Jobs at Biffa

Manages daily transfer station operations, including health and safety, environmental and employment compliance, customer service, KPI performance, productivity, profitability, and continuous improvement. Supervises, coaches, and develops employees in a unionized environment, manages the P&L budget, coordinates cross-divisional waste solutions, and ensures adherence to company policies and legislation.

Identify and secure new business opportunities in the waste and resource management sector. Build relationships with prospective customers, manage the sales pipeline, lead opportunities from initial contact through contract award, and support growth targets. The remote-based role requires regular travel to customer sites and meetings.

Manage a portfolio of debtor accounts, proactively collect overdue payments, investigate and resolve payment issues, negotiate repayment plans, review credit limits, raise credit notes, support month-end reporting, and assist the Credit Manager. The role requires strong communication, negotiation, organization, Excel skills, accuracy, resilience, and a target-driven approach.

Supervise day-to-day operations across Somerset Recycling Centres, leading site teams, managing staffing, resources, budgets, maintenance, and customer relationships. Ensure health, safety, environmental, permit, and operational compliance while driving recycling performance and efficiency. Responsibilities include audits, reporting, incident investigations, corrective actions, contractor coordination, and continuous improvement across contracted sites.

Coordinate end-to-end bid and tender submissions, including monitoring procurement portals, managing deadlines, maintaining opportunity trackers, coordinating stakeholder contributions, controlling documents, and ensuring accurate, compliant submissions. Support reporting, governance, process improvements, and lessons learned while working with business development, operations, finance, commercial, and subject matter experts.

Supervise the safe, efficient operation of a recycling and transfer station. Lead a small team, maintain productivity and site performance, enforce health and safety and environmental compliance, manage on-site contractors, complete operational records, report incidents, and coordinate with customers, drivers, and internal stakeholders.

Leads financial planning and commercial performance analysis for the Southern Region. Responsibilities include budgeting, forecasting, investment appraisal, management accounts, KPI reporting, variance analysis, operational benchmarking, and performance improvement planning. Partners with senior finance and operational leaders, conducts site visits, challenges assumptions, supports decision-making, and maintains strong financial controls, delegated authorities, and balance sheet processes. The role also works with Internal Audit to identify and mitigate financial risks.

Provides commercial finance insight to sales and operational stakeholders, supporting tenders, new business decisions, profitability analysis, budgeting, forecasting, and performance reporting. Leads sales incentive calculations and governance while identifying process, automation, and data improvements using Excel, Power BI, and SharePoint. The role requires strong financial modelling, commercial judgement, stakeholder influence, and communication skills, with occasional travel to company sites.

Manage group consolidation, consolidated and subsidiary financial statements, technical accounting papers, IFRS compliance, accounting policies, and year-end audits. Liaise with finance teams and external auditors, resolve accounting queries, support new accounting standards implementation, and contribute to entity rationalization. Ensure statutory reporting meets UK regulatory deadlines and complies with UK GAAP and the Companies Act 2006.

Manages the day-to-day operation of a transfer station, ensuring safety, environmental compliance, service quality, productivity, and profitability. Leads and develops the site team, manages KPIs, budgets, and P&L, drives continuous improvement, and builds relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders. The role also supports growth initiatives, commodity sales, and effective waste management solutions.

Manages contract data integrity, performance reporting, KPI and SLA monitoring, governance, compliance, audits, and continuous improvement. Produces dashboards and management information, analyzes operational performance, identifies risks and root causes, supports corrective action plans, and coordinates compliance documentation, training records, health and safety requirements, environmental obligations, and external accreditation audits.

Manage complex waste management contracts across the Northwest, serving as the primary client contact and ensuring compliance, safety, service quality, retention, and profitability. Responsibilities include account growth, pricing negotiations, monthly reporting, P&L management, waste minimisation, continuous improvement, and coaching site teams. The role also supports specialist projects, emergency response, and hazardous waste services.

Analyze engineering, fleet, maintenance, financial, and operational data; build Power BI dashboards; develop Power Platform workflows and applications; improve data quality, reporting, automation, and business processes; support engineering systems, asset management, capital programs, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Act as strategic HR advisor to senior leaders, aligning people strategy with business goals. Drive talent, retention, succession, and change initiatives; use people data to influence decisions; manage trade union relations and complex employee relations issues to improve performance and employee experience.

Lead requirements discovery and definition, document Features and User Stories in Azure DevOps, plan and deliver BA activities across projects, engage stakeholders, facilitate workshops, support feasibility and business cases, drive process analysis and improvement, coordinate UAT, manage backlogs and contribute to BA standards.

Support regional management by delivering budgeting, forecasting, management accounts, variance analysis, balance sheet reconciliations, audit responses, and driving efficiency and CAPEX/cashflow oversight through business partnering and site visits.

Manage and grow multi-site waste disposal and resource management contracts, ensuring compliance, safety, P&L performance, and continuous improvement. Act as primary client contact, drive commercial growth and upsells, produce monthly reports, deliver waste minimisation programs, and support emergency response and specialist services.