Principal Waste Contracts Officer

Organisation: Leicestershire County Council

Work Location: County Hall, Glenfield, Leicester, LE3 8RA

Worker Category: Hybrid Worker

Salary: £43,860 - £47,829 per annum (Pro rata for part time)

Working Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing Date: 04/02/2026

Interview Date(s): TBC

Looking for new challenge? Join us in shaping the future of waste management at Leicestershire County Council!

We’re looking for a Principal Waste Contracts Officer to take the lead in managing high-value waste management contracts and ensuring our services run efficiently and effectively

In this pivotal role, you’ll oversee the day-to-day operation of our waste disposal contracts, driving improvements in performance, compliance, and value for money. Working alongside the Team Managers you will also play a key part in the development of our waste contracts. Your expertise will help us deliver reliable, sustainable services for the communities we serve.

If you’re passionate about delivering high-quality services and want to make a real impact, we’d love to hear from you

We’re looking for a proactive and commercially minded individual to join our team and take the lead on managing key waste contracts, ensuring the delivery of reliable and cost-effective waste services.

The role requires:

• A flexible, ‘can do’ attitude
• Strong financial and problem-solving skills
• Experience in contract and service management, ideally within the waste sector
• Knowledge of procurement processes as well as budget management
• A relevant degree or equivalent experience
• The ability to travel to locations across the county.

You’ll play a vital role in driving efficiency and value for money across our services, supporting major procurement projects and ensuring compliance with all relevant rules, policies, and procedures that keep waste services running smoothly.

To apply for this post, you must:

• Hold a relevant degree and/or equivalent experience in contract, procurement, and management. Or have full Chartered status of a relevant professional organisation (eg CIWM)
• Have significant experience in procurement and management of waste contracts or similar high-value service contracts.
• Understand and have experience in budget management, forecasting and reporting for significant budgets.
• Be able to interpret and create technical/non-technical reports and advise stakeholders accordingly.
• Be able to engage effectively with stakeholders, including contractors, senior colleagues, the media and be able to lead meetings.
• Be able to demonstrate excellent knowledge of waste management, waste operations and relevant legislation.
• Be able to demonstrate excellent communication, negotiation skills and a willingness to travel across the county as required.

You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equality, diversity and inclusion.

In addition, we also expect you to share our commitment to our values and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the selection process.

Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.

We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual's personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.

Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the Our Working Styles page on our career site.

Sally Talbot - Team Manager, Waste Contracts and Haulage

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