• Manage category strategy and work with cross-functional team to implement strategy on different product lines, consolidate and renationalize our global supplier base, transfer more spend/allocation to strategic suppliers • Manage suppliers in cost, quality, delivery and service to ensure the competitiveness of Littelfuse (including price and commercial terms negotiation), regular business review with strategic suppliers, drive actions for poor performance suppliers • Develop and execute annual cost reduction plan (including VeVa projects, CoS and negotiation) to achieve annual cost reduction targets with cost model implementation, work with engineering team to implement cost saving projects on time; negotiate payment term to ensure competitive DPO • Collaborate with other Category managers on the other regions and support and/or lead negotiations, find new suppliers and help developed other sources within your region. • Monitor industry trends, rules, performance, market conditions; collection of market, competitors’ status and information analysis. • Work closely with cross-functional teams to deliver the market intelligence, industry insight;

• Direct negotiation with suppliers; • Alignment of purchase and delivery schedules with our factories; • Assist in handling purchase requests from internal customers; • Assist in organizing and executing departmental processes; • Entering orders into the system; • Support in creating KPI reports.

• Category Strategy & Development: Identify headroom for growth, setting strategic targets on category share & channel distribution across the Hu & Enjoy Life portfolios. • Define category & competitive landscape informing brand x category. • roadmap for both annual planning and multi-year planning. • Assess consumption performance v. in-year & longer-term roadmaps. • Identify future fit categories in partnership with innovation team. • Support channel & customer development (CCD) team in delivering category toolkits & influencing MAPs strategy. • Category Insights & Research: Set category learning objectives & required budgets in concert with Category Insights Manager (CIM), Insights & Analytics partners (I&A), and Brand team. • Deliver regular category reporting to North America & North American Ventures businesses to illustrate brand priorities & latest learnings. • Utilize & prioritize suite of tools developed by CIM to identify gaps & opportunities for strengthening category x brand insights. • Category Team Leader: Ensure category team delivers on proper tracking to key metrics with robust reporting on category trends, competitive brand performance, consumer trends, customer performance. • Support CIM in refreshing & expanding master selling story in support of category reviews. • Unlock cross-team communication to ensure alignment of objectives, research, and budgets across broader sales x brand x I&A teams. • Oversee team priorities & goal setting, support day-to-day management of category team, foster growth & development within category team.

• Connect Naveera with procurement, vendor management, sourcing, and business leadership teams for potential vendor onboarding opportunities. • Facilitate introductions and strategic discussions with enterprise stakeholders evaluating AI, Data Engineering, Cloud, Analytics, or IT services partners. • Support initial partnership conversations and help align Naveera’s capabilities with enterprise procurement and compliance requirements. • Coordinate with internal procurement, sourcing, and vendor governance teams to accelerate vendor registration and onboarding processes. • Enable long-term strategic partnerships that create opportunities in staffing, project delivery, managed services, and digital transformation initiatives.