Enterprise Transactional Excellence Leader, AI-Driven

Eaton; Royal Pines (NC); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton seeks a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader for the Eaton Transaction System (ETS). This founding, enterprise-wide role drives Lean, process intelligence, and AI-enabled transformation across SG&A and transactional workflows.

The role leads end-to-end improvements, sets enterprise standards, and partners with architecture and process owners to deliver measurable outcomes. A Center of Excellence mindset and global scope are expected.

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.
• 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

Process improvement

Business transformation

Lean Six Sigma

DMAIC/DFSS

Process mining

Automation & AI

Executive influence

Change management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Tools

Celonis

RPA tools

ERP systems

Job description

Eaton seeks a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader for the Eaton Transaction System (ETS). This founding, enterprise-wide role drives Lean, process intelligence, and AI-enabled transformation across SG&A and transactional workflows.

The role leads end-to-end improvements, sets enterprise standards, and partners with architecture and process owners to deliver measurable outcomes. A Center of Excellence mindset and global scope are expected.