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General Services Manager

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Job Introduction

If you’re an experienced facilities manager looking to develop your career then this could be the role for you.

Working as the General Services Manager at one of our  FMCG sites based in Oxfordshire you will take full management responsibility for all FM Services and the teams with full accountability for both soft and hard services delivery.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Responsible for the day to day operation of the Banbury site
  • Ensure full working knowledge of the areas and buildings within the Sodexo responsibility at the site.
  • Ensure Health and Safety compliance with policies, systems and procedures are in place
  • Ensure adequate control and monitoring is applied to all finance activities undertaken.
  • Ensure consistency in process and procedures deployed in operational delivery of services across all sites/contracts.
  • To represent Sodexo on technical  questions from both internal and external auditors
  • Functional responsibility for service activity for ensuring compliance with all relevant statutory and non-statutory legislation/guidance and site specific health and safety and welfare policies, and ensure site is audit ready for external inspections at all times
  • Support the Account Management teams and other stakeholders in the delivery of all services within the scope of the role, and provide shoulder to shoulder technical service input as required in order to enhance the credibility of the Sodexo brand, providing guidance and expertise and promote the One Sodexo culture
  • Ensure that the site is statutory and mandatory (contractually) compliant at all times for services delivered within scope, and robust and rigorous means of recording this are maintained.
  • Coach and mentor members of the team delivering Sodexo services.

The Ideal Candidate

  • Previous experience of facilities Management
  • Ability to develop increasing individual effectiveness through leadership, motivation, communication, coaching and training
  • Experience of Managing teams
  • Financially astute and experienced in managing budgets
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients, and staff at all levels

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

Salary £40,000-£45,000
Frequency Annual
Job Reference SDX/TP/RF449388/KB
Contract Type Permanent – Full Time
Closing Date 22 January, 2018
Job Category Facilities Management
Business Unit UK Corporate Services
Location Banbury
Posted on 08 January, 2018

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