Waste and Linen Manager

Independents by 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

• Logistics Services Manager
• £37,000 Per Annum
• 40 Hours Per Week
• Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:30
• Location is Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9WL

If you thrive in fast paced operational environments and enjoy leading teams to deliver outstanding results, we want to hear from you.

As Logistics Services Manager, you will oversee Waste, Linen and Transport services across Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust's Oxford Road Campus, driving operational excellence, service improvement, sustainability initiatives and compliance. This is an exciting opportunity to influence service delivery across a large and complex healthcare setting while making a direct impact on patient, visitor and staff experience every day.

What You'll Do:

• 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.

What You Bring:

• Proven operational management experience within Facilities Management, Logistics, Waste Management, or Support Services, ideally gained within a healthcare or similarly complex operational environment.

• Strong knowledge of waste management operations, including clinical, offensive, domestic, recycling, and hazardous waste streams. A CIWM qualification or membership (or equivalent) would be highly desirable.

• Sound understanding of waste legislation, Duty of Care requirements, compliance standards, auditing processes, and environmental sustainability initiatives, with a track record of driving waste reduction and recycling improvements.

• A people focused leader with experience of managing, developing, motivating, and coaching high performing teams, ensuring accountability and delivering operational excellence through managers, supervisors, and frontline colleagues.

• Excellent stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong relationships with clients, operational teams, and senior leaders, while effectively managing KPIs, SLAs, and contractual commitments.

• Strong knowledge of Health and Safety, risk management, and compliance, including risk assessments, incident investigations, safe systems of work, and the implementation of corrective actions.

• A results driven mindset with proven experience of analysing performance data, identifying efficiencies, controlling costs, and delivering continuous improvement initiatives within a fast paced operational environment.

• Experience within healthcare, NHS, PFI, or FM contract environments would be advantageous, alongside an understanding of the challenges of delivering critical support services in a patient focused setting.

What we offer:

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it's a chance tobe part of something greater. You'll belong in a company and team that values you foryou; you'll act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions; and you'll be able to thrive in your own way. In addition, we also offer a range of resources, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering mental health and wellbeing support.
• Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or larger problems where you may need additional support, including legal and financial advice, support with work related issues or personal issues such as bereavement.
• Access to a free health and wellbeing app that provides rewards for maintaining a healthy lifestyle and includes access to a 24hr virtual GP and various other services.
• The Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 (also open to friends and family) and/or the prepayment cashback card.
• Money Insights and financial benefits via the Salary Finance Platform.
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Sodexo Retirement Plan
• A Death in Service benefit for colleagues who pass away whilst employed by Sodexo
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools.
• Cycle to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit.
• Volunteering Opportunities to enable all colleagues to help support worthwhile causes in our communities.
• Flexible and dynamic work environment
• Competitive compensation
• Full training and full protective uniform supplied.

About Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every day for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of Onsite Food and FM Services, Benefits and Rewards Services and Personal and Home Services.

We are committed tobeingan inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents and Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.

We're a Disability Confident Leader employer. We're committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Sodexo Disability, Ability network, So Together, Generations and Origins.