[Hiring] General Manager, Life Safety & Distributed Power Infrastructure @Eaton Corporation

Role Description

Eaton's Electrical Sector is seeking a General Manager, Life Safety & Distributed Power Infrastructure (LSDPI). The business is central to how we protect people and property, support resilient power and digital infrastructure, and create value in highly regulated markets.

The opportunity:

• Lead and grow a sizeable, profitable portfolio with direct P&L responsibility.
• Work with product line strategy, marketing, engineering, and commercial leaders.
• Shape strategy across EMEA and globally, including operations in the United States and China.
• Combine direct leadership of Product Line Management, Marketing, Engineering, and Operations.
• Carry full accountability for business performance and portfolio direction.

What you’ll do:

• Translate strategy into profitable growth.
• Lead overall LSDPI strategy and execution, delivering profitable growth and market expansion across EMEA and global product lines.
• Build and execute long-term business plans aligned with divisional and regional priorities.
• Lead transformation and growth initiatives that strengthen competitive positioning.
• Define product strategy, roadmaps, and lifecycle plans.
• Identify market trends, customer needs, and competitive opportunities.
• Partner with regional sales leaders and country organisations to strengthen coverage in priority growth countries.
• Drive new product development, localisation, digitalisation, and innovation.
• Expand regulatory-led services and digital solutions.
• Accelerate single-phase UPS growth through channel and broader commercial reach.
• Leverage project synergies in Buildings and Data Centre segments.
• Provide strategic leadership to Engineering to support innovation and product development.
• Build and lead a high-performing, internationally distributed leadership team.
• Develop talent, succession, organisational capability, and leadership effectiveness.
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, innovation, and customer focus.
• Lead organisational transformation and change management where required.

Qualifications

• Broad general management experience with direct P&L accountability in a sizeable, complex, and international business.
• Experience working across multiple product lines, countries, or market channels in a large global organisation.
• Experience translating enterprise and regional priorities into end-to-end business, product-line, and commercial strategy.
• Strong commercial and product-line orientation, with evidence of converting strategy into accelerated profitable growth.
• Experience leading product management, marketing, engineering, and operations.
• Track record of portfolio transformation, new product introduction, digitalisation, and innovation in highly regulated markets.
• Success influencing senior commercial, engineering, operational, and functional leaders.
• Experience building and leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Requirements

• Direct experience in electrical, power management, lighting, fire, life safety, building technology, or another regulated engineered-product environment.
• Significant general management and leadership experience, including direct P&L responsibility at $XXXm scale.
• Experience leading managers and geographically distributed cross-functional teams.

Benefits

• Participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process.
• Evaluation based on job-related competencies.
• Protection of candidates’ privacy rights and data security in accordance with applicable laws.

Company Description

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation, or any other status protected or required by law.