Founded in 2017, rePurpose Global is the leading Packaging Sustainability & Compliance platform for consumer companies. We enable brands to measure their plastic footprint, recover plastic waste from nature through a global partner network, and streamline compliance across 45+ packaging regulations — all from one platform.
rePurpose has recovered over 100 million pounds of plastic waste, supported 2,300+ waste workers, and maintains 12 active impact projects worldwide. Our platform helps brands achieve compliance outcomes through advanced data management and regulatory expertise.
Headquartered in New York. Learn more at repurpose.global.
About the Role
This is a builder-operator role for a disciplined leader who can navigate complex projects, mentor teams with maturity, and engineer scalable systems that define the future of the circular economy. You will oversee an international project portfolio, manage a high-performing team of 4-5 people, and drive strategic impact assurance. We are looking for a candidate with a proven track record of measurable outcomes—whether through ecosystem development, capital deployment, or strengthening partner networks. You should be motivated by tangible change and possess the technical judgment and commercial acumen to deliver it. We are looking for someone who combines high ethics, strong technical judgment, commercial acumen, and an entrepreneurial mindset.
What You'll Own
- Lead a global impact portfolio with strong assurance and delivery discipline: Own the end-to-end execution and quality assurance of our global plastic recovery, recycling, and waste management projects
- Direct multiple workstreams across geographies, ensuring peak partner performance, rigorous risk management, and timely delivery.
- Has a demonstrated record of project management leadership to deliver multiple projects and handle multiple stakeholders at once
- Oversee rigorous project reviews, field verifications, and corrective action plans to maintain high implementation standards.
- Develop scalable SOPs and dashboards to streamline operations and reduce friction in portfolio management.
- Ensure all impact claims are credible, ethical, and defensible through robust documentation and real-world evidence.
- Build scalable SOPs, dashboards, controls, review systems, and portfolio rhythms that improve quality and reduce operational drag.
- Lead, coach, and grow a high-performing team:
- Cultivate a transparent, ambitious, and high-performing team culture focused on operational excellence.
- Establish clear priorities, accountability rhythms, and performance benchmarks for direct reports.
- Mentor and coach team members, empowering them to take ownership while maintaining high quality standards.
- Navigate complex interpersonal dynamics and partner escalations with poise and professional maturity.
- Build a team culture that is ambitious, transparent, ethical, empathetic, and high-performing
- Build new products, solutions, and operating models for the circular economy: Beyond management, you will identify market gaps and build the next generation of circularity solutions
- Conceptualize and launch new project formats and traceability products that address evolving industry needs.
- Collaborate across departments (BD, Product, Tech) to design commercially viable and ethically sound impact offerings.
- Identify opportunities to monetize new capabilities and optimize unit economics for sustainable growth.
- Bring a strong point of view on where waste management, recycling, traceability, responsible sourcing, and circular economy solutions are heading
- Strengthen partnerships, client engagement, and business growth: Act as a leader and ambassador for rePurpose with global partners, clients, and external stakeholders.
- Cultivate strategic relationships with recyclers, aggregators, and implementation partners globally.
- Drive business growth by contributing to high-stakes proposals, client narratives, and impact
financing discussions. - Contribute to business proposals, project design, budgets, client narratives, impact models, and
funding conversations. - Communicate complex technical and operational realities clearly to clients, internal teams, and
external stakeholders
What We're Looking For
- 10-12+ years of experience in impact delivery, circular economy, waste management, recycling, sustainability operations, development-sector implementation, ESG, audit/assurance, supply chain, social enterprise, or allied sectors.
- Demonstrated experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects with on-ground implementation.
- Must have experience managing international projects and stakeholders.
- Proven people leadership experience, ideally managing managers, senior associates, field-facing teams, or partner-facing teams.
- Strong technical understanding of project controls, documentation, traceability, audits, assurance, monitoring, compliance, due diligence, or verification systems.
- Experience managing budgets, partner contracts, vendor performance, grants, funder relationships, impact financing, or deployment of capital in the development/social impact sector.
- Strong commercial judgment, including ability to write proposals, develop SOWs, shape project budgets, build business cases, or support revenue-generating solutions.
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including client-facing presentations and senior stakeholder engagement.
- High comfort with ambiguity, fast growth, travel, field realities, and imperfect data.
Strong pluses
- Experience in plastic waste management, recycling, EPR, PCR value chains, MRFs, informal waste systems, responsible sourcing, or environmental compliance.
- Experience building new sustainability products, circular economy solutions, traceability systems, assurance models, project financing models, or market-based impact programs.
- Exposure to global clients, auditors, certification bodies, development finance, philanthropic funding, or multinational project portfolios.
- Backgrounds from organizations such as PCX, CleanHub, Plastic for Change, or similar circular economy, plastic recovery, responsible sourcing, climate, or social impact organizations would be highly relevant.
- Experience leading projects that raised funding, deployed capital, built partner networks, or converted impact models into commercially viable offerings.
The Kind of Leader Who Will Thrive/ You may be a strong fit if you are
- Deeply motivated by impact and can show it through your CV, not just your interview answers.
- Business-minded but technically sound.
- Commercially sharp without compromising on ethics.
- Comfortable moving between field operations, data reviews, client conversations, team coaching, and strategy.
- Strong at building systems, not just working within systems.
- Able to run steady operations while also creating new ideas, products, and processes.
- Confident, outward-facing, and engaging with clients, partners, and teams.
- High on ownership, transparency, empathy, and accountability.
- Low ego, high integrity, and ambitious for both impact and growth.
This Role May Not Be for You If
- You prefer narrow execution over broad ownership.
- You are motivated by sustainability as a theme but have limited evidence of real implementation.
- You are strong in reporting but weak in field realities, partner management, or operational problem-solving. You enjoy strategy but do not follow through on execution.
- You are uncomfortable with audits, documentation, data quality, risk management, or accountability systems.
- You struggle to lead people, give feedback, resolve conflict, or build trust.
What Success Looks Like
Why Join Us?
Impact-Driven Work: Help businesses reduce their environmental footprint and take action on the packaging waste crisis.
Collaborative Culture: Work alongside passionate experts dedicated to driving sustainable change.
Growth Opportunities: As we expand our platform, you'll play a key role in shaping our vision and strategy.
Benefits
This is an opportunity to join a highly successful global startup working at the intersection of climate, circular economy, waste systems, business, and social impact. You will work with a mission-driven team, international partners, ambitious clients, and real-world implementation systems that directly affect people and the planet. rePurpose offers a strong work culture, flexibility, meaningful benefits, competitive pay, generous leave, and the chance to build a career around credible, measurable impact.
Employee Benefits & Wellness Funds: Access medical coverage, accident coverage, a wellness fund, learning opportunities, and WeWork partnerships.
We offer a flexible salary range for this job posting that will be customized based on the qualifications of the chosen candidate. Our compensation strategy takes into account various factors, including education, experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, internal equity, and market alignment. We value the right fit over anything else!
Location Preference
We’re a truly global team, headquartered in New York City, with members across Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, London, Nairobi, Bangalore, Delhi, Mumbai, and Jakarta.
Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often apply to roles only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that statistic. If you're passionate about this role and our mission, even if you don't meet every qualification, we look forward to receiving your application
rePurpose Global is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We aim to reflect the global industries, brands, and markets we help navigate packaging compliance — and we welcome, support, and empower all the diverse individuals building the infrastructure for packaging compliance and a more sustainable global economy.
Skills Required
- 10–12+ years of experience in impact delivery, circular economy, waste management, recycling, sustainability operations, development-sector implementation, ESG, audit/assurance, supply chain, social enterprise, or related sectors
- Experience leading complex, multi-stakeholder projects with on-ground implementation
- Experience managing international projects and stakeholders
- People leadership experience, ideally managing managers, senior associates, field-facing teams, or partner-facing teams
- Strong technical understanding of project controls, documentation, traceability, audits, assurance, monitoring, compliance, due diligence, or verification systems
- Experience managing budgets, partner contracts, vendor performance, grants, funder relationships, impact financing, or capital deployment in the development or social-impact sector
- Strong commercial judgment, including proposal writing, SOW development, project budgeting, business-case development, or revenue-generating solutions
- Excellent written and verbal communication, including client-facing presentations and senior stakeholder engagement
- Comfort with ambiguity, fast growth, travel, field realities, and imperfect data
- Experience in plastic waste management, recycling, EPR, PCR value chains, MRFs, informal waste systems, responsible sourcing, or environmental compliance
- Experience building sustainability products, circular-economy solutions, traceability systems, assurance models, project-financing models, or market-based impact programs
- Exposure to global clients, auditors, certification bodies, development finance, philanthropic funding, or multinational project portfolios
- Experience leading projects that raised funding, deployed capital, built partner networks, or converted impact models into commercially viable offerings
What We Do
rePurpose Global is the world’s leading Plastic Action Platform, bringing together brands, consumers, innovators, and policymakers to collectively combat the plastic waste crisis. Through its pioneering solutions across the circular economy value chain, rePurpose has helped more than 300 companies measure, reduce, and take action on their plastic footprints, while driving systems change on a global scale. rePurpose Impact Projects have recovered over 15 million kilograms of plastic waste from the environment to date, protecting vulnerable coastal regions across the Americas, Africa, and Asia. In doing so, the organization has enabled the delivery of waste management services to millions of people for the first time, while positively impacting the lives of thousands of marginalized waste workers across the world. Founded in 2016, rePurpose Global now employs over 70 full-time team members across offices worldwide. For more information, please visit https://repurpose.global/. If you'd like to work with us, head on over to our Careers Page to look at the open positions and browse through their job descriptions: https://www.business.repurpose.global/careers
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