Biffa
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1912
📦 Logistics
💼 Consulting
🏥 Healthcare
Logistics • Consulting • Healthcare
Biffa is a leading waste management company in the UK, dedicated to transforming waste into valuable resources and fostering sustainable communities. With over 100 years of experience, Biffa provides comprehensive waste management solutions including waste prevention, recycling, and recovery processes. The company is deeply committed to the circular economy and plays a pivotal role in the UK's efforts to tackle climate change. Offering services to small, medium, and large businesses as well as local authorities, Biffa focuses on reducing emissions, enhancing recycling efforts, and innovating for environmental sustainability. Biffa also partners with various organizations and institutions to address significant challenges in waste management.
Fleet Category Manager
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🔥 29 minutes ago
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Biffa
5001 - 10000 employees
Founded 1912
📦 Logistics
💼 Consulting
🏥 Healthcare
Logistics • Consulting • Healthcare
Biffa is a leading waste management company in the UK, dedicated to transforming waste into valuable resources and fostering sustainable communities. With over 100 years of experience, Biffa provides comprehensive waste management solutions including waste prevention, recycling, and recovery processes. The company is deeply committed to the circular economy and plays a pivotal role in the UK's efforts to tackle climate change. Offering services to small, medium, and large businesses as well as local authorities, Biffa focuses on reducing emissions, enhancing recycling efforts, and innovating for environmental sustainability. Biffa also partners with various organizations and institutions to address significant challenges in waste management.
📋 Description
• Develop and maintain effective supplier and stakeholder relationships across all areas of Biffa's Fleet procurement activity. • Monitor market trends, supplier developments and key commercial drivers, using this insight to inform sourcing and procurement decisions. • Lead and support sourcing activities in line with Fleet procurement policies, governance requirements and business objectives. • Deliver measurable value through strategic sourcing, supplier management and the introduction of innovative solutions from across the fleet and automotive sectors. • Act as a trusted business partner to operational and functional stakeholders, providing expert procurement advice and support at strategic, tactical and operational levels. • Lead the negotiation of high-value and business-critical contracts, ensuring commercial value is maximised while appropriately managing risk. • Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure procurement activity is aligned to business priorities and strategic objectives. • Support opportunities relating to alternative fuels, fleet decarbonisation and innovative technologies that contribute to the future development of Biffa's fleet.
🎯 Requirements
• Experience within technical fleet, automotive, commercial vehicle, transport or alternative fuel-related categories. • Previous procurement, category management or strategic sourcing experience. • Strong commercial and financial acumen, with the ability to interpret financial information and work collaboratively with Finance and Operational stakeholders to deliver business benefits. • Ability to challenge current practices and purchasing decisions in order to identify business requirements and deliver optimal procurement solutions. • Knowledge of sustainable procurement principles, including environmental, ethical, labour and human rights considerations, and their contribution to social value. • Strong project management skills, with experience managing multiple workstreams, stakeholder groups, risks, timelines and governance requirements. • Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills. • A proactive, solutions-focused approach with the ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.
🏖️ Benefits
• Salary sacrifice car scheme (Ecodrive) • Dental cover (Denplan) • Health cash plan (Medicash) • Costco & Company Shop memberships • Cycle2Work scheme • Charity Giving (via payroll) • Fuel card scheme • Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) • Discounted gym memberships • Biffa Perks – discounts and vouchers via Reward Gateway
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