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Role purpose Shape the success of Digital Energy’s most strategic and complex customer projects across the region. As a highly visible individual contributor, the Regional Operations Manager leads through influence—connecting and mobilising country teams, Digital Energy Application Centres, engineering centres, partners and global experts across Digital Buildings and Digital Power. The role creates the conditions for a consistent customer experience and safe, predictable and profitable multi-country delivery, while strengthening local capabilities and advancing the unified 1Solution execution model. Key accountabilities Regional delivery leadership: Maintain an end-to-end view of the regional project portfolio, with direct leadership of strategic or complex projects and rapid deployment of regional support where local capability or capacity is insufficient. Project performance: Secure scope, schedule, quality, resource and margin commitments through robust planning, governance, risk and opportunity management, transparent reporting, and timely escalation. Customer confidence: Act as a trusted operational interface for key end users, align contractors and internal stakeholders, and lead recovery plans when delivery, safety or technical performance is at risk. Cross-domain execution: Promote a common Digital Buildings and Digital Power delivery approach, preserving domain expertise while improving coordination across engineering, software, testing, commissioning and lifecycle services. Scalable execution: Apply common standards, tools, documentation and governance; capture lessons learned; and turn project experience into reusable methods that improve quality, speed and profitability. Capability and resource orchestration: Mobilise the right expertise across countries, partners and engineering centres; anticipate workload; establish effective handovers; and build local autonomy through coaching and knowledge transfer. Business and stakeholder leadership: Build a regular operating rhythm with country, zone and global business leaders, as well as customer executives, partners and contractors. Use these interactions to review performance, align priorities, surface risks, accelerate decisions, coordonne local and global support resources, and ensure that proposed solutions are executable, competitive and aligned with customer outcomes. What success looks like Strategic projects delivered safely, on time and within approved financial commitments. Risks identified early, decisions accelerated and recovery actions sustained through closure. Customers experience clear ownership, consistent communication and dependable technical delivery. Digital Buildings and Digital Power teams operate through a coordinated 1Solution execution backbone. Local teams grow in capability, while regional and global expertise is used efficiently and transferred effectively. Lessons learned improve future tenders, standards, resource plans and project margins. Growth and development The role provides strong professional development through exposure to complex regional operations, strategic customers, and senior internal and external stakeholders. The selected individual will strengthen their knowledge of Digital Buildings and Digital Power while developing executive communication, commercial judgement, governance, negotiation, change leadership, and the ability to influence across cultures and organisational boundaries. This experience can prepare the individual for broader regional, global operations, or business leadership roles. Experience and competencies Proven delivery leadership in complex, multi-stakeholder projects, preferably in building automation, power management, energy management or mission-critical environments. Strong command of project management fundamentals: planning, commercial performance, contract awareness, resource management, change control, risk, quality, safety and governance. Ability to connect technical detail with customer priorities and business outcomes, and to make sound decisions under pressure. Demonstrated ability to lead multicultural, cross-functional and geographically distributed teams through influence, credibility and clear accountability, without direct line-management authority. Clear, factual and influential communication, including executive reporting, customer engagement, negotiation and escalation management. Working understanding of integrated Digital Buildings and Digital Power architectures, software-led systems and lifecycle services; deeper expertise in at least one domain is expected. Leadership behaviours grounded in ownership, collaboration, resilience, curiosity, inclusion and continuous improvement. Personal profile The successful candidate is hands-on, attentive and self-driven: willing to engage with operational detail, listen carefully to customers and teams, and take ownership from issue identification through resolution. They combine pragmatism with strategic perspective, remain calm and resilient under pressure, and demonstrate curiosity, adaptability and sound judgement. They build trust through transparency and follow-through, challenge constructively when needed, and collaborate across cultures and organisational boundaries to turn alignment into action. Why join Schneider Electric? 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