[Hiring] Electronics Procurement Program Manager @Eaton Corporation

Role Description

Eaton’s Corporate team is currently seeking a Program Manager with a unique blend of leadership skills, technical acumen, and the ability to drive transformational change across our enterprise. This is a remote role with approximately 25% travel. Candidates must reside within the continental US to be considered.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $130,000 - $190,000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Eaton is embarking on a journey of transformation to better position the business to scale to meet our aggressive financial, growth and transformational objectives while expanding profitability & increasing market share.

To achieve this significant growth, we are investing in:

• Increasing capacity
• Modernizing our digital backbone
• Investing in market-leading technologies such as AI and other predictive technologies
• Updating our business operating model to service our customers as an integrated, fully connected operating company, ONE Eaton

We’ll move from looking at things exclusively through the lens of our individual businesses or product lines or functional teams to connecting and integrating our key processes and data to better serve our customers.

What you’ll do:

• Drive end-to-end Rules of Engagement across Eaton sites and EMS partners, ensuring data accuracy, supplier alignment, and timely execution to minimize the risk of production disruption.
• Oversee supply visibility across an approximately $800M to $1B scope representing roughly 150,000 parts.
• Collect and validate critical site data such as EPNs, MPNs, demand, purchase orders, and drop-dead dates.
• Gather supplier inputs related to lead times, commitments, and allocations.
• Identify single-source and multi-source supply and maintain comprehensive shortage visibility across Eaton and EMS partners.
• Lead analysis and planning activities by performing root cause analysis across lead times, demand, and supply coverage, identifying gaps, and developing appropriate recovery actions.
• Maintain accurate planning parameters and ensure lead times and ERP information are updated to reflect current supply conditions.
• Drive supply assurance by ensuring sufficient PO coverage to meet demand, confirming distributor and EMS purchase orders are placed with manufacturers, securing supplier commitments and allocations, and closely tracking ETAs and delivery schedules.
• Execute recovery strategies to mitigate supply risk, including expediting priority shipments or air freight when necessary, implementing approved alternate parts, rebalancing inventory across locations, and escalating critical supply issues with suppliers and EMS partners.
• Ensure ERP systems at Eaton and EMS partners accurately reflect the current supply situation and support effective planning and decision-making.
• Partner closely with Plant SCM and GPO leads to drive strong cross-functional collaboration and business leadership reviews.
• Proactively highlight supply risks, establish ownership, and track actions through closure.
• Success in this role will result in complete and validated shortage visibility, confirmed supplier and manufacturer commitments, identified and resolved root causes, appropriate PO coverage and supply alignment, on-time material delivery or timely execution of recovery actions, and accurate, aligned ERP data.

Qualifications

• Required (Basic) Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited institution
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in program management, having led programs leveraging globally standard business architecture and methodologies for business or product management.
• Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position.
• Preferred Qualifications:
• Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or other relevant discipline; Masters Degree Preferred
• 10+ years of experience in program management
• PMP or equivalent project management certification
• Experience with Business intelligence tools (e.g., Qlik sense, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, etc)
• Experience with data migration projects and associated challenges.

Requirements

• Expert in project/program management methodologies, including Waterfall, Agile
• Builds and leverages strong cross-functional business relationships to drive program success.
• Thrives in ambiguous environments and effectively operates within gray areas.
• Demonstrates the ability to influence without authority, secure stakeholder buy-in, align diverse interests, and lead organizational adoption of strategic initiatives.
• Up to 25% travel required.

Benefits

• Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits.
• Several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work.