Circular Systems Growth Portfolio Lead

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 has spent their career in the engine room of the circular economy — working on waste systems, material loops, resource recovery, the criticality/circularity nexus, food waste reduction and valorization, reverse supply chains, urban mining, critical minerals, secondary material markets, circular business models and infrastructure — and is ready to build a global practice around it. 

You'll take ownership of a portfolio that already has real scale, real clients, and a market that's accelerating. Your job is to set the direction, grow the business, and make Anthesis the firm that defines what's next in circular systems — not just advising, but designing pilots, deploying cutting-edge technologies, proving the economics and the investment case, and helping clients scale what works. 

If you're the kind of person who looks at a broken material flow and sees untapped value — who gets excited by critical minerals recovery, robotic disassembly, and AI-powered sorting — and then actually builds the pilot, proves the ROI, and scales it — keep reading.

Why This Role Exists  

Circular systems are undergoing a structural shift. The focus is moving beyond waste diversion as a sustainability goal, toward critical minerals recovery, reverse supply chains, secondary material markets, and value optimisation — driven by geopolitical risk, policy acceleration, and corporate demand for resilient supply. Recovery technologies are moving from pilot to deployment and circularity is becoming a cornerstone of smart industrial strategy. 

Our clients — across consumer goods, manufacturing, built environment, food, retail, tech, and public sector — are trying to navigate this shift. Some need deep technical guidance, some need strategy, and others need execution. Increasingly, they need all three. 

We’ve built strong foundations. Now we need a leader to scale this into a defining global practice — someone who understands circular systems and the full reverse value chain and can translate that into commercial growth and client impact.