Director, Circularity

Tarkett is looking for a Director, Circularity to join our talented team. Tarkett has been designing flooring for material recovery and reinvesting recycled content back into our products for decades. The Director, Circularity carries that commitment forward, turning it into a strategy for material innovation, regulatory readiness, and customer trust, not just landfill diversion. This role owns four connected priorities:
1) advancing the strategy behind Tarkett’s ReStart® take-back and recycling program to align with today’s market and regulatory realities;
2) own and develop the relationships that support end-of-life recycling to be effective technically and economically;
3) monitoring and advising appropriate preparation and responses to Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulations reshaping how flooring producers operate across North America; and
4) enabling post-use recycled content across product lines. The role is also a key Tarkett voice on circularity in front of customers — translating technical work into credible, sales-enabling presentations for architects, designers, specifiers, end-users, and internal sales teams. This is an influence and execution-oriented leadership role. It requires someone who moves fluidly between regulatory detail, materials and supply chain strategy, and external stakeholder presentation;

and who treats end-of-life utility as a design and business input, not a marketing topic.

• Lead the strategic advancement of Tarkett’s ReStart take-back and recycling program, updating its scope, logistics model, economics, and end-market outlets to reflect current market and regulatory conditions.
• Recommend and implement change in the program model and build the operational and financial case for reclamation capacity, including potential partnership or investment where needed.
• Establish and track program performance metrics: total collected by product type, volume diverted from landfill, cost details, recycling pathway, and other measurements as needed.
• Conduct a thorough feasibility and viability analysis of various recycling pathways.
• Own the customer- and field-facing mechanics of ReStart, ensuring sales and operations teams can leverage and execute the program consistently.
• Direct the overall execution of ReStart, from the management of reverse logistics to the end use of materials.

• Identify and manage strategic relationships with recyclers, reclaimers, and materials-recovery partners to expand viable end-of-life pathways across Tarkett’s product categories.
• Work with R&D and product design to address technical barriers to closed-loop recycling, such as material separability at end of life.
• Represent Tarkett in industry coalitions, producer-responsibility organizations, and multi-stakeholder circularity initiatives shaping emerging collection and recycling infrastructure.

• Own Tarkett North America’s monitoring of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) and related producer-responsibility legislation affecting flooring products across U.S. states and Canadian provinces.
• Translate regulatory requirements — registration, reporting, recycled-content mandates, collection-program obligations — into operational compliance plans, in partnership with Legal and Regulatory Affairs partners.
• Serve as Tarkett’s primary point of contact with Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs) and represent the company in regulatory comment periods and trade-association working groups.
• Maintain a regulatory risk register and brief leadership regularly on upcoming compliance deadlines and legislative developments, given how frequently these timelines shift.