This specialist role is the global process owner and strategic program lead for embedding circular economy principles across the end-to-end IT hardware lifecycle. The role translates enterprise sustainability commitments into operating standards, governance controls, vendor requirements, and measurable outcomes across the entire lifecycle, from planning to end-of-life disposition. This role supports a large, multinational IT environment with distributed operations and a broad supplier ecosystem, partnering with various internal teams to increase asset longevity, reduce virgin material demand, improve recovery value, and ensure compliant management of e-waste and cross-border asset flows.
Responsibilities
Operationalize enterprise circular IT strategy across global IT asset lifecycle processes
Establish governance, standards, and controls that make reuse, refurbishment, redeployment, and compliant recovery the default path wherever feasible
Strengthen vendor management across ITAD, refurbishment, leasing, logistics, maintenance, and recycling partners
Monitor and interpret global asset, e-waste, and environmental regulations that affect IT hardware lifecycle activities, and convert those requirements into operational controls, policy updates, and vendor expectations
Deliver measurable business value through cost avoidance, residual value recovery, reduced waste, improved reporting quality, and lower lifecycle emissions
Lead the design and continuous evolution of the global circular IT asset lifecycle strategy in alignment with enterprise sustainability, IT operations, procurement, and finance objectives
Define the target operating model for circular asset management across device planning, acquisition, deployment, break/fix, refresh, redeployment, collection, disposition, and reporting
Establish enterprise standards for
Build the roadmap, policies, and implementation priorities needed to scale circular practices consistently across regions, business units, and managed service environments
Own end-to-end lifecycle process standards for laptops, desktops, monitors, peripherals, mobile devices, network hardware, and other in-scope IT assets
Partner with ITAM, CMDB, endpoint engineering, service desk, field support, and regional IT teams to embed circular checkpoints into operational workflows and control points
Define minimum data requirements for asset traceability, disposition coding, chain of custody, reuse eligibility, residual value capture, component harvesting, and verified downstream treatment
Identify leakage points where assets are lost, held too long, bypass approved channels, or move to disposal prematurely, then implement corrective actions
Own the circular IT vendor governance framework for ITAD providers, refurbishers, recyclers, logistics partners, leasing firms, reverse logistics vendors, repair providers, and other lifecycle partners
Millions of jobs, with real people getting hired every day
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Define vendor selection criteria, due diligence requirements, contractual controls, service-level expectations, audit rights, reporting standards, and escalation paths in partnership with Procurement, Legal, Security, and Compliance
Lead ongoing business reviews with strategic vendors covering reuse rates, refurbishment yields, resale recovery, on-time collections, chain-of-custody quality, data destruction assurance, downstream transparency, environmental performance, worker protections, and regulatory compliance
Monitor vendor certifications, permits, subcontractor controls, insurance, geographic coverage, and evidence of compliance with applicable recycling, transport, and waste-handling obligations
Evaluate market capabilities and emerging partner models to improve circular outcomes, cost efficiency, risk management, and reporting maturity
Establish and maintain a structured monitoring process for global asset, e-waste, waste shipment, recycling, right-to-repair, battery, producer responsibility, and related environmental regulations affecting IT asset lifecycle activities
Translate regulatory developments into actionable requirements for internal policies, standard operating procedures, approved vendor controls, training content, and contracting language
Partner with Legal, Compliance, Trade, Privacy, and Security teams to assess regulatory impacts on cross-border returns, asset transfers, storage, remarketing, recycling, and destruction practices
Maintain a regulatory obligations register and control framework covering jurisdiction-specific requirements, renewal deadlines, reporting obligations, permit dependencies, and evidence-retention expectations
Support internal audits, customer inquiries, and external assurance activities by ensuring complete documentation of material asset flows, treatment outcomes, and compliance controls
Define and manage enterprise standards for e-waste minimization, responsible recycling, reuse prioritization, landfill avoidance, and downstream due diligence
Ensure approved disposition pathways align with environmental, health and safety, data protection, and social responsibility expectations
Oversee reporting and exception management for non-compliant disposal events, unaccounted assets, failed chain-of-custody controls, and material incidents involving vendors or downstream processors
Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase diversion from disposal, improve component recovery, and reduce environmental impacts associated with refresh and retirement decisions
Define and govern the KPI framework for circular IT performance, including service life, refresh interval optimization, redeployment rate, repair rate, refurbishment yield, resale value recovery, e-waste intensity, landfill diversion, and asset traceability
Ensure ITAM, CMDB, procurement, ticketing, and vendor reporting data are reconciled and fit for management reporting, audit readiness, and sustainability disclosure needs
Develop executive dashboards and regular operating reviews for senior leaders across IT, sustainability, procurement, and finance
Provide robust data inputs to ESG, Scope 3, and enterprise sustainability reporting processes, including evidence needed for assurance
Build and maintain business cases for lifecycle extension, circular sourcing, redeployment programs, take-back models, residual value capture, and vendor optimization
Quantify cost avoidance, working capital benefits, recovered value, avoided purchases, waste reduction, and lifecycle emissions impacts
Partner with Finance and Procurement to embed circular considerations into refresh planning, total cost of ownership analysis, and sourcing decisions
Serve as the global subject matter expert for circular IT asset lifecycle management across enterprise technology functions
Develop standards, playbooks, training, and communications for regional IT teams, procurement professionals, service owners, and vendor managers
Influence senior stakeholders in a matrixed environment and drive adoption of new controls, policies, and performance expectations without direct authority over all executing teams
Support executive briefings and governance forums with concise insights, risk updates, and recommendations
Requirements
8+ years of experience in IT asset management, end-user computing, infrastructure operations, sourcing, supply chain, sustainability, or a closely related field
Demonstrated leadership in designing or scaling enterprise lifecycle management programs in complex, multinational environments
Experience managing or governing external vendors in areas such as ITAD, refurbishment, reverse logistics, maintenance, leasing, or electronics recycling
Strong working knowledge of IT asset controls, chain of custody, data destruction requirements, and end-of-life operating models
Experience translating regulatory, audit, or policy requirements into operational processes and vendor controls
Experience partnering across IT, procurement, finance, legal, security, and sustainability functions
Deep expertise in circular economy practices as applied to enterprise IT hardware and related operational processes
