Facilities Manager - IFM

Job Introduction

Are you an experienced IFM manager? Have you managed P&L accounts in excess of £2m? We have a great opening for a highly experienced Facilities Manager to join our team on a pharmaceutical site in High Wycombe.

You would look after a delivery of wide range of soft and hard services on site and a team of 75 with 8 direct reports. With post-lockdown return to workplaces and introduction of 3 new services, you would need to have very good change management and leadership skills, excellent stakeholder management abilities and a flair for innovation. Good understanding and previous experience in delivering security services would be highly beneficial.

We offer a salary up to £45,000, a bonus, flexible benefits fund and excellent development and progression opportunities within the company.

Role Responsibility

• Responsible for operational problem resolution and issue escalation. Deputizing in Multi-Site Facilities Managers absence.
• Measure service standards against agreed and obligated levels.
• Implementation of new innovations as required.
• Be an informed and authoritative point of contact for the key stakeholders at site to address any performance or operational issues.
• Identify and implement opportunities for business growth.
• Ensure forecasts are completed and track performance against budget taking appropriate actions to manage P&L in line with contract.
• Manage the P&L to maximize profit and control of costs to ensure budgets are met.
• Drive consistency across site and share best practice with others within UK J&J portfolio.
• Full understanding of contractual MSA, LSA, guiding principles applicable to site under new Vested agreement and delivery of content to site.
• Manage all space within the building liaising with all key stakeholders.
• Lead and represent the southern cluster for Corporate engagement, acting as a single point liaison for all initiatives.

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

• Proven experience in managing medium to large sites, multi-disciplined across building diverse teams
• Proven experience in management of P&L accounts in excess of £2m
• Experience of Soft FM Services (Catering, Grounds & Cleaning)
• Exceptional client relationship management skills
• Development of commercially viable solutions based on rigorous techniques to understand client and contractual needs
• Manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities
• Ability to interpret and utilise complex and varied financial and commercial information
• Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients and employees at all levels
• Achieve set, standards and operate to performance criteria; for example, health and safety, hygiene
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment
• Proven track record of initiating & leading demanding business change programmes
• Excellent communication, negotiating, influencing and facilitating skills
• Challenges the status Quo, innovative, willingness with a ‘can do & improve’ attitude

Desirable

• Facilities, Engineering, Technical or business qualification
• Experience in a pharmaceutical industry for large Blue Chip company
• Experience of Hard FM Services

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the 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.

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