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.
About the Role:
The Sr. Executive Assistant to the CEO plays a crucial role in ensuring the smooth operation of the executive's daily activities and overall business functions. The ideal candidate has strong technology, organizational, and communication skills and will provide a senior-level administrative partnership with the new CEO leading a well-established tech company in Chicago to support function for the dynamic leader of this global organization.
About the job:
- Administrative Support: Manage the CEO's calendar, including scheduling meetings, appointments, and travel arrangements. Handle correspondence, including emails, phone calls, and mail.
- Meeting Coordination: Organize and coordinate meetings, including preparing agendas, taking minutes, and following up on action items. Ensure the CEO is well-prepared for meetings with relevant materials and information
- Project Management: Assist in managing and tracking key projects and initiatives. Coordinate with various departments to ensure project deadlines are met.
- Communication: Serve as a liaison between the CEO and other executives, employees, and external stakeholders. Draft and review communications on behalf of the CEO.
- Confidentiality: Handle sensitive information with the utmost discretion and confidentiality. Maintain confidentiality of all corporate, personnel, and research matters.
- Strategic Calendar Management: Coordinate and schedule domestic and global meetings in a proactive manner
- Relationship Management: Foster and maintain relationships with various stakeholders
- Creative Problem-solving: Address challenges with innovative solutions
- International and Domestic Travel Management: Arrange travel plans for the CEO
- Event Management: Organize and manage events
About You:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- A minimum of 10 years of global and Senior-level / C-Suite executive support experience.
- Proficient in technology –e.g., Microsoft Office Suite and other collaborations tools.
- Proven ability to anticipate needs, managing multiple priorities, project management, administrative coordination, and logistics; demonstrate solid good problem-solving capabilities and strategic management.
- Excellent organizational and time-management skills. Strong written and verbal communication abilities.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to work well with various stakeholders.
- High level of professionalism and discretion. Ability to maintain confidentiality
- High emotional intelligence and the ability to handle various situations calmly.
- Comfortable working in dynamic environment.
- Self-directed and Proactive Focus: Liberate executive time as much as possible
Compensation Package:
- The salary offered will vary depending on your location, job-related skills, knowledge, and experience, this range is provided as a general guideline and does not guarantee a specific salary. We are committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.
- We offer a variety of benefits, including development opportunities like internal Lean Six Sigma Certification, health and sports programs, annual performance-based bonus.
Littelfuse strives to empower associate growth and development in a culture of ongoing collaboration and respect for diverse global perspectives and expertise. Our Core Values – Respect, Customer Focus, Agility, and Collaboration – support us on our mission to improve the safety, reliability, efficiency, and performance of our customers’ products and systems.
We are an equal opportunity employer that takes pride in giving every associate the means and courage to make a difference – everywhere, every day.
Salary Range:
$99,700 - $139,480
The salary offered will vary depending on your location, job-related skills, knowledge, and experience.
Top Skills
What We Do
Littelfuse is an industrial technology manufacturing company empowering a sustainable, connected, and safer world. Across more than 15 countries, and with 17,000 global associates, we partner with customers to design and deliver innovative, reliable solutions. Serving over 100,000 end customers, our products are found in a variety of industrial, transportation, and electronics end markets—everywhere, every day. Headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, United States, Littelfuse was founded in 1927.
View our broad and deep product portfolio:
https://www.littelfuse.com/
Littelfuse has had a long-standing commitment to ensuring a diversified workforce through equal employment opportunities. Maintaining a diversified workforce is critical to the success of our organization.
Each associate receives equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, religion, creed, sex (with or without sexual conduct), marital status, national origin, citizenship, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, order of protection status, military status, sexual orientation, gender expression or identity, genetic information, unfavorable discharge from military service, and any other protected class under federal, state or local law
