Strategic Process Excellence Leader | AI-Enabled Transformation

Eaton Corporation; Raleigh (NC); On-site; USD 165,000 - 242,000; Full time

Job summary

Eaton Corporation seeks an experienced leader to drive enterprise transformation and process excellence across corporate functions. You will guide end-to-end improvements, using Lean Six Sigma, process mining, and data analytics to deliver measurable value.

collaborates with Architecture teams to align processes with technology and governance while building capability across the organization. This role requires a strategic mindset and hands-on coaching.

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.
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification is preferred.

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.
• Define and maintain enterprise transactional standards and exception-management protocols across R2R.
• Design AI-enabled and automated workflows that follow a standardize-before-automate approach and Lean principles.

Skills

Process improvement

Lean Six Sigma

Data analysis

Stakeholder engagement

Process mining

Root cause analysis

Coaching leaders

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Celonis

ERP systems

Automation & AI tools

RPA

Job description

Eaton Corporation seeks an experienced leader to drive enterprise transformation and process excellence across corporate functions. You will guide end-to-end improvements, using Lean Six Sigma, process mining, and data analytics to deliver measurable value.

collaborates with Architecture teams to align processes with technology and governance while building capability across the organization. This role requires a strategic mindset and hands-on coaching.