Littelfuse is one of America’s Best Mid-Sized Companies (Forbes) and has been named one of the Best Places to Work in Illinois (Best Companies Group) for 11 consecutive years. With its global headquarters in Chicago, Illinois, USA, Littelfuse is a leading, global manufacturer of electronic components serving more than 100,000 end customers across industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets. We have more than 17,000 employees with operations in 15 countries. From semiconductors to sensors… switches to fuses and more… we produce billions of electronic components that help our customers empower a sustainable, connected, and safer world. In 2021, Littelfuse had net sales of $2.1 billion. The Sustainability Director is the central coordinating role for Littelfuse’ s global carbon reduction strategy. This position drives the enterprise-wide portfolio of programs and workstreams accountable for achieving Littelfuse’ s commitment to carbon footprint reduction & sustainable business practices. This Leader is responsible for end-to-end management, developing the cross-functional processes and reporting mechanisms to meet established milestones; following up and course correcting with teams; establishing project management methodologies, standards, and tools; and updating the company, leadership team and the governance council on a regular basis. Scope also includes our supply chain. Engaging our suppliers and outsourced manufacturing partners to ensure their programs support our Sustainability goals. The ideal candidate thrives in an entrepreneurial environment, collaborating with internal and external operational partners across the globe. About your role Start up a new centralized program management function to deliver on carbon reduction ambitions across the company’s value chain (all emissions scopes). Standardize project management across workstreams by establishing integrated implementation plans, key goals, governance structure and cadence, project tracking and review, resource requirements, and data consolidation. Lead and coordinate all quantitative and qualitative reporting to establish a single source of truth of overall program status for partners (30%) Provide a unified view of the program including resource utilization, progress toward commitments, project budget performance and areas needing attention. Work with our suppliers to ensure our goals and expectations are known & met across the gambit of Environmental, Social & Governance areas. Work with our Purchase for Resale & Outsourcing partners to ensure our goals and expectations are known & met across the gambit of Environmental, Social & Governance areas (30%) Develop materials, status dashboards and business cases to update executive leadership team or engage governance council in strategic decision making. Provide guidance and mentorship as needed to ensure sub teams have the tools and training to effectively meet project commitments. Prepare and give updates on progress to company leadership, group leadership and executive governance teams (30%) Work closely with Sustainability Working Group on external communications on the company’s progress to reduce emissions. Establish a LEAN approach to CO2 reduction across our factory network & embed best practices within the Littelfuse Operating System (LFOS) (10%)