Sub-Contracts / Supply Chain Manager 

Job Description

Location: London 

Earnings: £45000.00 to £55000.00 

Are you a results-driven Sub-Contract or Supply Chain Manager looking for an exciting new opportunity? Do you have a passion for sustainability and the environment? If your answer is yes look no further. With over 30,000 customers including big names such as Pret a Manger, Zara, Netflix a growing company making a big impact in the environmental space. We are looking for a dynamic individual with plenty of initiative, negotiation and sales skills.

Duties and Responsibilities 

• Manage a team of three supply chain executives effectively, setting goals and targets for them that help the department and business achieve its objectives. 
• Optimize and improve processes to ensure high levels of efficiency and automation to improve customer experience and reduce cost to operate. 
• Report to SMT and Board where required on the performance of Supply Chain function, providing key metrics and KPI analysis. 
• Build strong working relationships between the client company and its suppliers to help deliver high levels of service for our customers, excellent commercial arrangements; pricing, contracts, and SLA’s. 
• Personally build relationships with top and strategic suppliers, meet them regularly and assess them through KPI’s. 
• Take responsibility for consolidation and rationalisation of existing supply chain, where there is a service, environmental, or commercial reason to do so. 
• Find new supplier partners that can enhance our service to customers, widen the availability of recycling, and improve commercial performance. 
• Ensure 100% compliance with the First Mile’s safety, quality, and environmental standards across our supplier base. 
• Support new business and account management teams in turning around competitive and sustainable commercials and terms for new sub-contracted service lines quickly.  

Overall performance and compliance of waste services. To ensure service levels and margin are delivered in line with specified KPIs. To review internal processes with a view to improving our service for clients. 

Build relationships with waste service suppliers. To build strong working relationships in order to negotiate competitive pricing, contracts and supply agreements. To negotiate price change and use the First Mile growth and contract to improve margin. 

Provision of sub-contracting administration. To produce monthly reports to SMT and track progress against targets for division. To manage all supplier documentation. 

Benefits

Your starting salary will depend on your experience, but as your experience grows, so your salary.

Of course, as this is a sales/margin based role so there is a quarterly bonus scheme where you could earn up to 50% of your salary again.

We offer a range of benefits to our employees and will encourage you to follow your passions as well as the opportunity to learn and try new things within a structured framework designed to help you excel. On top of all this, we’ve added some extras which include:

• Enhanced maternity/paternity scheme
• Regular company parties and events
• Employee recognition at our monthly town hall event 
• 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays) as well as an extra day for each complete year of service.
• A £60 a month allowance to spend on you. If you want a gym membership, loads of cookies, to pamper yourself, or to pay for a flight it is totally up to you!
• Lots of drinks, food, socials, and events throughout the year.
• But most importantly, a fun, positive, collaborative workplace in which you can learn, working for a rapidly growing, multi-award-winning business in a sector that has never been more important.