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You will play a key role in ensuring the business has safe, compliant and commercially competitive disposal and recovery routes for hazardous waste across the UK and Europe. Working closely with technical teams, depots, customers and third-party treatment and disposal partners, you will negotiate commercial agreements, develop strategic supplier relationships and identify innovative recovery solutions that support both environmental objectives and business growth. You will also lead the commercial pricing function for hazardous waste, supporting key tenders and customer quotations while ensuring the business remains competitive in the marketplace. This is a home-based, remote role with regular national travel required, including site visits, supplier meetings and occasional overnight stays.
5+ years of experience within the hazardous waste industry, with a strong understanding of UK disposal and recovery networks.
- Develop and maintain compliant, cost-effective disposal and recovery routes for hazardous waste across the UK and Europe.
- Build and manage relationships with third-party disposal and recovery partners, negotiating commercial agreements that deliver best value.
- Lead the commercial pricing function for the Technical team, maintaining an accurate and up-to-date pricing matrix.
- Support key customer quotations, tenders and technical assessments by providing commercially competitive pricing and routing solutions.
- Identify new treatment technologies, recovery opportunities and market developments to improve environmental and commercial performance.
- Monitor depot disposal activity, analyse performance and work collaboratively with operational teams to optimise waste routing and reduce costs.
- Develop and maintain hazardous waste export routes in line with Transfrontier Shipment Regulations (TFS) and Basel Convention requirements.
- Produce commercial reports, KPIs and management presentations while ensuring compliance with hazardous waste legislation and company standards.
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Biffa
View Company ProfileBiffa is a premier, enterprise-grade sustainable waste management and circular-economy powerhouse engineered to orchestrate massive-scale collection, recycling, and recovery ecosystems. Operating as the UK’s leading integrated waste-solutions hub, the company eliminates the operational friction of traditional, legacy disposal models—which frequently suffer from fragmented supply-chains, high landfill-dependency, and opaque carbon-reporting—by seamlessly deploying advanced material-processing telemetry, rigorous anaerobic-digestion and energy-recovery architectures, and cohesive cross-sector sustainability frameworks. Moving beyond rigid legacy "haul-away" paradigms, Biffa empowers thousands of local authorities, SMEs, and blue-chip enterprises to dynamically synchronize their waste-reduction, resource-recovery, and net-zero-compliance pipelines with elite, scalable, and audit-ready execution. Under the hood, their sophisticated proprietary operational infrastructure—supporting 95% of UK postcodes across 200+ sites—natively manages complex multi-stream waste ingestion, instantaneous sorting-facility routing, and automated renewable-energy generation workflows, providing the necessary operational foundation to drive the UK’s transition to a circular economy. What sets Biffa apart is its uncompromising dedication to frictionless resource-orchestration; by bridging the gap between highly technical, performance-intensive environmental-compliance demands and accessible, high-velocity digital-service experiences, the firm empowers modern organizations to radically accelerate their sustainability-velocity, eliminate systemic environmental-bottlenecks, and build an unassailable foundation for continuous commercial and institutional dominance in the modern, AI-transformed industrial landscape.
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