Senior Material Sales Development Manager

Location - National - expectations to travel to Veolia offices and sites when necessary
Salary - £ competitive + Veolia benefits (car allowance + significant bonus + generous pension scheme)
Hours - 40 hours per week
When you see the world as we do, you see an opportunity to help the world take better care of its resources, and help it become a better place for everyone. This is 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 our environment, and contribute to our inclusive culture.
What we can offer you:
- 25 days of annual leave
- Facilities including a free onsite gym, parking and subsidised restaurant at our Cannock office
- 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
- 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:
You will play a key, and pivotal, role in leading a team whose primary focus is to sell and / or provide internal supply support for 1.5M tonnes / £164M of recovered commodities (multi-fractional, recyclable raw materials) annually, covering over 280 Veolia sites and contracts and over 220 customers.
Our Materials Sales Department has responsibility to advise Veolia's U.K. business on the quality of various secondary raw materials (including ferrous, non-ferrous metals, the full range of recovered paper grades and textiles), manage internal supply support for ~440kt pa // +£30M pa of recovered materials and from across the UK to a range of end-user customers throughout the U.K.,Europe and Asia - all of whom are ecologically and environmentally compliant as well as financially stable - to recover, recycle, reuse or manufacture new products from.
The team are also responsible for the application and administration of Veolia U.K's Environment Agency domestic and export reprocessing accreditations (£5.5M pa).
Reporting directly to the Materials Sales Director, the purpose of this role is to understand and monitor changing (multi) material markets & competitor developments, to continuously develop market analyses and nurture sales strategies via both internal and external networks across the recovered metals and paper industries, providing regular but relevant updates to the U.K business.
What we're looking for:

• Considerable experience within the recovered metals and paper recycling industries - business / commodity sales / international markets / global supply chains.
• A profound knowledge of domestic and international waste regulations, product and market compliance, with a strong interest in recycling, wastes management or related industries.
• A profound knowledge of recovered metals and paper grades, transformation processes and possibilities.
• Strong interpersonal traits, with excellent organisational and time-management skills and proven experience of communicating / negotiating at board level within the metals, paper making and retail sectors.
• A proven / demonstrable track record in industry networking
• A dynamic approach, with the ability to cope with a fast paced, pressurised working
  environment, willing and able to travel - both domestically and abroad.
• Advanced level literacy and verbal communication skills.

If you don't meet all of our outlined requirements we'd still love for you to apply. If you feel that you'd be a great fit for this role and Veolia then we'd like to find out more about you.
However, one of Veolia U.K's policies is that it doesn't sell any recovered paper to third party traders and so the successful applicant must be sufficiently well placed to both adhere to this mandate and present it's concept as a USP.
What's next?
Apply today, so we can make a difference for generations to come.
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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.