Senior Leader, AI-Driven Transactional Excellence

Eaton; Coraopolis (Allegheny County); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton's Corporate Sector is seeking a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader to drive enterprise-scale improvements across Procure-to-Pay and transactional value streams. This founding role combines Lean design with AI-enabled automation to reduce cycle times and improve quality, while building standards for the One Eaton Way.

You will partner with global process owners, establish governance, and mentor practitioners as part of the ETS Office, delivering measurable business outcomes and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of experience leading process improvement and business transformation initiatives for Procure-to-Pay 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

Lean Six Sigma

Process mining

AI-enabled workflows

Change management

ERP transaction processing

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Celonis

RPA

ERP systems

Job description

Eaton's Corporate Sector is seeking a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader to drive enterprise-scale improvements across Procure-to-Pay and transactional value streams. This founding role combines Lean design with AI-enabled automation to reduce cycle times and improve quality, while building standards for the One Eaton Way.

You will partner with global process owners, establish governance, and mentor practitioners as part of the ETS Office, delivering measurable business outcomes and