Founding Director of Transactional Excellence & AI Transformation

Eaton; Houston (TX); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton's Corporate Sector seeks a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader for the Eaton Transaction System (ETS). This founding, enterprise-level role aligns Lean process design with AI-enabled transformation across SG&A and transactional functions.

You will lead end-to-end improvements, leverage process mining, and partner with Solution Architecture to deliver measurable business outcomes, establishing standards for R2R and transactional value streams as a founding ETS Office member.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of experience leading process improvement and business transformation initiatives for Record-to-Report 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.
• Partner with process owners and Solution Architecture teams to align process, technology, and system capabilities.

Skills

Process improvement

Stakeholder engagement

Lean Six Sigma

Process mining

AI-enabled workflows

Education

Bachelor's degree

Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt

Tools

Celonis

ERP systems

Automation & RPA

Job description

Eaton's Corporate Sector seeks a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader for the Eaton Transaction System (ETS). This founding, enterprise-level role aligns Lean process design with AI-enabled transformation across SG&A and transactional functions.

You will lead end-to-end improvements, leverage process mining, and partner with Solution Architecture to deliver measurable business outcomes, establishing standards for R2R and transactional value streams as a founding ETS Office member.