Specialist, Recycling Collection Projects - ON

at  Circular Materials

OVERVIEW

Reporting to the Senior Manager, Common Collection System, the Specialist, Recycling Collection Projects, is responsible for supporting the activities related to operations of the Common Collection System. The Specialist’ primary focus will be to gather and consolidate collection data and financial information from communities and contractors for use by the Operations team for contract execution, implementation, and optimization. The work performed by the role will also be used by other internal teams, such as Service Provider Reporting, Procurement and Business Intelligence & Analytics.

EDUCATION

• Post-secondary education related to Business Administration or professional designation from a recognized procurement organization or project management or equivalent experience.

EXPERIENCE

• 5+ years direct or indirect management of vendors or contractors.
• Knowledge related to waste management, ideally with a focus on material collection and consolidation.

KNOWLEDGE/COMPETENCIES/SKILLS

• Demonstrated ability to work in a dynamic environment where change, growth and innovation are a constant.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, changing, conceptual environment while managing multiple stakeholder perspectives and priorities.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office 365, including SharePoint, Teams, Excel, Visio, and JIRA.
• Team player with a professional, disciplined, and self-directed approach.
• Good negotiation and conflict resolution skills.
• Good verbal communication skills.
• Excellent relationship management skills which can build relationships with communities, internal CM teams and at all levels in the CM organizational structure.
• Excellent attention to detail, analytical, problem solving, planning, and execution skills.

• Develops a deep understanding of the terms of Circular Materials’ Master Services Agreements and Statements of Work for collection and material receiving contracts as well as the regulatory requirements associated with the waste diversion regulations to assist in procurement and operationalization of contracts.
• Gathers and manages comprehensive and foundational Blue Box program and financial data, always ensuring its accuracy and completeness, to help:
• inform competitive compensation offers;
• facilitate timely and well considered responses to contract terms and condition changes during the negotiation process;
• support short- and long-term strategic planning activities; and
• ensure regulatory compliance.
• Organizes details needed and helps develop change orders as required in collaboration with procurement and legal.
• Collaborates with Circular Material’s (CM) department responsible for preparing procurement documents.
• Carries out research needed to inform daily contract oversight and longer-term planning decisions.
• Supports the Operations team in the development of processes and procedures needed for the Operations department to effectively interact with communities, service providers and partners.
• Interfaces with other departments in the organization and with external partners, under the supervision of the Senior Manager, to enable them to deliver on their functional requirements including financial reporting and payments in relation to the MSA and SoWs established by the Operations team or in the roll out or ongoing contract oversight of regulated residential blue box programming to communities.
• Collaborates and supports other Operations teams including Material Quality, Post-Collection and National in CCS project and process development.
• Supports the up-to-date management of key communications by ensuring emails the departments inbox is actioned and resolved within the established timeframe and filed for posterity and possible future reference using departments procedures.