Waste Champion - Food Hygiene

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Carlisle; On-site; GBP 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading cleaning services provider in Carlisle is seeking a Waste Champion to support food manufacturing waste management. Responsibilities include building customer relationships, maximizing collection opportunities, and delivering regular sales performance reports. Ideal candidates should have degree-level qualifications, strong Excel and PowerPoint skills, and the ability to work autonomously and collaboratively. The role offers a salary of £29,500 with various employee benefits including enhanced pension contributions and a flexible lifestyle benefits platform.

Benefits

Flexible lifestyle benefits platform

Up to five additional holiday days

Critical illness insurance

Discounted dental and technology products

Cycle-to-work scheme

Life cover up to four times salary

Enhanced pension contributions

Save-as-you-earn scheme

Mitie Matching Share Plan

Mitie Stars recognition programme

Qualifications

• Proficient in advanced Excel and PowerPoint skills including data analysis and creating pivot tables.
• Autonomous individual who can work part of a team towards a common goal.
• Attention to detail and strong organisational skills.

Responsibilities

• Build strong relationships with internal and external customers.
• Deliver weekly and monthly sales numbers against forecast.
• Track and maintain the Imperfect Product Dashboard.

Skills

Effective relationship building

Data analysis in Excel

Logical thinking

Good communication

Working independently

Education

Degree-level qualification

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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Waste Champion - Food Manufacturing

Temp Role to cover MAT Leave

Annual Salary - £29,500

Site based at our client site - 54 Church St, Caldewgate, Carlisle, CA2 5TG

Job Overview

Site Waste Champion is responsible for the communication and execution of the Imperfect Product sales agenda and associated site waste streams, reporting to the central functional lead.

The candidate will typically be responsible for organising and maximising collection opportunities in each product category of imperfect product.

They will collaborate effectively and raise potential risks to key stakeholders.

Deliver documented reports on waste stream progress on a weekly basis to key stakeholders.

The role covers multiple waste streams across the site, including card, plastic, animal feed, R1 Reduce, R2 Reuse, R3 Recycle, and other streams (list not exhaustive).

Main Duties

• Build strong relationships with internal and external customers.
• Ensure maximum return is achieved where possible on the sale of waste.
• Deliver the weekly and monthly Imperfect Product sales numbers vs forecast.
• Support the UK Waste Specialist and Site Management Teams through reports and analysis that aid decision making.
• Provide details of scope data relevant to the role, e.g. weekly net sales.
• Maintain the Imperfect Product Dashboard by tracking volume.

What we are looking for

• Effective at building relationships.
• Autonomous and able to work as part of a team towards a common goal.
• Logical mind and eye for detail.
• Proficient Excel and PowerPoint skills, including data analysis, advanced formula creation, pivot tables, and generating weekly and monthly reports.
• Ideally held a degree-level qualification.
• Ability to interact with people at all levels.
• Organised, detailed individual.
• Good communicator.
• Proactive and able to work independently with minimal supervision.

Our benefits include a flexible lifestyle benefits platform (Choices), up to five extra days’ holiday each year, critical illness insurance, dental and technology products at discounted rates, a cycle‑to‑work scheme, life cover up to four times salary, enhanced pension contributions, a save‑as‑you‑earn scheme, a Mitie Matching Share Plan, and Mitie Stars recognition programme with monthly cash prizes and a £10,000 top prize.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long‑term condition and need reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please email Ashish Gautam at [e-mail].

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