Eaton's ICD (Industrial Controls Division) is currently seeking a Business Transformation Leader to join the team. This is a remote role within the US with approximately 10% travel.
Are you a transformational leader who thrives on simplifying businesses, unlocking profitable growth, and making tough strategic decisions? As ICD's 80/20 & Business Transformation Leader, you'll partner directly with the VP/GM and senior leadership team to accelerate our Drive for Five journey to $500M in revenue. This is a unique opportunity to reshape a global industrial business by determining what to scale, what to simplify, and where to invest for maximum impact.
The expected annual salary range for this role is $146000 - $215000 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.
What you'll do:
The 80/20 Business Transformation Leader is accountable for institutionalizing a permanent 80/20 capability to drive sustained focus on the highest-value products, customers, and operations. This role owns end-to-end value optimization across portfolio, customers, and manufacturing complexity, with authority to lead cross-functional trade-offs that improve margin, simplify operations, and accelerate growth. The Business Transformation leader will shift the organization from complexity-driven growth to focused, profitable, agile, and scalable performance while working closely with senior leaders across the functions.
Essential Functions:
- 80/20 Strategy and Governance: Define and lead the division's 80/20 strategy across product, customer, and operational dimensions. Develop QUADS and QUARTILES and drive segmentation across product lines. Establish governance, decision frameworks, and operating cadence. Build and institutionalize repeatable 80/20 methodologies, playbooks, and tools. Serve as the overarching integrator, ensuring alignment across Product, Sales, and Operations.
- Portfolio Simplification (with Product Management): Co-lead portfolio segmentation (core vs. non-core) and long-term focus strategy. Drive SKU and variant rationalization, platform consolidation, and lifecycle discipline. Establish NPI "complexity gates" to ensure new products align with simplification goals. Balance growth and simplification through productive tension with Product Management.
- Customer and Commercial Focus: Define and implement customer segmentation (A/B/C tiers) based on value and cost-to-serve. Partner with Sales to prioritize top-value customers and channels and improve price realization and commercial discipline. Lead efforts to reduce low-value/custom complexity (e.g., order patterns, customization).
- Operational Efficiency: Partner with Plant Managers, Ops leaders and Engineering to reduce SKU-driven manufacturing complexity, standardize BOMs, routings, and processes, and improve flow, throughput, and lead times. Drive cross-site alignment to simplify footprint and production strategies and increase capacity without significant CapEx.
- Resource Reallocation and Value Capture: Redirect investment (engineering, capital, talent) toward core platforms and high-growth segments. Eliminate low-value activities and enforce "stop-doing" discipline. Own value capture tracking (margin improvement, cost reduction, working capital).
- Capability Building: Embed 80/20 thinking into leader behaviors and daily decision-making. Develop training material and train and coach leaders on value-based prioritization and trade-off decision-making. Develop internal capability through standard work, toolkits, and leader training. Lead RIE events and utilize lean principles to drive business simplification and transformation. Ensure sustainability beyond individual initiatives.
Qualifications:What does success look like?
You are a strategic and results-oriented leader who thrives in complex environments and knows how to turn data into action. You bring strong business acumen, influence across functions, and the ability to make tough decisions that drive growth, improve profitability, and reduce complexity. You have experience in manufacturing, portfolio management, supply chain, pricing, and business analytics, and you use those skills to deliver measurable results. You are a collaborative leader who can align teams, lead cross-functional initiatives, develop others, and drive continuous improvement through Lean and operational excellence practices. Most importantly, you bring fresh perspectives, a continuous improvement and learning mindset, and a passion for building a more focused, agile, and profitable business.
Required (Basic) Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution
- Minimum 10 years of progressive manufacturing leadership experience with a mid or large-sized global industrial manufacturing company
- Minimum 5 years deploying and leading enterprise-wide 80/20 initiatives and programs with a proven track record in business transformation, complexity reduction, and margin expansion
- Eaton will not consider applicants for employment immigration sponsorship or support for this position. This means that Eaton will not support any CPT, OPT, or STEM OPT plans, F-1 to H-1B, H-1B cap registration, O-1, E-3, TN status, I-485 job portability, etc.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience leading portfolio rationalization and product lifecycle decisions
- Background in Lean, continuous improvement, or operational excellence
- Multi-site manufacturing exposure
- Experience embedding enterprise-wide capabilities
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The application window for this position is anticipated to close on 7/13/2026.
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