Senior Manager, Global EPR Compliance (Circularity)

Location: Greensboro, NC, United States

Company

hirify.global owns the Wrangler, Lee, and Helly Hansen lifestyle, outdoor, and workwear brands and operates through a global platform, strategic sourcing model, and supply chain.

What you will do

• Own the end-to-end global EPR compliance process, including applicability assessments, obligation mapping, registrations, reporting preparation, submissions, and post-filing documentation.
• Build and maintain the global EPR roadmap, obligation tracker, compliance calendar, governance meetings, issue logs, risk reviews, and action plans for packaging, paper, plastics, textiles, and related product stewardship requirements.
• Monitor regulations and guidance, assess business impact, and translate requirements into actions, timelines, data needs, policies, SOPs, training materials, and record-retention practices.
• Coordinate data collection from ERP and reporting systems; improve automation through data pipelines, dashboards, controls, standardized templates, and data-quality checks.
• Manage relationships with Producer Responsibility Organizations, consultants, legal advisors, industry groups, and other stakeholders, including deliverables, negotiations, knowledge transfer, and audit or regulator responses.
• Partner with Sustainability, Legal, Finance, Tax, Supply Chain, Packaging, Product Development, Sourcing, IT, analytics, regional teams, and brand leaders to forecast fees, reduce EPR exposure, and guide recyclable materials, reusable packaging, and circularity initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, business, supply chain, law, public policy, engineering, packaging, textiles, or a related field; equivalent experience is considered.
• 7+ years of experience in regulatory compliance, environmental compliance, product stewardship, sustainability reporting, packaging compliance, EPR, circular economy programs, or related fields.
• Experience managing complex cross-functional programs involving multiple stakeholders, deadlines, and data sources.
• Strong analytical skills, including experience with Excel and business intelligence or data reporting tools, and the ability to translate data into compliance deliverables and management insights.
• Experience managing external consultants, advisors, legal partners, or third-party service providers.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to influence across functions, geographies, and leadership levels.

Nice to have

• Experience with packaging EPR, textile EPR, PPWR, plastic packaging taxes, product stewardship, PRO reporting, or related global circular economy regulations.
• Experience in apparel, footwear, retail, consumer goods, manufacturing, packaging, logistics, or global branded products.
• Familiarity with ERP, PLM, Power BI, sustainability reporting platforms, or compliance management systems.
• Knowledge of packaging materials, textile and fiber composition, recyclability, eco-modulation, recycled content, and circular design principles.
• Experience building SOPs, compliance calendars, audit-ready evidence files, control frameworks, or governance processes.
• Advanced degree, legal or regulatory training, project management certification, or sustainability credential.

Culture & Benefits

• Global workforce with an emphasis on equitable opportunities, belonging, collaboration, integrity, accountability, and customer-centered innovation.
• Comprehensive benefits supporting physical, emotional, social, and financial well-being.
• Apparel discounts, four weeks of paid parental leave for eligible new parents, Flexible Fridays, and tuition reimbursement.
• Leadership expectations include global agility, strategic foresight, urgency for impact, and empowered collaboration.