Product Line Manager - NEC Panels & Control Solutions

Eaton’s Global Energy Infrastructure Solutions (GEIS) division is currently seeking a Product Line Manager - NEC Panels & Control Solutions. This is a hybrid role for candidates currently residing in Syracuse, NY, Houston, TX, or Moon Township, PA. Relocation is not provided.

The role leads the organization around the portfolio, translating market and customer insight into investment recommendations and cross-functional priorities that deliver profitable sales growth, orders, price realization, product-mix improvement, and gross-margin performance. Responsible for the strategy, financial performance, and lifecycle management of the global NEC Panels and Control Solutions portfolio ($50M+ annual revenue) serving harsh, hazardous, and industrial applications. As the portfolio's primary business owner, the position is accountable for portfolio strategy, roadmap, pricing direction, positioning, commercialization, and lifecycle decisions.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $113000 - $165000 a year. Please note the salary information shown is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

## What you’ll do:

• Financial Performance & Business Ownership: Own portfolio financial performance, including sales, orders, profitability, price realization, product mix, gross-margin performance, and delivery of annual profit-plan commitments; identify performance gaps and lead corrective actions with cross-functional partners.
• Portfolio Strategy, Roadmap & Investment: Develop and maintain the multi-year portfolio strategy and roadmap; identify, evaluate, and prioritize new products, enhancements, partnerships, private-label opportunities, and adjacent markets; and develop business cases and investment recommendations for governance reviews.
• New Product Development & Commercialization: Lead cross-functional new-product initiatives from opportunity definition and business case through validation, launch, customer conversion, adoption, and post-launch performance review, with clear accountability for commercial outcomes.
• Pricing Strategy & Execution: Set pricing direction and recommendations using market, customer value, competitiveness, cost, and profitability insights; partner with sales and finance to improve price realization and manage exceptions through established governance.
• Market, Customer & Competitive Insight: Establish a structured voice-of-customer process and conduct ongoing market, application, channel, and competitor analysis; translate validated insights into portfolio, positioning, specification, roadmap, and investment decisions.
• Cross-Functional Partnership: Collaborate with sales, marketing, engineering, operations, supply chain, finance, and customer service to establish priorities, address barriers, and deliver agreed portfolio outcomes.
• Positioning & Go-to-Market: Develop product positioning, value propositions, commercial launch plans, sales tools, and channel strategies that increase adoption and profitable growth.
• Specification Influence & Commercial Enablement: Build strategic relationships with customers, distributors, contractors, consultants, and engineering, procurement, and construction firms, while providing the technical guidance, training, and sales tools needed to strengthen product specifications, adoption, and profitable growth.
• Product Lifecycle Management: Manage portfolio rationalization, obsolescence planning, regulatory compliance, and supply continuity to protect portfolio health and customer commitments.
• Operational Excellence & VAVE: Lead initiatives that improve quality, product availability, and lead time while reducing complexity and cost through value engineering, sourcing optimization, and cross-functional execution.

## Qualifications:

Basic (Required) Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum of seven (7) years of experience in engineering, project management, marketing, or field sales involving technical products.
• 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, H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, 1-485 job profitability, etc.
• No relocation benefit is being offered for this position. Only candidates residing within a 100-mile radius of Syracuse, NY, Houston, TX, or Moon Township, PA will be considered. Active-duty military members are exempt from this geographical limitation.

Preferred Qualifications:

• MBA
• Experience in the electrical or industrial products industry; HAZLOC experience
• Experience with industrial breakers, control stations and motor control

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