Circular IT Specialist

Circular IT Specialist

We are currently seeking a Circular IT Specialist to join our team in Plano, Texas (US-TX), United States (US).

Function: IT Sustainability Centre of Excellence

Reports to: Head of Global IT Sustainability (with strong matrix alignment to Global IT Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Security, Legal and Compliance)

Location: India/Canada/US

The Circular IT Specialist 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 planning, sourcing, deployment, support, redeployment, recovery, and end-of-life disposition.

This role supports a large, multinational IT environment with distributed operations, regional regulatory complexity, and a broad supplier ecosystem. The Lead partners across IT Operations, IT Asset Management (ITAM), Procurement, Supply Chain, Finance, Information Security, Privacy, Legal, Internal Audit, and Sustainability to increase asset longevity, reduce virgin material demand, improve recovery value, strengthen chain-of-custody controls, and ensure compliant management of e-waste and cross-border asset flows.

The role also serves as the enterprise subject matter lead for circular IT governance, vendor performance, and global regulatory monitoring related to asset disposition, environmental compliance, and producer responsibility obligations.

• 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 “circular by default” decision-making, including repair before replace, redeploy before buy new, and refurbish/resell before recycle where risk, cost, and performance requirements allow.

• 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.

• Define vendor selection criteria, due diligence requirements, contractual controls, service-level…