globally as appropriate to ensure smooth operation.
• Measure and report the success of tradeshow and event KPIs along with their longer-term business impacts to continually improve our return on investment.
• Oversee creation of communications deliverables related to events including presentations, emails, advertisements, social media posts, signage, flyers, etc.
• Write strong, clear and compelling copy while maintaining consistency of brand voice, style, punctuation, spelling and grammar.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

What Will Put You Ahead

For this role, we anticipate paying $100,000 - $120,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

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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

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.

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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, aqui, or tu).

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