Healthcare Waste & Linen Logistics Lead

Sodexo; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 33,000 - 41,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Mental health support

Employee Assistance Programme

Health and wellbeing app

Sodexo Discounts

Retirement plan

Death in service

Cycle to work

Volunteering

Flexible work

Full training

Job summary

Sodexo is hiring a Logistics Services Manager at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road Campus. The role oversees Waste, Linen and Transport services, driving operational excellence and patient-focused service delivery in a large healthcare setting.

You will lead teams, manage recruitment and training, ensure safety compliance, and drive continuous improvement across logistics operations to support clinicians, staff and visitors.

Qualifications

• Lead day-to-day delivery of logistics services, ensuring performance and contractual compliance.
• Manage workforce planning and labour resources to maintain service excellence.
• Drive exceptional customer, patient and visitor experiences with consistently high service standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead the day to day delivery of logistics services, ensuring operational performance, contractual compliance, and achievement of key business objectives.
• Manage workforce planning and labour resources effectively to maintain service excellence, achieve KPIs, and deliver efficient operational performance.
• Drive exceptional customer, patient, and visitor experiences by ensuring consistently high service standards and proactively addressing service improvement opportunities.
• Lead, develop, and inspire managers, supervisors, and frontline teams through effective coaching, performance management, succession planning, and employee engagement.
• Take responsibility for recruitment, onboarding, training, and ongoing development of direct reports, fostering a high performing and safety focused culture.
• Ensure compliance with all company, client, and Trust policies, procedures, and Health and Safety requirements, proactively managing risk and addressing non conformance.
• Build strong communication channels across all levels of the operation, ensuring colleagues remain informed, engaged, and aligned to organisational objectives and values.
• Support continuous improvement by implementing new policies, procedures, and operational initiatives that enhance service delivery, efficiency, and overall performance.

Skills

Operational management

Stakeholder management

People leadership

Analytical skills

Health and safety

Job description

Sodexo is hiring a Logistics Services Manager at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road Campus. The role oversees Waste, Linen and Transport services, driving operational excellence and patient-focused service delivery in a large healthcare setting.

You will lead teams, manage recruitment and training, ensure safety compliance, and drive continuous improvement across logistics operations to support clinicians, staff and visitors.