Sustainability Specialist

We make life more comfortable.

Leggett & Platt’s overall mission is a commitment to enhance lives – by delivering quality products, offering empowering and rewarding careers, and doing our part in bringing about a better future.

Leggett & Platt’s inventive heritage and leadership in the residential products industry span more than 130 years. We are the leading supplier of a wide range of products and components for all areas of life, including mattress springs and carpet cushion, as well as bedding machinery and erosion-control products.

From tubing and fabricated assemblies to flooring underlayment and carpet cushion, Leggett & Platt has divisions that design, manufacture, and sell a variety of products. Our reliable product development and launch capability, coupled with our global footprint, make us a trusted partner for customers in the aerospace, hydraulic cylinders, flooring, textile, and geo components industries.

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Leggett & Platt’s Global Sustainability Team drives the organization’s sustainability strategy through leadership and innovation. Five pillars guide our sustainability strategy through 2030 and beyond:
Our People, The Environment, Innovative Products, Supply Chain Management, and Business Governance and Ethics. This Sustainability Team provides oversight of corporate sustainability initiatives and strives for standardization across our corporate policies, business activities, and business unit operations. Through collaboration with global functions, this team makes positive impacts and contributions to environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and corporate governance.

The Sustainability Specialist will support important stakeholder engagement and sustainability programs. This role assists our businesses with sustainability requests; establishes sustainability standardized systems; implements best practices; supports our greenhouse gas emissions inventory and other environmental data collection processes; leads rating and ranking assessments; and advances product stewardship activities. This role will coordinate with members of diverse corporate and business operations/manufacturing teams to execute our sustainability strategy, meet our sustainability goals, and deliver business value.

This position reports to the Sustainability Director.

• Project manage meetings, milestones, and tasks to support continued development and implementation of the sustainability program strategic priorities
• Coordinate cross-functional teams to drive positive rating outcomes, prepare rating and ranking assessments, and engage with rating organizations such as ISS, MSCI, Sustainalytics, etc.
• Design and implement sustainable standardized processes and procedures that promote environmental stewardship, including training and employee engagement programs
• Work with external and internal stakeholders across all business segments to gather data and align resources and efforts to achieve goals and objectives
• Support our business EHS, sales, operations and other teams with customer sustainability assessments, customer meetings, data analysis, best practices, or projects/initiatives/ deliverables
• Support preparation of annual greenhouse gas emissions Scope 1, 2, 3 inventory using GHG accounting technology platforms
• Develop product stewardship strategy informed by value chain hotspots and collaborate with business segments to advance product stewardship initiatives
• Create effective communications, curation, and analysis of data to drive strategies forward and influence without authority
• Continuous system and process improvement
• Conduct benchmarking, baselining, gap analysis, risk‑assessments, and analytical analysis to build business case and support strategic initiatives

• Various other sustainability and ESG‑related duties and project opportunities, as needed

• 4‑6 years of experience working in a sustainability related field
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing, and evaluating sustainability concepts and strategies
• Knowledge of GHG Protocol Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standard, Scope 2 Guidance, and GHG Protocol Corporate Value Chain…