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Business Process Strategy Partner

Molex
life insurance, parental leave
United States, Illinois, Lisle
2222 Wellington Court (Show on map)
Jan 09, 2026
Your Job Molex is seeking someone passionate about transforming how our Product Development teams bring products to life. As a Business Process Strategy Partner for Product Development at Molex, you'll play a pivotal role in redefining the core business processes that power our global product lifecycle. Working side-by-side with key stakeholders, you'll turn strategy into action by designing and harmonizing capabilities-driven processes that unlock measurable value across the organization. This is a unique opportunity for a forward-thinking problem solver with a transformation mindset to influence enterprise-level change, strengthen cross-functional collaboration, and help build an adaptable, future-ready product life-cycle framework. Our Team The ideal candidate will play a key role in business transformation initiatives by mapping business processes to strategic objectives and enterprise capabilities. To be successful, the candidate must demonstrate a strong agility mindset, embracing changing business priorities as the Molex Product Development environment evolves. What You Will Do The Business Process Strategy Partner is responsible for supporting the transformation of the Molex Product Development business processes. Acting as a collaborative partner to internal stakeholders, this position works closely with business units, enterprise architects, and technology teams to co-create and optimize business processes. The responsibilities include understanding what creates value within the various Molex business units and utilizing that knowledge to design, optimize, and govern enterprise-wide business processes aligned with a capabilities-centric business architecture. The objective is to develop processes that are strategically aligned, highly adaptable, effectively integrated, efficient, and transparently governed across all capabilities and cross-functional groups. Business Process & Capability Mapping Define and document business processes and their relationships to organizational strategic objectives (capabilities). Develop business process heatmaps to assess maturity, gaps, and opportunities. Align business processes across all Product Development Capability models and ensure consistency with cross-functional organizations business processes. Lead business process transformation and improve operational effectiveness. Conduct interviews across all levels of capabilities to document inefficient processes. Facilitate workshops and collaborative sessions with stakeholders to identify process gaps and co-develop optimized workflows. Process Optimization & Standardization Develop a highly effective visual, hierarchical model of the organization's processes, serving as the single source of truth for Product Development operations, and as a blueprint for decision-making and strategy execution. Conduct business process modeling using BPMN (Business Process Model and Notation) to document and refine workflows. Lead process re-engineering efforts to improve efficiency, reduce redundancy, and inform initiatives to apply automation enabling technologies Identify and implement process governance frameworks to ensure alignment with best practices. Enterprise Architecture & Technology Alignment Work with Enterprise Architects to ensure business processes are aligned with business capability requirements to more effectively enable through technology implementations. Utilize the Sparx/Prolaborate Enterprise Architect (EA) tools to maintain a central repository of business processes and capabilities. Support workflow automation implementations across all Digital Systems by defining capability-driven business process requirements to more effectively enable technology implementations. Change Management & Stakeholder Collaboration Act as a bridge builder between People (Business Stakeholders) and Technology (Global PD Portfolio & Digital Technology Enablement) by defining business Processes that map out robust & simple workflows to drive technological decisions. Serve as a strategic partner to PD Capability Owners and cross-functional teams, facilitating alignment and shared ownership of process improvements and transformation initiatives. Support change management efforts by creating training materials, business process documentation, and adoption strategies. Performance Monitoring & Continuous Improvement Define KPIs and success metrics for business processes and capabilities. Conduct process audits and identify areas for automation or efficiency improvements. Stay updated on industry trends and best practices in capability-based architecture, business process management (BPM), and digital transformation. Who You Are (Basic Qualifications) 5+ years of experience with Process Optimization & Re-engineering: Ability to analyze existing business processes, identify inefficiencies and redundancies, and lead re-engineering initiatives to improve operational effectiveness and support automation. Stakeholder Facilitation & Collaboration: Expertise in leading workshops and collaborative sessions with cross-functional stakeholders to identify process gaps and co-create optimized workflows. Business Process Modeling (BPMN): Proficiency in using BPMN to document, visualize, and refine workflows for clear process communication and standardization across the organization. Business Process Heatmap Development: Experience creating heatmaps to assess process maturity, identify gaps, and highlight opportunities for optimization. What Will Put You Ahead Performance Monitoring & KPI Definition: Ability to define key performance indicators (KPIs) and success metrics for processes and capabilities, conduct audits, and drive continuous improvements. Business Capability Mapping: Skill in defining and documenting the relationships between business processes and organizational capabilities, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives and a capability-centric business architecture. Process Governance Frameworks: Knowledge of establishing and applying governance frameworks that ensure consistent management, compliance, and continuous improvement of business processes. Cross-Functional Collaboration: Strong experience working closely with diverse business units, enterprise architects, and technology teams to ensure process alignment and integration across the product development lifecycle. Change Management Support: Capability to create training materials, documentation, and adoption strategies that support organizational change and transformation initiatives. Enterprise Architecture Tools (Sparx/Prolaborate EA): Experience with Sparx/Prolaborate EA tools to maintain a centralized repository of business processes and capabilities, enabling effective process governance and alignment. Visual Hierarchical Process Modeling: Ability to develop and maintain a highly effective, visual, hierarchical model of the organization's processes serving as the single source of truth for operations and strategy execution. Gap Analysis & Opportunity Identification: Strong analytical skills to perform gap analysis and produce reports that pinpoint inefficiencies and process improvement opportunities. Workflow Automation Support: Understanding how to translate capability-driven business requirements into process designs that enable workflow automation across digital systems. For this role, we anticipate paying $115,000 - $150,000 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, aqui, or tu). #LI-MS6