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Business Manager

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

Do you have experience managing a large team? Do you possess great leadership and client relationship management skills? Would you like to work in a diverse environment? If yes, this role could be for you!

We are seeking a Business Manager to join our team in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. As a Business manager you will report to the Contract manager and support the Cleaning and Catering Services in areas of HR, Training and Development, Health and Safety, Risk, Quality, Performance, Environment, Ethics and Management Systems across the team of circa 70.

To be successful in this role your determination and focus to achieve fantastic results will shine through when you talk through your achievements.

This is an excellent opportunity to develop your management career.

Interviews will be held WC 01 November 2021.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Support the operational teams in all areas of HR, Training and Development, Health and Safety, Risk, Quality, Performance, Environment, Ethics and Management Systems.
  • Comply with all company policies, processes and legislation
  • Establish and maintain relationships with all levels within the business and client organization
  • Manage all services ensuring high level of customer satisfaction
  • Monitor performance against SOW/SLA
  • Ensure costs and expenditure are controlled in line with budget

A full list of responsibilities can be found in the attached job description

 

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

  • Excellent eye for detail and great leadership and client relationship management skills
  • Proven track record of leading, managing and developing a large cross functional team
  • The candidate should have a good background in auditing
  • Reporting: Ability to write persuasive and effective reports and communications, which clearly define findings and their causes, and recommendations made.
  • Analytical Skills: Must possess strong analytical skills. The ability to systematically gather information from a variety of sources, analyze information and draw appropriate conclusions.
  • Ability to implement change, engage and build the team
  • Management of Profit and Loss Account
  • Excellent communications skills (verbal and written)
  • Quality focused and strong commitment to improve
  • Resilient and the ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritise importance
  • Good knowledge of MS Office and efficient IT

Desirable:

  • CIPD qualification – or willing to undertake within 12 months
  • Trainer qualification
  • Proactive and positive
  • Team player
  • Open-minded towards other cultures/people
  • Flexible
  • Methodical and rigorous
  • Project management experience

Package Description

Competitive Salary

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance, free will writing, life assurance, 24hrs GP access and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave.

We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

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