What we offer: Responsible to systematically improve the ecologic footprints of KION’s products and solutions by initiating, supporting, and monitoring projects at dedicated departments with an impact on Product Sustainability (R&D, Purchasing, and other) and to report the resulting improvements of the associated product sustainability KPIs. Accountabilities: - Review, improve and implement the overall Product Portfolio Sustainability Strategy periodically - Identify certain improvement areas for sustainability using the internal and external sustainability ecosystem - Specify associated projects in cooperation with the corresponding development unit - Determine the necessary budget and achieving budget confirmation, as well as tracking budget utilization and compliance. - Project controlling of the projects running in terms of content, target achievement, timeline, and budget - Ensure that the sustainable solutions found find their way into the products, even if they should be associated with tolerable increases in manufacturing costs Interal Interfaces: - R&D, Purchasing and other CTO-departments with an impact on Product Sustainability - Departments and experts responsible for (Product) Sustainability Reporting - Departments and experts responsible for assessing ecologic and economic life cycle footprints of KION products (Lifecycle Assessments and cradle2cradle assessments) - Departments and experts responsible for monitoring regulatory requirements on products’ ecologic footprint - Product Management, Sales, Service External Interfaces: - External sustainability ecosystem (Benchmark companies, lead customers, universities,) Tasks and Qualifications: Professional experience: Managing complex projects Qualification: University degree on Product sustainability engineering or equivalent Competences and skills: - Keeping track on performance/quality/cost or similar results of projects/sales/production/quality or alike, - accuracy and overview at the same time, and on comprehensive projects and complex matters, collaborative and appreciative attitude, - create and foster and steer collaboration within teams, - English language