Vice President Global Sales- Data Center – Amazon Store
Position Overview The Vice President Global Sales- Data Center Segment is a newly created executive role responsible for defining and driving execution of sales and go-to-market strategies with a focus on Hyperscale, Global customers. As a key member of our leadership team you will ensure strategic alignment between customer priorities and Eaton's roadmap, fostering growth, profitability, and long-term, sustainable partnerships across all markets. You will lead the development and delivery of tailored value propositions championing a comprehensive One Eaton approach of products, systems, software and services encompassing UL and IEC products. and precise solutions. You will have the opportunity to build a team of Global Account Directors, bringing your commercial insight, cross cultural fluency, and inspirational leadership to deliver outstanding client experiences. Key Responsibilities Customer Engagement:
- Define and execute the global sales strategy for large Data Center customers.
- Lead the development of relationships at all levels between the customers' and Eaton's organization, ensuring that the voice of customers is clearly articulated.
- Build and maintain executive-level relationships with C-level executives and key decision-makers
- Provide specific Voice of Customer feedback to business stakeholders across the enterprise
- Expand client engagement through client-centric KPIs.
- Ensure global, regional and local account sales, service & support resources are engaged in the execution of the account plan, with agreed priority.
- Build, Inspire, mentor, a high-performing global team of Global Account Directors (GAD), fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and performance across different geographies.
- Establish clear performance goals, providing feedback, and identifying opportunities for professional growth. Design and implement succession planning frameworks
- Oversee seamless delivery of products and services across multiple markets, leading cross-functional teams to achieve program milestones and resolve complex challenges.
- Champion diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across teams and business units.
- Drive sustainable revenue growth by proactively identifying and converting new business opportunities within existing global accounts and creating pursuit teams as needed.
- Monitor, analyze, and report on account performance, including financial forecasting, budgeting, and KPIs, ensuring profitability and efficiency.
- Oversee pipeline management, forecasting, and performance metrics to meet and exceed revenue targets
- Facilitate effective communication between clients and global internal teams, translating client needs into actionable business solutions.
- Represent the voice of the client internally, advocating for their interests and ensuring a consistently high standard of service.
- Represent Eaton's view on datacenters in media and conferences, universities/Marcom activities.
- Lead business reviews, executive briefings, and strategic planning sessions.
- Stay abreast of global industry trends, competitive landscape, and emerging technologies
- Work closely with the chief data center architect and share actionable insights with clients and internal stakeholders to inform strategy and innovation.
- Monitor and analyze AI-driven infrastructure trends to inform strategic direction.
- Evaluate and support the adoption of emerging technologies such as liquid cooling within data centers.
- Provide insights on market and industry intelligence as it relates to digital transformation and infrastructure efficiency.
- Ensure all client engagements and deliveries comply with local and international regulatory requirements, internal policies, and ethical standards.
- Oversee contractual obligations and manage escalations with discretion and professionalism.
- Partner with Sales Ops and IT to create standard work with SalesForce across the accounts lifecycle. Enforce standards across all key account teams
- Regularly conduct process reviews and drive CI with the sales ops leader
- Work with regions to agree on GTM and staffing for large international accounts
- Bachelor's degree required, MBA or other relevant advanced degree preferred
- 10+ years' progressive leadership experience within a highly matrix global organization in a similar scope/scale role.
- 5+ years experience in a senior leadership role, preferably in hyperscale or cloud infrastructure.
- Proven track record of successfully managing complex, high-value accounts across countries and cultural contexts.
- Significant expertise in negotiating large strategic deals. leading cross-functional teams.
- Deep understanding of data center technologies, ESG drivers, AI and sustainability trends and global solution delivery
- Demonstrated expertise in Data Center infrastructure and design, with specific hands-on experience in white space and/or grey space environments.
- Strong industry presence and reputation for building trusted relationships
- Experience navigating organizational change and leading through ambiguity
- Proven ability to influence commercial, technical, and executive stakeholders
- Familiarity with Eaton's MTDC and Hyperscale organizational structure and differentiators
- Fluency in English is required; proficiency in additional languages is considered highly advantageous.