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Working closely with customers’ engineering, design, procurement, and commercial teams, you will understand application requirements, recommend suitable Molex solutions, and secure design-in opportunities.\nYou will combine technical expertise, consultative selling, and relationship-building skills to convert design wins into long-term, profitable revenue growth. The role will support customers across strategic markets, focusing on Automotive and Transportation.\nJoin us and help expand Molex’s presence and customer value creation across Romania and Serbia.\n\nOur Team\nYou will join a collaborative and internationally connected Molex sales organization. The team works closely with customers, distribution partners, and internal product divisions to develop new opportunities and deliver differentiated technical solutions.\nYou will be encouraged to take ownership, contribute ideas, and develop your technical and commercial capabilities within our global organization.\n\nWhat You Will Do\nManage and grow assigned customer accounts: Take ownership of customer relationships, account development, pipeline growth, and revenue performance within the assigned territory and account portfolio.\nDevelop strategic customer relationships: Build trusted relationships with engineering, procurement, design, and commercial stakeholders within customer and partner organizations.\nCreate new business opportunities: Identify, qualify, and develop opportunities within existing and prospective accounts, with a strong focus on new applications, customer penetration, and market share growth.\nDrive technical design-in activity: Understand customer 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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.\n\nWho We Are\nAs 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. 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