General Manager - Airport Lighting Products, GEIS

Eaton Corporation • Windsor, CT

12d • $165,000 - $242,000 • Onsite

About The Position

Eaton’s GEIS division is currently seeking a General Manager - Airport Lighting Products, GEIS. This position is onsite at our Windsor, CT facility. Relocation within the United States is provided for this role. Eaton's Airport Lighting Products' systems comprise a wide range of solutions, applications, and products for critical airfield operational elements. An innovative leader in airport lighting, Eaton's Airport Lighting Products expects excellence when responding to the demands of industry - light by light, airport by airport - across the world. Our products respond not only to the changing demands of our customers, but also the global shift toward computerized control and monitoring of lighting systems.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of ten (10) years of professional experience in multi-plant manufacturing organization with at least five (5) years in leadership roles.
• Minimum of five (5) years of Product Line Management and/or Operations experience.
• Strong operations background and direct management of operations with full profit center responsibilities
• Proven business leader with prior interactions with senior executive team
• Financial competence, familiarity with planning, forecasting P&L and operational management
• Accustomed to frequent customer interactions
• Leadership and proven results in long selling cycles businesses
• The ability to execute objectives through a cross-functional organization
• Collaborative and inclusive personal style to ensure effective resolution, determination and deployment of cross functional policies, tools and metrics with peers and associates

Nice To Haves

• 8+ years of Product Line Management and/or Commercial Operations, Project Management experience, preferably with technical products
• SAP Experience
• Experience with international business, global business planning and global channel development
• Prior experience in product marketing, planning and sales in large capital, government projects
• Experience working with government / municipal organizations on specifiable and large capital projects

Responsibilities

• Own and execute the annual strategic growth and operating plan consistent with the results and behavior objectives of the business.
• Responsible for leading all business and functional support operations. Work closely with division and regional staff to deliver functional process standardization and the application of consistent and rigorous performance metrics.
• Accountable for full-profit center performance.
• Ensure operational execution and financial performance to deliver the agreed profit plan.
• Execute established goals for sales growth, market share, profit contribution and return on investment to achieve results through leadership on new growth opportunities for both the established FAA (US) market and, especially, ICAO (International – non-US) opportunities.
• Lead business unit operations, supply chain and logistics to assure high level of customer satisfaction with delivery, quality and services.
• Build high performance culture and organizational capability through effective hiring, placement, development, and motivation and foster a customer-centric culture
• Lead strategic growth strategy through portfolio management via customer feedback, understanding market trends and monitoring competitors and ensure effective coordination cross functionally to execute new product innovation
• Drive disciplined approach to projects and programs through integration of business tools including EBS (Eaton Business System), Value Selling, Six Sigma, Eaton Lean System and PROLaunch (Eaton’s Product Launch process).
• Ensure a safe work environment for all employees through implementation of safety awareness programs and compliance with EHS, OSHA and similar regulatory requirements.

Benefits

• Relocation within the United States is provided for this role.
• This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program.
• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager