Circular IT Specialist
Function: IT Sustainability Centre of Excellence
Reports to: Head of Global IT Sustainability (with robust matrix alignment to Global IT Operations, Procurement, Supply Chain, Security, Legal and Compliance)Location: India/Canada/US
Role Summary
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.
Core Mandate

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, pol

📌 Circular IT Specialist (Bengaluru)
🏢 NTT DATA Services
📍 Bengaluru