General Manager - Life Safety & Distributed Power Infrastructure, Multifunction Executive

The opportunity:

We are seeking a commercially driven General Manager to lead and grow this sizeable, profitable portfolio. With direct P&L responsibility, the GM will work with product line strategy, marketing, engineering, and commercial leaders to determine where we invest, accelerate, modernise, expand or reshape the portfolio, comprising Emergency Lighting, Fire and Intrusion, North America Fire and Distributed Power Infrastructure (single-phase UPS and white-space products).

This is a senior leadership role with a clear strategic ambition to grow beyond $1bn revenue by 2030. The GM will lead 1500 people through ten direct reports and shape strategy across EMEA and globally, including operations in the United States and China. The role will combine direct leadership of Product Line Management, Marketing, Engineering and Operations with influence across the sales organisation, supply chain and quality. It carries full accountability for business performance and portfolio direction.

What you’ll do:

What you'll bring:

• 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, and aligning sales, supply chain and quality through a matrix.
• Track record of portfolio transformation, new product introduction, digitalisation and innovation in highly regulated markets.
• Success influencing senior commercial, engineering, operational and functional leaders to align priorities and investment choices.
• Experience building and leading cross-functional and geographically distributed teams.

Preferred:

• Direct experience in electrical, power management, lighting, fire, life safety, building technology or another regulated engineered-product environment.

Qualifications:

• Significant general management and leadership experience, including direct P&L responsibility at $XXXm scale.
• Experience leading managers and geographically distributed cross-functional teams.

How you'll lead:

Eaton’s Culture Model calls on leaders to Win Together, Think Big and Act Boldly. In this role, that means:

Win Together - Build trust and alignment across product lines, countries and functions. Bring product, commercial, engineering and operational priorities into a coherent direction, respecting matrix accountabilities while challenging local optimisation. Create constructive tension where growth ambition, investment, portfolio priorities and execution capacity do not align.

Think Big - Connect customer needs, market opportunity, regulation and technology across the full LSDPI portfolio. Identify where connected products, digital services, stronger channels and Eaton’s broader commercial reach can create meaningful customer and enterprise value. Balance long-term portfolio direction with near-term performance and customer commitments.

Act Boldly - Make explicit choices rather than producing broad strategic themes. Challenge incremental thinking, outdated technology, weak market coverage and unsupported investment logic. Surface difficult trade-offs and provide clear direction that enables teams to make decisive portfolio, product, market and investment choices.