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The team translates evolving environmental regulations into practical requirements, manages registrations and producer responsibility organization relationships, oversees data and reporting controls, coordinates fee and invoice governance, and supports compliant market access for HP hardware, printing supplies, batteries, and packaging.\nWe are seeking a Global Take Back Compliance Senior Manager to lead HP’s worldwide take-back compliance organization and ensure that Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) regulatory obligations are implemented accurately, consistently, and efficiently across regions. The role combines people leadership, regulatory program management, data and financial governance, operational risk management, and cross-functional influence.\nThe manager will set the global compliance strategy, develop a resilient and high-performing team, and maintain an effective control environment covering regulatory interpretation, registrations, declarations, audits, fees, contracts, purchase orders, and invoices. The successful candidate will partner with Legal, Government Affairs, Finance, Tax, Supply Chain, Sustainability, business units, market teams, data owners, and external compliance schemes to protect market access and manage cost and reputational risk. The role requires equal comfort with strategic direction, detailed operational execution, complex escalations, and executive communication.\nResponsibilities\nLead, coach, and develop a geographically dispersed team responsible for global take-back compliance reporting and operational execution.\nDefine the global compliance strategy, operating model, priorities, controls, performance indicators (KPIs), and continuous-improvement roadmap.\nMonitor regulatory developments and translate new or changing extended producer responsibility requirements into clear business, system, data, and process actions.\nEnsure timely and accurate registrations, declarations, reports, payments, and evidence for hardware, printing supplies, batteries, packaging, and other in-scope product categories.\nMaintain strong governance over compliance data, including source ownership, validation, reconciliation, issue resolution, documentation, and audit trails.\nOwn readiness for regulatory, producer responsibility organization, and internal audits; lead root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and sustainable remediation of findings.\nOversee compliance-related financial processes, including forecasting, visible or eco-fees, scheme charges, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, accruals, and cost optimization.\nPartner with Legal, Government Affairs, Finance, Tax, Sustainability, Supply Chain, IT, regional teams, and business units to align accountabilities and secure timely decisions.\nRepresent Take Back Compliance with senior stakeholders and external partners, communicating complex risks, options, and recommendations in concise business terms.\nLead critical escalations and incidents calmly, protecting compliance, market access, business continuity, and HP’s reputation.\nDrive process standardization, AI and automation, digital enablement, and continuous improvement initiatives that reduce waste, improve cycle time, and scale global execution.\nBuild organizational resilience through succession planning, documented procedures, cross-training, and effective management of internal and external resources.\nSkills\nGlobal people leadership experience with the ability to lead, develop, and inspire distributed teams across regions, cultures, and functions.\nStrong knowledge of environmental compliance and extended producer responsibility frameworks; experience with electronics, batteries, packaging, or printing supplies is highly valued.\nDemonstrated ability to manage complex global programs, regulatory deadlines, audits, competing priorities, and high-impact escalations.\nStrong analytical and control mindset, with experience governing large data sets, reconciliations, reporting accuracy, evidence, and corrective actions.\nFinancial and commercial acumen, including budgeting, forecasting, fee management, contracts, purchase orders, invoices, and supplier governance.\nExecutive communication skills with the ability to translate complex data into concise insights, decisions, risks, and recommendations for senior stakeholders.\nProven ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders, manage external partners, resolve operational escalations, and align teams around measurable outcomes.\nContinuous improvement and digital transformation mindset, including experience with process excellence, analytics, automation, governance, and scalable operating models.\nJob -\nSupply Chain & OperationsSchedule -\nFull timeShift -\nNo shift premium (Romania)Travel -\n25%Relocation -\nNoEqual Opportunity Employer (EEO)-\nHP, Inc. provides equal employment opportunity to all employees and prospective employees, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, sexual orientation, age, disability, or status as a protected veteran, marital status, familial status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic predisposition or carrier status, uniformed service status, political affiliation or any other characteristic protected by applicable national, federal, state, and local law(s).\nPlease be assured that you will not be subject to any adverse treatment if you choose to disclose the information requested. This information is provided voluntarily. 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