Sales Engineer – Turkey

Your Job

Are you a customer-focused Sales Engineer with the technical expertise and commercial mindset to drive business growth?

As a Sales Engineer in Turkey, you will grow assigned customer accounts and identify new opportunities with existing and prospective customers. Working closely with engineering, design, procurement, and commercial stakeholders, you will understand application requirements, recommend Molex solutions, and secure design-in opportunities.

You will combine technical expertise with consultative selling to convert design wins into profitable revenue growth across key markets, including Industrial, Automotive & Transportation, Home Appliance, Aerospace & Defence, Datacom, and other emerging applications.

Join us and help expand Molex’s presence and create value for customers across Turkey.

Our Team

You 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.

You will be encouraged to take ownership, contribute ideas, and develop your technical and commercial capabilities within our global organization.

What You Will Do

• Manage and grow assigned customer accounts: Take ownership of customer relationships, account development, pipeline growth, and revenue performance within the assigned territory and account portfolio.
• Develop strategic customer relationships: Build trusted relationships with engineering, procurement, design, and commercial stakeholders within customer and partner organizations.
• Create 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.
• Drive technical design-in activity: Understand customer applications and technical requirements, propose appropriate Molex solutions, and coordinate the technical support required to secure design wins.
• Convert design wins into revenue: Manage opportunities throughout the complete sales cycle, working with customers and internal teams to support timely conversion from specification and design approval to production revenue.
• Develop and execute account plans: Create actionable customer and territory plans covering strategic priorities, opportunity pipelines, stakeholder relationships, competitive positioning, and growth objectives.
• Engage distribution partners: Collaborate with authorized distribution partners to develop target customers, identify new opportunities, and expand market coverage.
• Deliver value-based solutions: Apply a consultative sales approach to connect Molex’s technical capabilities with customers’ business, technical, application, and operational objectives.
• Coordinate cross-functional resources: Work closely with product management, engineering, marketing, customer service, operations, and other commercial teams to deliver effective customer solutions.
• Provide market intelligence: Monitor customer strategies, industry developments, emerging applications, and competitor activity to inform business priorities and growth plans.
• Maintain sales discipline: Maintain accurate and up-to-date customer, opportunity, and forecast information in the company’s CRM and other relevant business systems.
• Represent Molex in the market: Participate in customer visits, distributor activities, technical seminars, exhibitions, and other relevant industry events.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in a relevant engineering discipline, such as electrical, electronics, mechatronics, telecommunications, mechanical, or industrial engineering.
• Professional Experience: Relevant experience in technical sales, sales engineering, application engineering, business development, or customer-facing engineering.
• Technical Capability: Demonstrated ability to understand customer applications and translate technical requirements into commercially valuable solutions.
• Account Management Experience: Experience developing customer relationships and taking responsibility for account growth, opportunity development, and commercial outcomes.
• Sales Excellence: Strong capabilities in consultative selling, account planning, pipeline management, and opportunity conversion.
• Technical Communication: Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly to engineering, procurement, and commercial stakeholders.
• Influencing Skills: Strong communication, negotiation, and influencing skills.
• Working Style: Self-motivated, entrepreneurial, and accountable, with the ability to work independently while collaborating effectively in a matrix organization.
• Language Skills: Fluent Turkish and professional working proficiency in English.
• Travel Requirements: Willingness and ability to travel regularly within Turkey and occasionally internationally.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Industry Experience: Experience selling connectors, interconnect solutions, electronic components, or other engineered products.
• Market Knowledge: Established relationships or market knowledge within Industrial, Automotive, Home Appliance, Aerospace & Defence, Datacom, or related sectors in Turkey.
• Demand Creation Success: Demonstrated success in technical demand creation, customer penetration, and design-in conversion.
• Channel Partner Experience: Experience working with distributors or channel partners.
• Technical Product Knowledge: Knowledge of electronic and electromechanical applications, including connectors, cable assemblies, sensors, antennas, or related technologies.
• Systems Experience: Experience using Salesforce, SAP, or comparable CRM and ERP systems.
• Global Collaboration: Ability to engage confidently with both local customer organizations and international technical and commercial teams.

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

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.

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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