Regional General Manager

Regional General Manager

A quick look at the role

We are seeking a dynamic and strategic Regional General Manager in Municipal to oversee specific contracts across Midlands, South West & North West ensuring commercial viability while delivering high-quality service to our clients. This is your chance to leverage our depot network and assets to explore new commercial opportunities and make a significant impact through a team of managers and colleagues.

Your core responsibilities

• Commercial: Drive the success of regional depots, ensuring budgets and forecasts are accurate and delivered. You'll be at the forefront, reviewing financial performance and providing insightful support to managers to optimise EBITDA.

• Client & Business Development: Work closely with our business development team and clients, particularly during contract renewal times. Build and maintain strategic relationships with clients and prospective customers, attending and recording Partnership/Quarterly review meetings. In some instances, negotiate pay deals with relevant unions.

• Leadership & Team Building: Demonstrate exceptional mentoring and coaching skills, developing capabilities within your management teams. Lead by example, instilling leadership behaviours and fostering continuous improvement in health, safety, and compliance.

• Strategic Planning: Adapt quickly to crisis contracts, developing robust rectification strategies. Plan for the future with typical planning timescales of six to eighteen months.

• Reporting & Improvement: Ensure KPIs are produced weekly, presenting summary reports with action points against variances. Produce monthly board reports on contract performance, recommending and strategizing improvements.

• Talent Management: Work with HR to adhere to recruitment policies, retain talent, and build succession pipelines. Focus on employee engagement, developing robust plans to target hot spot areas.

Our essential requirements

Experience:

• Demonstrated success in working with local authority clients or at comparable levels.
• Comprehensive understanding of industry-specific, transport, and health & safety legislation.
• Established track record in managing the commercial aspects of multisite contracts.
• Knowledge and experience of UK Local Authority norms and values.
• Strong grasp of quality standards principles, including continuous improvement and internal
• Demonstrable commercial and strategic thinking, with the ability to manage upwards and downwards. Strong mentoring and coaching capabilities.

Qualifications: Certificates: WAMITAB Level 4 and IOSH industry qualification are essential. Relevant Transport knowledge and a CPC are required.

And here’s why you’ll love it at Biffa.

• Competitive salary + Bonus
• Generous pension scheme.
• Medical and dental scheme.
• Retail and leisure discounts.
• Holiday and travel discounts.
• Bike to work scheme.
• Plus much more......

Dedicated to diversity.

At Biffa we believe different ideas, perspective and backgrounds are key to developing a creative working environment that delivers real results. It’s why you’ll find us championing diversity and equality at every turn.