This senior program role will shape how Oracle manages hardware across its cloud infrastructure, from design and procurement through deployment, reuse, and end of life. Its central focus is making circular practices work at enterprise scale, with measurable plans for extending equipment life and recovering materials.
For a cloud business, servers and other equipment carry environmental impacts before they reach a data center and after they are retired. Better reuse, repair, refurbishment, and material recovery can reduce waste and the embodied emissions linked to hardware, while connecting operational decisions to Oracle’s wider sustainability goals and reporting needs.
This suits someone who can pair deep knowledge of IT hardware lifecycles with strong program leadership, build credible business cases from data, and bring engineering, operations, procurement, and suppliers together around practical changes.
Job FAQs
What are the main missions and responsibilities of this role?
The role would lead Oracle’s waste and circularity strategy, with ownership of company-wide measures such as diversion, hardware reuse, material recovery, and downstream traceability. A core operational focus is OCI’s hardware take-back and reverse logistics, directing retired equipment toward redeployment, refurbishment, or responsible recycling.
It would also work with engineering and procurement on repairability, disassembly, materials, and longer hardware lifecycles, while building business cases and translating plans into measurable programs. Reporting data must be accurate enough to inform decisions and support frameworks such as CSRD/ESRS and GRI.
Key learning opportunities for this job
The position could deepen expertise in data center hardware lifecycles, reverse logistics, IT asset disposition, electronics recycling, and circular product design. Work with engineering and supply chain teams may provide practical insight into how material and design choices affect repair, reuse, and embodied emissions.
The role also offers exposure to enterprise sustainability metrics and reporting, including data quality and auditability for frameworks such as CSRD/ESRS and GRI. Supplier collaboration and business-case development could build further skills in circular procurement and cross-functional program leadership.
How does the ideal candidate look like (experience, skills)?
The posting calls for a bachelor’s degree in sustainability, environmental science, engineering, supply chain, or a related field, plus at least 10 years of relevant experience. Candidates should bring demonstrated experience with circular economy or waste programs in technology, as well as hardware take-back, reverse logistics, IT asset disposition, or lifecycle management.
Useful strengths include understanding reuse, refurbishment, material recovery, sustainable hardware design, and relevant reporting or stewardship standards. Experience with lifecycle assessment, product carbon footprints, supplier engagement, and sustainability data platforms would also be relevant. The work calls for clear communication, analytical judgment, and influence across teams without direct authority.
Advice to stand out and make a successful application
Use examples that connect a hardware circularity initiative to both environmental results and operational or financial outcomes. Quantify changes in reuse, recovery, diversion, equipment life, or data quality where possible, and explain your role in achieving them.
Show how you have worked across engineering, data center operations, procurement, and logistics, especially when teams had competing priorities. If relevant, name experience with take-back programs, IT asset disposition, repairability, lifecycle assessments, CSRD/ESRS, GRI, R2, or e-Stewards, while distinguishing direct experience from familiarity.
What aspects of the company's sustainability is this role likely to focus on?
The role is likely to focus on reducing hardware waste and embodied emissions through longer equipment lifecycles, repair, refurbishment, redeployment, and responsible material recovery. Sustainable design and procurement are also central, including disassembly, repairability, recycled content, and material selection.
Because the position owns circularity metrics and traceability, it also connects operations to sustainability reporting and decision-making. Its scope spans OCI hardware as well as broader company waste and resource management programs.
What are the main challenges someone in this role might face?
A likely challenge is coordinating circularity across a large, matrixed operation where hardware decisions involve engineering, data centers, procurement, supply chain, and external logistics partners. Reuse and repair pathways must fit operational requirements while delivering measurable environmental and business value.
Another challenge is producing reliable, auditable data across varied processes and locations. Establishing consistent definitions and traceability for diversion, reuse, and recovery may require changes to existing workflows and sustained supplier engagement.
How could a typical day look like for someone in this position?
A typical day could combine reviewing waste and hardware lifecycle data with meetings involving data center operations, engineering, procurement, supply chain, or reverse logistics partners. The role may assess take-back results, identify where retired equipment can be repaired or redeployed, and resolve process barriers.
Other work could include refining circularity targets, preparing a business case for a hardware or materials initiative, checking reporting data, and discussing design or supplier options. The balance would likely shift between program planning, operational problem-solving, and senior stakeholder updates.
What are the opportunities for professional growth and development in this role?
The role could build a broad profile at the intersection of corporate sustainability, cloud infrastructure, hardware lifecycle management, and supply chain. Leading programs across Oracle’s operations may deepen experience in setting measurable strategy and coordinating complex global initiatives.
Further development could come through work on lifecycle assessment, sustainable design, circular procurement, and evolving reporting standards. The senior scope may also support progression into wider sustainability program leadership or related supply chain and operations strategy roles, depending on organizational needs.
The main stakeholders you might be interacting with
Internal partners are likely to include Oracle’s Global Sustainability Office, OCI data center operations, hardware engineering and product design, supply chain, procurement, and logistics teams. Senior business stakeholders may be involved in reviewing roadmaps, performance measures, and investment cases.
External interactions could include suppliers, reverse logistics providers, electronics recyclers, and industry organizations. These relationships would support take-back, reuse, material recovery, supplier practices, and assessment of relevant standards.
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