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 policy-related issues.
• Develop enterprise performance dashboards and process transparency through scorecards, control towers, and governance reviews.
• Scale proven solutions and best practices across functions, businesses, regions, and acquisitions.

Stakeholder Leadership & Change Management

• Build alignment across businesses and functions to secure sponsorship, resources, and commitment for enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Influence senior leaders without formal authority through business acumen, data-driven decision making, and executive communication.
• Lead organizational change efforts to drive adoption, sustainability, and long‑term business impact.
• Maintain awareness of emerging industry trends and leading practices in process excellence, operational transformation, and digital enablement.

The expected annual salary range for this role is $182000 - $266000 a year. This position is also eligible for a variable incentive program. Please note the salary information shown above is a general guideline only. Salaries are based upon candidate skills, experience, and qualifications, as well as market and business considerations.

Qualifications:

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in process excellence, operational excellence, continuous improvement, and/or business transformation.
• Minimum 5 years of people leadership experience leading enterprise-scale transformation programs and teams.
• Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt certification.
• Authorized to work in the United States without company sponsorship now or in the future.

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or other advanced degree.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives with measurable business outcomes.
• Experience influencing and partnering with senior executives, Global Process Owners, and enterprise stakeholders.
• Deep expertise in Lean Six Sigma methodologies, including DMAIC and DMADV/DFSS.
• Proven track record delivering large-scale transactional transformation across corporate and shared services functions.
• Strong financial acumen, including opportunity sizing, benefits validation, portfolio management, and executive performance reporting.
• Experience with process mining, automation, AI, advanced analytics, and digital transformation initiatives.
• Working knowledge of enterprise ERP platforms and end-to-end transactional processes.
• Experience building and leading geographically dispersed teams with enterprise-wide responsibility.
• Demonstrated success establishing enterprise operating models, governance frameworks, and process standards across multiple functions and regions.
• Exceptional executive presence, communication skills, and ability to influence senior leaders and stakeholders at all levels.

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