Communications Director EMEA H/F - Eaton

Eaton is an intelligent power management company dedicated to protecting the environment and improving the quality of life for people everywhere. We make products for the data center, utility, industrial, commercial, machine building, residential, aerospace and mobility markets. We are guided by our commitment to do business right, to operate sustainably and to help our customers manage power today and well into the future. By capitalizing on the global growth trends of electrification and digitalization, we're helping to solve the world's most urgent power management challenges and building a more sustainable society for people today and generations to come.
Founded in 1911, Eaton has continuously evolved to meet the changing and expanding needs of our stakeholders. With revenues of nearly $25 billion in 2024, the company serves customers in more than 160 countries. For more information, visit Follow us on .Eaton is seeking aCommunications Director EMEA, to act as a strategic enabler and lead all external and internal communications in the region.

What you'll do:

This experienced communications leader will leverage a thoughtful communications strategy to help the company and regional leadership teams achieve their strategic growth and financial goals and elevate Eaton's reputation in the region. In partnership with your EMEA Communications team and other key stakeholders, you'll improve employee performance and engagement, increase leader effectiveness and trust, reduce organizational risk exposure and build preference for the Eaton brand with employees, partners, customers and communities.

- Drive a culture of daring, transparent leadership where trust, accountability and continuous learning are at the core of how we show up and work together.
- Partner and collaborate with global and local communications and business leaders to ensure the company strategy is relevant to all EMEA audiences. Effectively localize and deploy this strategy and other key campaigns within the region.
- Optimize Communications Team resources toward the highest-value work. Actively eliminate and reject low-value work while managing a team budget.
- Develop and drive Eaton positioning with internal and external stakeholders (employees, customers, competitors, government agencies, suppliers, partners).
- Lead, evaluate and develop a high-performing team of dedicated communications professionals to ensure continual learning, engagement and retention. Successfully manage and organize a dispersed team over multiple locations and different countries to deliver results.
- Design, implement and optimize procedures and processes to support the communications strategies, along with metrics to evaluate the effectiveness, efficiency and output of those processes.
- Prepare, review and approve impactful communication materials like speeches, articles, press releases, talking points and communication plans.
- Grow Eaton's relationships with, and coverage in, regional media strategy in alignment with the corporate media strategy.
- Play the role of spokesperson, when needed. Develop relationships with business leadership to increase the pool of spokespersons and ensure they're trained for media, crisis or issues. Act as a professional, senior representative of Eaton in internal and external events.
- Lead the management of crisis and issues in the region, in collaboration with corporate functional leaders. Ensure regional leadership is ready and capable to effectively support and resolve issues. This includes strong mastery in handling sensitive and strategic projects.
- Drive continued advances in company channel strategy, including internet and intranet as well as other tools and platforms.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement by embedding regular performance measurement practices, leveraging data to inform decisions, utilizing AI in greater ways and consistently reporting outcoming to key stakeholders.
- Build strong relationships and alignment with the enterprise Communications team.
- Counsel and advise Region Leadership Team Members on communication approach and message.
- Be the primary Communications team contact for emergency CERT alerts in the region.
- Be resourceful and agile to resolve issues as swiftly and effectively as possible 24/7 across all countries.

Location:

This role will be located in the UK, Ireland, Germany or France. Other EMEA locations may be considered for the right candidate. The travel committment is approximately 30%.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field from an accredited institution. Master's degree Communications, Public Relations, Marketing, or a related field is preferred.
- Minimum of 15 years of experience in corporate communications, public relations, or a related field, with at least 5 years in a leadership role.
- Proven experience in managing communications within a global multi-national manufacturing organization, including understanding of diverse cultural and market dynamics.
- Proven experience in change management (and/or certification), including developing and implementing change management strategies.
- Experience in leading communication efforts during organizational changes, mergers, acquisitions or other significant transformations.
- Strong understanding of communication platforms, technologies and use of AI to drive efficiency and effectiveness.
- Complete fluency in written and verbal English communication skills as well as presentation skills.
- Ability to speak other non-English European languages in the region.

Skills:

- Daring Leadership: Drive a culture of daring, transparent leadership where trust, accountability and continuous learning are at the core of how we work together. Ability to engage and develop strong talent, proven track record in growing successors, ability to provide constructive and positive feedback.
- Building Influence: Positive personal presence, culturally sensitive and able to collaborate across any team or silo. Build and sustain strong relationships at multiple levels of the organization and respected as trusted advisor to senior executives.
- Strategy and Execution: Ability to develop, implement and measure strategic communications plans that link directly to business needs, comfortable with executing directly. Successful experience in the development and implementation of company or business unit level communications strategies.
- Change and innovation: An entrepreneurial mindset ready to seize opportunities, as well as be proactive in identifying trends and future opportunities. Experience in introducing new communications initiatives/practices in both a local and multinational environment.

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.