Strategic Transactional Excellence Leader – AI & Lean

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

Job summary

Eaton's Corporate Sector seeks a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader – Eaton Transaction System (ETS). This founding, enterprise-level role drives process excellence across SG&A and transactional functions, leveraging process mining, AI-enabled workflows, and Lean Six Sigma to reduce cycle times and errors while improving user experience.

The role requires deep business transformation experience, hands-on leadership, and the ability to partner with Global Process Owners and Solution

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification with experience coaching and developing practitioners.
• Minimum 10 years of experience leading process improvement and/or business transformation initiatives.
• 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 Master Black Belt

Process Improvement

Data Analysis

Stakeholder Engagement

Change Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Celonis

RPA

ERP Systems

Job description

Eaton's Corporate Sector seeks a Principal Transactional Excellence Leader – Eaton Transaction System (ETS). This founding, enterprise-level role drives process excellence across SG&A and transactional functions, leveraging process mining, AI-enabled workflows, and Lean Six Sigma to reduce cycle times and errors while improving user experience.

The role requires deep business transformation experience, hands-on leadership, and the ability to partner with Global Process Owners and Solution