Compliance & Sustainability Intelligence Manager (Emerging Programs)

About the company

Founded in 2017, rePurpose Global is the leading Packaging Sustainability & Compliance platform for consumer companies. We enable brands to measure their plastic footprint, recover plastic waste from nature through a global partner network, and streamline compliance across 45+ packaging regulations — all from one platform.

rePurpose has recovered over 100 million pounds of plastic waste, supported 2,300+ waste workers, and maintains 12 active impact projects worldwide. Our platform helps brands achieve compliance outcomes through advanced data management and regulatory expertise.

Headquartered in New York. Learn more at repurpose.global.

Additional Information: This role is remote, but if you live in New York City, our NYC head office is at 1460 Broadway, with 3 days/week in the office. We have a truly global team - with members across the USA, India, Sri Lanka, and Portugal.  Research shows that women and underrepresented groups often apply to roles only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. We encourage you to break that statistic. If you're passionate about this role and our mission, even if you don't meet every qualification, we look forward to receiving your application rePurpose Global is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristic. We aim to reflect the global industries, brands, and markets we help navigate packaging compliance — and we welcome, support, and empower all the diverse individuals building the infrastructure for packaging compliance and a more sustainable global economy.

About the Role

rePurpose Global helps consumer brands meet their Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) obligations for packaging across a fast-growing set of U.S. and Canadian jurisdictions. Canada's EPR landscape spans multiple provincial programs — each with its own Producer Responsibility Organizations (PROs), material lists, reporting rules, and deadlines — alongside a national harmonization effort and federal reporting requirements still taking shape, and the pace of change is only accelerating. Producers count on us to help them navigate this complexity with confidence, which relies on experts who grasp dense regulatory text and turn it into simple, actionable direction.

As a Compliance & Sustainability Intelligence Manager, you'll own the outward-facing side of that work: tracking regulatory change as it happens, educating customers and prospects, and translating dense statutory and program requirements into guidance producers can act on with confidence. This position carries a Canada-first workload — provincial regulation, the harmonization wave, PRO relationships, and federal reporting. It's a highly visible role — you'll be one of the main faces of rePurpose Global's regulatory and compliance expertise to the market.

A defining part of the job is our webinar program, which you'll own end to end: shaping the topic and narrative, building the content, presenting live to audiences of producers, and fielding the technical and regulatory questions that follow. Between webinars, you'll answer the steady stream of customer and prospect questions that come with a shifting regulatory environment, produce written regulatory intelligence and market education, and equip our sales and customer teams with the talking points and materials they need. It's a builder's role, too — much of this regulatory landscape is still taking shape, so you'll create structure where little exists yet, maintain relationships with PROs and other external stakeholders, and feed what you learn back into the product and roadmap alongside our technical, product, and customer success teams.

Key Responsibilities

Track Canadian regulatory change and turn it into intelligence. Monitor provincial programs, PRO program plans and material lists, the harmonization effort, and federal reporting as it takes shape — and distill what's changing into guidance the team and customers can use.

Be a trusted first point of contact for regulatory questions. Field customer and prospect questions on EPR obligations, fees, reporting categories, exemptions, and deadlines with empathy and clarity, converting dense rules into plain-language, service-oriented guidance that builds producer confidence and establishes audit-ready documentation.

Own the webinar & thought leadership program. Plan the calendar and topics, build the content and narrative, host live sessions for producer audiences, and lead the follow-up Q&A — treating webinars as a core, recurring pillar of our market education and audience growth.

Create education and enablement content. Write regulatory briefs, policy gap assessments, regulatory updates, blog posts, FAQs, explainers, and one-pagers, and build the talking points and materials that equip the sales, marketing, and customer success teams to speak accurately and authoritatively about EPR.

Anticipate what's next. Read where regulation and the market are heading, and translate it into foresight the team can plan around.

Carry the market presence. Represent rePurpose Global in public-facing settings — producer education, industry engagement, and the consultations, working sessions, and coalition meetings that make up regulatory listening — and stay close to how regulators, PROs, and producers are interpreting the rules.

Close the loop with the technical and product teams. Flag regulatory changes that affect packaging classification, fees, or reporting so they can be reflected in our compliance software and product roadmap, and bring recurring customer questions back as input that shapes the platform experience.

Requirements

A relevant foundation. A background in EPR, packaging or environmental policy, sustainability, regulatory affairs, or a related field — built in industry, at a PRO or consultancy, or through study in environmental science, public policy, law, or packaging.

Deep EPR / packaging-policy expertise. Experience in plastics and packaging policy, circular economy, waste management, or Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), with a working command of how these programs actually operate — governance, financing, PRO structures, and enforcement.

Regulatory fluency and range. Ability to independently read, interpret, and track statutory and program text across multiple jurisdictions, and to hold the differences between them accurately rather than generalizing, with the range to run scenario modeling that shows producers how differing rules affect their portfolios.

Exceptional communication and presentation skills. Genuine comfort speaking publicly and hosting webinars and live Q&A, plus strong writing for a non-expert audience — you can make a complex rule feel simple without losing what matters.

A builder's instinct. Comfort creating programs, content, and structure in areas that are new or still taking shape, without waiting for a template to exist.

Customer- and stakeholder-facing polish. Confidence engaging producers, prospects, PROs, regulators, and industry groups, and the judgment both to know how much detail each audience needs and to manage those relationships over time.

Comfort with ambiguity and pace. The ability to stay organized and credible in a fast-moving regulatory environment where guidance is often incomplete, and deadlines compress.

Self-direction. A track record of owning a domain end-to-end with minimal oversight in a remote, cross-functional team.

Nice to Have

These are a plus, not a requirement — we welcome strong candidates who bring the core profile above.

Canadian regulatory grounding. Familiarity with provincial EPR programs, the harmonization effort, PROs, and the federal reporting landscape (including the Federal Plastics Registry).

Broader regulatory exposure. Experience with the EU Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation (PPWR) or adjacent environmental and packaging regulation.

Packaging EPR & eco-modulation frameworks. Direct exposure to eco-modulation fee models, design-for-recyclability (D4R) guidelines, or rulemaking comment periods.

Content and programming. A history of creating content or educational programming for a technical or regulatory audience.

International background or languages. An international background, or a second language in French or another European language.

Brand-side or industry engagement. Time in-house at a brand or producer, or participation in advisory committees, working groups, or industry coalitions.