Procurement Director - IT Asset Recovery and Sourcing
About the Company
Our client is a fast-growing organization operating within the circular economy and technology asset lifecycle management sector. The business specializes in the acquisition, evaluation, refurbishment, and redistribution of enterprise IT infrastructure assets across Asia, helping organizations maximize value from retired technology equipment while adhering to stringent security and compliance standards.
The Opportunity
We are seeking an experienced Procurement Director - IT Asset Recovery & Sourcing to lead strategic sourcing and procurement activities for decommissioned enterprise IT infrastructure assets across China and Asia.
This is a high-impact leadership role requiring deep expertise in secondary-market technology hardware, including servers, storage systems, networking equipment, memory components, processors, and related enterprise infrastructure products. The successful candidate will possess strong commercial acumen, market intelligence capabilities, and an extensive network across data centers, enterprise organizations, asset disposition providers, and technology supply channels.
Job Responsibilities
- Develop and execute procurement strategies for retired and decommissioned enterprise IT assets across Asia.
- Identify, evaluate, and secure procurement opportunities from data centers, cloud service providers, enterprises, financial institutions, telecommunications companies, and large corporate organizations.
- Assess residual value and remarketing potential of retired server, storage, and network infrastructure assets.
- Monitor market trends, pricing movements, inventory availability, and supply-demand dynamics across secondary technology hardware markets.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with enterprise asset owners, technology lifecycle management providers, and strategic sourcing partners.
- Lead negotiations for large-scale buyback programs, asset acquisition agreements, and bulk procurement transactions.
- Perform commercial due diligence and profitability analysis on acquisition opportunities.
- Collaborate closely with sales, trading, operations, and technical teams to optimize asset recovery value and inventory turnover.
- Establish procurement governance, vendor management processes, and risk mitigation frameworks.
- Support expansion into new sourcing channels and regional markets across Greater China and Asia-Pacific.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Procurement, Business, Engineering or a related discipline.
- 10+ years of procurement, sourcing, trading, asset recovery, IT asset disposition, reverse logistics, or secondary-market technology experience.
- Proven experience sourcing enterprise IT hardware, including servers, storage equipment, networking devices, memory modules, processors, and related infrastructure products.
- Strong understanding of residual value assessment, asset grading, lifecycle economics, and hardware remarketing principles.
- Demonstrated success negotiating large-scale buyback, decommissioning, liquidation, or asset acquisition programs with enterprise clients and data centre operators.
- Deep knowledge of secondary-market pricing mechanisms, inventory valuation, and regional market dynamics across China and Asia.
- Familiarity with data destruction, information security, asset tracking, and regulatory compliance requirements associated with retired IT equipment.
- Strong commercial negotiation, contract management, and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Experience managing cross-border sourcing activities and complex supply chains within Asia.
- Fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese is a must, HK base for regional markets.
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