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Global Head of Sustainable Products & Packaging -Circularity & Value Chain Transformation
Anthesis GroupUKRemotefull_timeVerifiedPosted 19 Feb 2026
About the role
Global Head of Sustainable Products & Packaging -Circularity & Value Chain Transformation
Department: Circ. & Value Chain Trans. : Advisory
Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time
Location: Flexible
Description
Lead one of the defining transitions of the decade.
We're looking for a leader who understands where circular systems are heading and wants the platform to shape what comes next.
This isn't a role focused on producing strategies alone. You'll help clients design pilots, prove commercial value, build infrastructure, unlock investment and scale solutions that work.
You'll set the direction for a global practice, grow a significant business, and help some of the world's leading organisations turn circularity into a value system.
Anthesis is a platform to multiply your impact.
We're looking for a builder. Someone who's spent years deep in sustainable products and packaging — EPR, PPWR, eco-design, chemistry, reuse and refill — and is ready to build a global practice around it.
We're looking for a leader who understands where circular systems are heading and wants the platform to shape what comes next.
This isn't a role focused on producing strategies alone. You'll help clients design pilots, prove commercial value, build infrastructure, unlock investment and scale solutions that work.
You'll set the direction for a global practice, grow a significant business, and help some of the world's leading organisations turn circularity into a value system.
Anthesis is a platform to multiply your impact.
We're looking for a builder. Someone who's spent years deep in sustainable products and packaging — EPR, PPWR, eco-design, chemistry, reuse and refill — and is ready to build a global practice around it.
You'll inherit a strong client portfolio, an experienced technical team, and a market moving faster than most firms can keep up with. Your job is to set the vision, grow the business, and make Anthesis the leader in this space.
If you're the kind of person who reads a new regulation — or a shift in trade flows, raw-material costs, or consumer behavior — and immediately sees the commercial opportunity inside it; who can build the strategy, marshal the team to model the ROI, and help a client pilot and scale it, not just hand them a deck — keep reading.
Why This Role Exists
Why This Role Exists
Sustainable products and packaging is one of the fastest-moving areas in the circular economy. EPR regimes are expanding and fragmenting across jurisdictions. Digital Product Passports are coming. Green claims rules are tightening. Brands are under pressure to rethink everything from design to end-of-life — faster than most can track on their own. But the real opportunity isn't compliance. It's for the early movers who innovate ahead of the rules and turn that into lasting competitive advantage.
Our clients — global brands across consumer goods, retail, tech, beauty, food and beverage, pharma, and fashion — need different things at different moments. Sometimes a clear strategy; sometimes a partner who'll go all the way through to execution. We meet them where they are at and increasingly combining deep sustainability expertise with AI, digital tools, and emerging technology to deliver faster and better.
We've built strong foundations. Now we need the leader to take it further — someone who pairs real technical credibility with commercial instinct, a builder's mentality, and the drive to turn that into lasting value for clients.
Key Responsibilities
This role spans several dimensions. You'll be stronger in some than others, but you should have the appetite and the capability to lead across all of them:
- Set the vision, own the strategy. Craft a compelling, forward-looking vision for where this portfolio goes next — grounded in client need, market reality, and Anthesis's ambition to 2030 and beyond. Define what winning looks like: which solutions to accelerate, which to incubate, which to sunset — and rally the organisation behind it. Translate that into a multi-year growth plan with clear milestones, investment priorities, and measurable outcomes.
- Know the landscape cold. Maintain a deep, continuously updated read on regulatory and market shifts across jurisdictions — EPR evolution, DPP timelines, green claims enforcement, chemical and packaging mandates. Translate that complexity into clear strategic options, bring in the right teams to quantify the impact, and lay out the path forward — whether that's meeting what's required or getting ahead of it for advantage.
- Know our client's world. Build a deep, ongoing understanding of what your clients are facing — competitive dynamics, supply chain complexity, cost pressures — and the commercial opportunities that sit inside that complexity. Be the partner who sees what's coming and helps them get ahead of it. Position Anthesis as more than an advisor: the partner that truly understands the client's business and helps them win.
- Go beyond decks — build, test, scale. We don't toss strategies over the wall and hope they land. We get into the trenches with clients and go the full distance — helping them innovate, test, learn, and then actually do it: pilot new approaches, prove the economics, operationalize what works, and scale it. [reuse systems, reformulated products, new packaging
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