Project and Audit Manager

Biffa Waste Services; Aylesbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading environmental services company in the United Kingdom is looking for a Project and Audit Manager. You will manage projects, ensuring timely delivery and compliance while enhancing operational processes. Ideal candidates will have project management experience, a strong commercial background, and excellent communication skills. Join us in changing the way people think about waste, as part of a diverse and inclusive team.

Qualifications

• Track record of delivering projects against KPIs.
• Experience with P&L management.
• Proficient with MS Office package.

Responsibilities

• Manage all assigned projects ensuring timely completion.
• Review departmental processes every 4 months.
• Implement QA control systems and procedures.
• Provide project status reports to stakeholders.
• Manage Supplier Compliance through audits.

Skills

Project management experience

Strong commercial awareness

Operational or service improvement

Excellent communication skills

Customer-focused

IT Literate

Team management experience

Flexible and proactive

Job description

Project and Audit Manager

A quick look at the role.

As Subcontract Services Project and Audit Manager, you’ll take ownership of developing and maintaining departmental processes, ensuring the wider team and business are kept fully informed of any changes. You’ll review and document operations across key service areas (Biffa Assist, SWR Supply Chain, OneCall, and Skoup), delivering projects in line with Biffa’s Project Management Standards. You’ll also lead supplier compliance through audits and documentation, manage the Compliance SharePoint hub, and step in to support departmental operations when the General Manager is unavailable.

Your core responsibilities

• To manage all assigned projects, ensuring completion upon time and within budgets to the correct quality, including leading on all acquisitions that affect the Sub-Contract Services team.
• Manage the processes and procedures used within the department, ensuring they are up to date and relevant and support any changes within the business and department – processes to be reviewed every 4 months.
• Manage project progress in line with company standards and set up QA control systems and procedures.
• Works closely with relevant stake holders to ensure effective and efficient implementation of the project(s).
• Submits project status reports to stakeholders; including progress, risks and updates.
• Provide assistance with period end reporting, by providing accurate data which will affect the P&L and period end reports.
• Responsibility for Supplier Compliance, including face to face audits, management of desktop audits and compliance documentation, management of Compliance SharePoint hub and Waste Transfer documentation.

Our essential requirements

• Project management experience, with a track record of delivering against KPIs
• Strong commercial awareness and P&L experience
• Proven background in operational or service improvement
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Customer-focused with great relationship-building ability
• IT Literate - confident with the MS Package
• Experience managing or leading teams
• Flexible, proactive, and eager to learn and adapt

Changing the way people think about waste.

At Biffa, we love working with waste. Whether we’re turning it into sustainable power, finding new ways to recycle it or simply keeping it off the streets, we believe every day is an opportunity to improve the lives of millions. It’s a view that’s shared by our 11,500+ people around the country, who trust us to provide them with a career that’s always rewarding, often challenging, but never dull. And it’s why we’re the UK’s No. 1 choice for business waste management.

Dedicated to diversity.

Being inclusive is core to our culture at Biffa; we believe different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds are key to developing a creative and effective working environment that represents our communities and generates the best outcomes for colleagues, customers and stakeholders, which is why you’ll find us championing diversity, equity and inclusion at every turn.