EMEA Strategy Excellence Leader

Unlock Your Potential at Eaton: Where Diversity Drives Innovation. No matter where you come from, your aspirations matter to us. We believe in the power of different perspectives, experiences, and backgrounds to ignite innovation and drive success. We are looking for a Strategy Excellence professional for the EMEA region, who will operate at regional executive level and will lead the deployment of the EMEA Strategic Planning process, with disciplined follow-up across Strategic Marketing and Offer Management workstreams.

The role serves as the central orchestration point for EMEA-wide strategic initiatives, enabling leadership alignment, clear prioritization, and disciplined execution. The position reports to the EMEA Segment Strategy and Offer Management Director and partners closely with EMEA executive leadership and senior stakeholders. Operating in a matrix environment, the role combines strategic framing with hands-on orchestration and performance governance, while integrating customer, market, and external perspectives into regional strategy discussions.

The role is available for the following locations:

• United Kingdom - London
• France - Paris
• Spain - Madrid
• Italy - Milan
• Germany - Bonn
• Turkey - Ankara & Istanbul
• Czech Republic - Prague
• Hungary - Budapest

Key Responsibilities

• Enterprise strategy and prioritization: Lead coordination of the EMEA strategic planning process across business units, segments and functions. Structure strategic topics, options, and recommendations to support leadership reviews, arbitration, and decision-making. Drive prioritization of initiatives, resources, and focus areas to support growth, profitability, and capital efficiency across EMEA. Ensure alignment between regional strategy, segment strategies, and execution plans.
• Strategy orchestration and governance: Act as the central orchestration point for EMEA strategic initiatives across businesses, regions, and functions. Prepare and structure strategy reviews, leadership forums, and executive materials. Ensure stakeholder alignment ahead of leadership meetings and key decisions. Support executive leadership in making growth, investment, and portfolio trade-offs across businesses. Shape and maintain coherent strategic narratives across initiatives and leadership forums.
• Execution excellence and follow-through: Monitor progress of strategic initiatives against agreed milestones, deliverables, and KPIs. Identify execution risks, misalignment, or performance gaps and drive corrective actions with initiative owners. Reinforce execution discipline, accountability, and transparency across initiatives, while operating as a strategic orchestrator.
• Performance management and strategic insight: Define, maintain, and govern EMEA performance dashboards and executive reporting. Lead targeted strategic and commercial analyses to support leadership decisions, including market, customer, and business performance deep dives. Leverage systems and data to identify trends, patterns, risks, and opportunities.
• Customer experience and NPS governance: Own EMEA Net Promoter Score governance, reporting and executive-level synthesis. Ensure NPS insights are connected across the organization and translated into concrete improvement actions. Track execution and impact of customer-driven initiatives.
• Operating model and excellence: Support deployment of Eaton Business System to enable strategy execution and continuous improvement. Strengthen governance, cadence, and decision-making processes across EMEA strategic initiatives.
• Leadership and stakeholder engagement: Partner closely with EMEA executive leadership and senior stakeholders across businesses and functions. Influence without direct authority through strong executive communication, clarity, and trust. Foster collaboration and alignment across regions, segments, and functions in a matrix organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in technical studies or/and marketing, MBA or equivalent preferred.
• 5+ years of experience in corporate strategy, business development, or equivalent roles in a complex, matrix organization.
• Strong strategic judgment combined with hands-on execution orientation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence senior leaders without formal authority.
• Strong business and financial acumen.
• Executive presence with clear, structured, and concise communication skills.
• Relevant industry/sector experience.
• Willingness to travel 40%.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation skills with the ability to be persuasive in front of own sales people, customers, partners, industry influencers, competitors, policymakers.
• Self-starter, energetic with great collaboration skills in a matrix environment.
• Team player across geographies, product lines and functions.
• Analytical Thinking.
• Influential leadership.
• Passionate about customers and understanding how to solve their challenges.
• Flexible on working arrangements – willingness to travel up to 40% of the time.
• Valid driving license.
• Fluent level of English.

What we offer

• Competitive compensation and benefits package.
• Challenging projects in dynamic collaborative team.
• Eaton encourages internal promotion, whenever possible.
• We invest in our employees for the long term – not just with salary and benefits, but with ongoing learning and development opportunities made available through Eaton University.
• Reliability, safety, efficiency, and sustainability are at the core of our dedication to improving people’s lives and the environment through power management technologies.
• We put your health and safety first. Wellness at Eaton is more than a program, it’s about changing the environment by offering the right tools to help empower employees to make that happen.

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.