Program Manager Direct Current for Data Center (DC for DC) EMEA
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About the Role
Eaton is seeking a senior Program Manager to lead the DC for DC EMEA program, orchestrating Eaton's data center electrical solution portfolio for hyperscale and colocation customers.
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Responsibilities
- Establish and lead the DC for DC EMEA program covering Eaton’s full data center power value chain
- Define clear program governance, milestones, success criteria, and escalation mechanisms across participating divisions
- Ensure program execution on schedule and within approved budgets
- Coordinate new product development roadmaps across multiple Eaton divisions to ensure architectural coherence
- Act as senior technical interface for hyperscale and colocation customers in EMEA
- Consolidate inputs from divisions into clear program dashboards and executive summaries
- Proactively identify technical, organizational, or execution risks and lead cross functional teams to resolve issues
- Contribute to Eaton’s long term data center strategy
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering; Master's degree preferred
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in power systems, electrical infrastructure, or data center technology environments
- Proven experience working with hyperscale and/or colocation data center customers
- Prior experience in R&D, advanced engineering, systems engineering, or complex technical program leadership roles
- Strong understanding of data center electrical architectures, including MV and LV distribution, ACBs, UPS systems, energy storage, busway, and redundancy concepts
- Ability to lead through influence in a matrix organization
- Strong program management discipline and executive communication skills
- Excellent written and spoken English
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Role Summary
- The DC for DC EMEA Program Manager is responsible for orchestrating and governing Eaton’s end to end data center electrical solution portfolio for hyperscale and colocation customers across EMEA.
- This role ensures that product development, system architectures, and customer engagement activities across multiple Eaton divisions are aligned into a coherent, competitive, and execution ready offering.
- Operating as a senior, technical program leader with strong systems engineering credibility, the Program Manager leads through influence across R&D, product management, engineering, and commercial teams.
- This is a newly created, strategic role reporting directly to the VP/GM.
What You’ll Do
- Establish and lead the DC for DC EMEA program covering Eaton’s full data center power value chain, including MVSST, 800VDC Switchboard, DC Remote Power Panel, Solid State Breakers, BESS, Busway, digital power management, and related software and services.
- Define clear program governance, milestones, success criteria, and escalation mechanisms across participating divisions.
- Ensure the program is executed on schedule and within approved budgets, with disciplined tracking of progress, risks, and dependencies.
- Coordinate new product development roadmaps across multiple Eaton divisions to ensure architectural coherence and compatibility for hyperscale and colocation data center applications.
- Work closely with divisional R&D, power systems engineering, and product management teams to align technical assumptions, interfaces, and performance targets.
- Identify portfolio gaps, overlaps, or misalignments impacting customer requirements and drive resolution through structured action plans and executive escalation where required.
- Ensure structured and continuous customer engagement throughout the product and solution development lifecycle.
- Act as a senior technical interface for hyperscale and colocation customers in EMEA.
- Coordinate with regional teams in APAC and the Americas to align customer learnings, program progress, and best practices globally.
- Consolidate inputs from divisions into clear program dashboards, executive summaries, and decision materials for senior leadership.
- Proactively identify technical, organizational, or execution risks and lead cross functional teams to resolve issues before customer or market impact.
- Drive disciplined follow up on actions, ensuring accountability and closure across divisional stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering or Power Systems Engineering; Master’s degree preferred.
- Minimum 10–15 years of experience in power systems, electrical infrastructure, or data center technology environments.
- Proven experience working with hyperscale and/or colocation data center customers.
- Prior experience in R&D, advanced engineering, systems engineering, or complex technical program leadership roles.
Skills
- Strong understanding of data center electrical architectures, including MV and LV distribution, ACBs, UPS systems, energy storage, busway, and redundancy concepts.
- Ability to ensure system level technical coherence through collaboration with divisional experts rather than hands on detailed design ownership.
- Credibility based leadership and the ability to lead through influence in a matrix organization.
- Strong program management discipline and executive communication skills.
- Ability to operate confidently with senior internal leaders and demanding external customers.
- Structured, action oriented mindset with a strong bias toward execution and issue resolution.
- Excellent written and spoken English.
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