Food Waste Feedstock Sourcing Manager

Full Job Description

Salary: £45,000 per annum plus Car, Bonus and Veolia benefits

Location: 

Hybrid- Home/Warrington/Leeds

When you see the world as we do, you see the chance to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. It’s why we’re looking for someone who’s just as committed as we are, to push for genuine change and bring our ambition of Ecological Transformation to life. 

We know that everyone here at Veolia can help us work alongside our communities, look after the environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.

What we can offer you;

• Access to our company pension scheme

• Discounts on everything from groceries to well known retailers

• Access to a range of resources to support your physical, mental and financial health; so you can lean on us whenever you need to

• 24 hour access to a virtual GP, 365 days a year, for you and family members in your household

• One paid days leave every year to volunteer and support your community 

• Ongoing training and development opportunities, allowing you to reach your full potential

What you'll be doing;

As the Feedstock Sourcing Manager, your role is to secure a sustainable and consistent supply of food waste for anaerobic digestion, animal feed, and bioconversion processes. By fostering relationships with various stakeholders and optimizing sourcing processes, you contribute to the organization's sustainable practices and business growth within the renewable energy and animal nutrition sectors. This role also seeks to underpin our solution to industry by ensuring that Veolia has a best-in-class food waste value proposition. 

• Work across all business lines to ensure Veolia’s food waste proposals are optimal.

• Collaborate with transfer station Business Managers to target and secure additional volumes for offtake.

• Work with our project teams to secure non-animal byproduct feedstocks for animal feed and bioconversion. 

• Nurture understanding of food waste values across the food waste project team. 

• Establish a network or relationships within the industrial food and beverage manufacturing and grocery sectors.

• Maintain regular contact and foster positive collaborative relationships with AD operators and 3rd party animal feed businesses.

• Assume overall responsibility for the successful delivery of contracts with feedstock suppliers, internal customers and offtakers.

• Work with our clients to provide the most tangible solution from a commercial and environmental perspective. 

• Devise a well thought out strategy for collaboration with competitors relative to service offerings and treatment sites.

• Develop and maintain strong relationships with customers to ensure client satisfaction and contract compliance.

• Ensure legislative compliance across food waste operations. 

• Supplement the Veolia value proposition by providing coherent and optimal routing of food waste. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to fulfill contractual obligations, exceeding customer expectations.

• Manage budgets effectively, ensuring that expenditures are aligned with project goals and financial targets.

• Identify cost-saving opportunities and optimise resource allocation to achieve financial efficiency.

• Drive sustainability initiatives within the project, seeking opportunities to enhance environmental and social impact through driving food waste through the waste hierarchy

• Work closely with the sustainability team to commercialise processes, ensuring they align with sustainability objectives and meet industry standards.

• Continuously assess and recommend improvements to scale up operations and optimise efficiency in line with business and sustainability goals.

• Implement innovation to reduce contamination and rejection and ensure as much food as possible is taken outside the waste hierarchy through delivery to animal feed.

• Facilitate the development of new, sustainable technologies such as bioconversion by supplementing the business case through developing a strong feedstock position.
   

What we're looking for;

• 3+ years of experience working in/with the AD sector

• Experience of food waste commodity trading

• Extensive client interface

• Management experience

• Curiosity and ability to learn quickly.

• Excellent organisational and time management skills.

• Passionate about preventing the climate crisis.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Excellent business and financial acumen. 

• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel and Google suite (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides).

What's next?

We're proud to be listed in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023, being named as a Top 10 Very Big Organisation and Highly Commended as a workplace for 55+.

This accolade further demonstrates our commitment to our people and our actions in creating an environment where everyone can be their true selves and enjoy working at Veolia.

We want to ensure that you feel supported throughout the application process and provide reasonable adjustments where necessary and requested. If you require any reasonable adjustments as part of your application and interview process please do not hesitate to let us know.

Here at Veolia, we’re proud to be known as an equal opportunities employer. We know how important it is to be fully committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive place to work for every one of our colleagues. So no matter their age, gender, gender expression, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexuality or veteran status, every applicant who meets the minimum requirements will be considered fully.

Here at Veolia, we’re proud to be known as an equal opportunities employer. We know how important it is to be fully committed to building and maintaining a diverse and inclusive place to work for every one of our colleagues. So no matter their age, gender, gender expression, disability, race, ethnicity, religion, belief, sexuality or veteran status, every applicant who meets the minimum requirements will be considered fully.