Electronics Procurement Program Manager

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 $130000 - $190000 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.

Position Overview

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 AI and other predictive technologies, and updating our business operating model to service our customers as an integrated, and 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. The role will oversee supply visibility across an approximately $800M to $1B scope representing roughly 150,000 parts. Responsibilities include collecting and validating critical site data such as EPNs, MPNs, demand, purchase orders, and drop-dead dates, while gathering supplier inputs related to lead times, commitments, and allocations. The position will 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. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.

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.

Position Criteria

• 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. Brings structure to complex, evolving challenges, proactively identifies paths forward despite uncertainty, and enables progress when processes, requirements, or organizational ownership are not fully defined.
• 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.

All positions may require participation in video and in-person interviews as part of the hiring process. All candidates will be evaluated based on job-related competencies, and all candidates’ privacy rights and data security will be protected in accordance with applicable laws.

The application window for this position is anticipated to close on 10-20-2026.

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We know that good benefit programs are important to employees and their families. Eaton provides various Health and Welfare benefits as well as Retirement benefits, and several programs that provide for paid and unpaid time away from work. Click here for more detail: Eaton Benefits Overview. Please note that specific programs and options available to an employee may depend on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.