Managing Director - L&S Waste Management

Biffa Waste Services; England; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Biffa Waste Services seeks a Managing Director for L&S Waste Management. This role involves strategic leadership to foster business growth, operational governance, and team development while ensuring adherence to industry regulations. Ideal candidates will have significant leadership experience and expertise in waste management and recycling legislation.

Qualifications

• Proven track record with 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Demonstrable success in leading organisational transformation and growth.
• Waste industry specific experience and understanding of waste management legislation.

Responsibilities

• Ensure health and safety standards are met and updated.
• Develop L&S business strategy contributing to 5-year business plan.
• Manage financial performance and service delivery across customer base.

Skills

Leadership

Strategic Thinking

Analytical Skills

Commercial Awareness

Job description

A quick look at the role

As a Managing Director you will provide strategic business leadership for the L&S Waste Management, fostering profitable and sustainable business growth whilst ensuring key operational governance, legislation and regulations are fully adhered to. You build a high-performance, safety-first culture, driving employee engagement and ensuring the Biffa I&C commercial approach, based on best practice is consistently adopted.

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Your core responsibilities

• Responsible for Health and Safety within the L&S, ensuring risk assessments and operating practices are up to date and consistently applied across the Division.
• Responsible for the development of the L&S business strategy and contributing towards the 5-year business plan, focused on generating underlying operating profit and cashflow to agreed targets.
• As a member of the C&D division leadership Team, contribute to the Group business strategy and annual business plan together with the responsibilities of corporate governance, compliance and decision making / approval of key group wide projects, initiatives and policies
• Identify cross group opportunities to support customer propositions and retention.
• Create the annual L&S Business Plan (BBP) including key objectives, KPIs and be responsible for the cascade of objectives to senior leaders and staff within L&S to ensure co-ordinated and aligned activity with the C&D division as a whole.
• Responsible for the financial performance, client management and service performance of the C&D business across its full customer base.
• Develop and deliver a clear roadmap for the integration of acquired businesses to contribute to creating an efficient and effective C&D business.
• Responsible for efficiency across the L&S business ensuring a one Biffa approach and developing operational excellence.
• Responsible for the recruitment and selection, development and succession planning processes within the L&S leadership team such that appropriate skills, experience and capabilities are in place in the short to longer term

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Our essential requirements

• Proven track record with 5 years in a senior leadership role
• Demonstrable success in leading organisational transformation and growth
• Waste industry specific experience and an understanding of waste and recycling management legislation
• Confident with financial planning, budget management and business planning
• Strategic and systemic thinker with excellent analytical skills and exceptional commercial awareness

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Biffa – we’re changing the way people think about waste

L&S, part of Biffa, is not your typical waste management company. Our focus is firmly fixed on the customer experience and providing a full range of high quality, reliable services to support our customers. We have the experience, infrastructure and expertise to support customers, be they large national contractors, local builders or householders in need of a simple, hassle free waste removal solution. Our team of highly trained drivers operate a fleet of 75 state of the art vehicles across Hampshire and the surrounding counties.

We believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment which is why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn