Commercial Manager (Hard FM)

Job Introduction

We are on the lookout for an experienced Commercial Manager for our Manchester Foundation Trust site - the largest in the UK.  This newly created, exciting and dynamic permanent role is based within the Estates team. Main focuses include stakeholder compliance, streamlining sub-contractor performance and ensuring PFI SLA’s are being met.  

You’ll be giving skilled and quality leadership to the team. If you are a great communicator with a background in cross collaborative stakeholder management, understanding of project lifecycles and a passion for innovation then this role could be the next career move for you!

What’s in it for you?

• No day is ever the same – a huge contract you can really sink your teeth into
• Newly created role you can make your own
• Cross collaborative stakeholder management
• Excellent remuneration - £45- £50k
• A team you’ll be proud to be part of  
• Reporting into a fantastic leader

Role Responsibility

• Responsible for the effective and efficient Commercial Management, of all contractual obligations, and provides skilled and quality leadership to the Estates team on all Commercial requirements
• This is an exciting and dynamic new role within the Estates team, with a focus on managing the compliant service delivery of all Commercial matters within the Hard FM / Estates Department
• Oversee company needs through constantly communicating and negotiating with clients or business associates
• Strategically expand, preserve or improve the company’s procedures, standards or policies while sticking to business edicts and regulatory guidelines
• Monitor Sodexo’s objectives by supporting and delivering against Estates policies and compliance with legislative and departmental requirements
• Play a key role in identifying opportunities for innovation and modernisation, to meet operational performance targets and Sodexo objectives
• Complete review and overhaul of our Supply Chain Management procedures with a requirement to plan, develop and implement a robust Performance Measured based Supply Chain service delivery model combined with a lean way of procuring services and components to enable successful delivery of our contractual obligations
• The gatekeeper and owner of all Risk Registers, and shall work with internal and external customers to assure all Risk is managed and controlled
• Key to the role is the application of Sodexo HR policies and procedures and the management of the workforce under remit

The Ideal Candidate

• BSc or similar in Business Management
• Professional Membership: RICS / CIMA / ACCA
•  PFI & Healthcare Estates Experience
• Experience in external and internal Customer Management
• Excellent people management and communication skills.
• Good understanding of Health and Safety at Work regulations.
• Excellent reporting writing skills.
• Be flexible to meet the demands of a large PFI Acute Healthcare Estate
• Must be computer literate preferably with knowledge of building management systems and automated digital systems.
• Good verbal and written communication skills with good level of mathematical skills.
• Confident capable Multi Skilled Engineer and able to assess situations
• Self-motivated and able to adapt to changing priorities.
• Able to demonstrate an aptitude for problem solving using a logical approach
• Capable of managing difficulty customer and stakeholder conversations in a complex PFI environment.

Package Description

£45,000 - £50,000 per annum plus excellent benefits available

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

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.