Technology Manager- Data Center

ould establish positive working relations with various local and global stakeholders and cross functional team to facilitate open dialogue and trust building across the organization. The focus should be on standardization of processes and practices that will enable organization to engineer secure, future-proof, optimized solutions, while helping to improve efficiency and productivity in a data-driven framework. This role should be leveraging the Eaton Business System (EBS) and relevant industry standards. This role will also network, collaborate and influence with various engineering leaders across the local and global organization to support or lead various initiative prescribed in Eaton Business System (EBS).

Eaton India Innovation Center (EIIC) is seeking a Technology Manager - Data Center Energy and Thermal Research to lead the strategic research portfolio for the Data Center segment. This position is based at our Magarpatta City, Pune office. The role will provide leadership across multiple initiatives under Data Center themes focused on Power and Thermal systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Resource & Capacity Management: Plan and govern budgets for people, software, hardware, and lab infrastructure to ensure optimal capacity and capability.
• Execution Excellence: Champion Eaton Business System (EBS) implementation to enhance capabilities and drive flawless execution of Data Center programs.
• Leadership & Team Development: Foster a high-performance culture by coaching, motivating, and reviewing team accomplishments to support professional growth.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Ensure effective communication and responsiveness to stakeholder requirements across business units and research teams.
• Innovation & Digitalization: Promote frugal innovation and digital engineering methods to accelerate speed-to-market for new product development.
• Continuous Improvement: Implement frameworks that build a learning culture and sustainable competitive advantage through process and system improvements.

Qualifications:

• Masters in mechanical or electrical engineering

• 12+ years of industry experience with significant exposure in working with global cross functional team. Experience in managing stakeholder relationships working closely with multi-functional global senior leadership. min 3-4 years of experience in Data Center domain. Must have demonstrated accomplishments in scaling up organization while leading efforts to deploy Digitalization, Engineering Excellence, Manufacturing

• Excellence and Niche capability development.

Skills:

• Experience of working on broad range of products in data center, industrial and electrical applications
• Experience in handling New Product and Technology Development leveraging stage gate approach
• Experience in hiring and developing senior organizational and technical leadership talents
• Exposure to budgeting and portfolio management methods, processes & tools
• Depth of understanding on Product Design, Lean, DfSS, Digitalization and Design for Manufacturing
• Drive for results - can be counted on to exceed goals successfully
• Motivating others - creates a climate in which people want to do their best; is someone people like working for
• Managerial courage - doesn't hold back that needs to be said; provides positive & corrective feedbacks
• Decision quality - makes good decisions based upon a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience, and judgment
• Business acumen - knows how business work; knowledgeable in current and possible future technologies