Enterprise Transactional Excellence Leader

Eaton; Menomonee Falls (WI); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton is seeking a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader to drive the Eaton Transaction System (ETS), a founding, enterprise-scale initiative across SG&A and transactional functions. The role blends Lean, process design, analytics, and AI-enabled automation to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency and user experience.

As a founding member of the ETS Office, you will establish standards, collaborate with Solution Architecture, and lead capability-building across global process owners

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• 10+ years of experience leading process improvement and business transformation initiatives for Idea-to-Realization Value Stream.
• Authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end process improvement initiatives across corporate and transactional functions, from problem identification through sustained results.
• Assess current-state processes using observation, stakeholder engagement, process mining, and data analysis to identify waste, variation, rework, and ineffective handoffs.
• Establish process visibility, measurement integrity, and accurate performance baselines; identify previously unmeasured work.
• Drive root-cause resolution by improving upstream process conditions, not downstream symptoms.
• Apply Lean Six Sigma methodologies (DMAIC, DMADV/DFSS) to improve and redesign transactional workflows.
• Perform root-cause analysis, evaluate process capability, validate outcomes, and implement sustainable controls and governance.
• Partner with process owners and Solution Architecture teams to align process, technology, and system capabilities.
• Quantify business impact through improvements in cost, quality, speed, risk, and productivity.
• Coach leaders and teams in continuous improvement disciplines and capability building.

Skills

Lean Six Sigma

DMAIC/DFSS

Process mining

RPA/Automation

AI-enabled transformation

ERP knowledge

Influence executive leaders

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Celonis

ERP systems

Job description

Eaton is seeking a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader to drive the Eaton Transaction System (ETS), a founding, enterprise-scale initiative across SG&A and transactional functions. The role blends Lean, process design, analytics, and AI-enabled automation to deliver measurable improvements in efficiency and user experience.

As a founding member of the ETS Office, you will establish standards, collaborate with Solution Architecture, and lead capability-building across global process owners