Master Black Belt

The Master Black Belt is an enterprise leadership role responsible for driving Eaton's transactional excellence strategy across key enterprise value streams, including Record-to-Report, Order-to-Cash, Procure-to-Pay, Hire-to-Retire, Idea-to-Realization, and Plan-to-Perform.

This leader will establish the vision, governance, and operating model for enterprise process excellence while leading a team of Process Excellence Leaders focused on delivering measurable business outcomes. Success in this role requires a combination of executive influence, deep Lean Six Sigma expertise, transformation leadership, and the ability to drive sustainable results across complex global organizations.

Essential Responsibilities:

Enterprise Leadership & Governance
• Own the enterprise transactional excellence strategy, operating model, priorities, and multi-year roadmap across all assigned value streams.
• Serve as a key member of the EBS leadership team, ensuring transactional excellence is integrated into enterprise strategy, governance, and business priorities.
• Partner with Executive Leadership Team members, Global Process Owners, and senior functional leaders to improve end-to-end process performance and drive enterprise-wide adoption of best practices.
• Establish governance processes that translate enterprise priorities into a balanced portfolio of improvement initiatives with clear sponsorship, accountability, decision rights, and value tracking.
• Provide executive leaders with clear, data-driven insights into process performance, transformation progress, risks, and value realization.

Team Leadership & Capability Development
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Process Excellence Leaders supporting enterprise value streams.
• Drive talent strategy, succession planning, performance management, resource allocation, and employee engagement across the team.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, accountability, collaboration, continuous improvement, and customer focus.
• Establish enterprise standards and quality expectations for Lean Six Sigma, process mining, process design, change management, AI-enabled work, and benefits realization.
• Build and sustain an enterprise process excellence capability through training, certification, mentoring, and communities of practice.

Enterprise Process Improvement & Value Realization
• Lead the enterprise transactional improvement portfolio from opportunity identification through implementation, control, and sustained value delivery.
• Ensure each value stream maintains current-state baselines, target-state designs, performance metrics, and prioritized improvement roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
• Apply Lean, Six Sigma, DMAIC, DMADV/DFSS, process redesign, statistical analysis, and change management methodologies to deliver measurable business improvements.
• Drive improvements in productivity, cycle time, quality, customer experience, working capital, cost, compliance, and risk management.
• Partner with Finance and business leaders to validate benefits, establish financial baselines, and ensure sustainable value realization.
• Provide direct leadership for high-impact, enterprise-wide transformation initiatives requiring executive alignment and cross-functional coordination.

Enterprise Standards & Digital Transformation
• Define and implement enterprise standards for transactional processes, controls, governance, and performance management.
• Promote simplification and standardization before automation, leveraging process mining, task mining, AI, analytics, and automation where appropriate.
• Partner with Process Intelligence, Data & AI, Solution Architecture, digital platform teams, and functional leaders to identify and resolve process, technology, data, and…