Project Manager

Job Introduction

Job Title: Project Manager 

Location: No Fixed Location

Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent - 40 hours per week

Salary: Competitive Salary plus bonus and Sodexo benefits

Role Purpose

The Project Managerleads one of Sodexo’s South Cluster operations, holding full accountability foroperational delivery, client satisfaction, and financial performance. This roleensures service excellence, compliance, and innovation across multiple sites,acting as the primary representative for our client and a key memberof the Allenby Management Team.

Key Responsibilities

Leadership & Strategy

• Provide strategic and operational leadership across a South Cluster.
• Deliver against contractual, financial, and performance objectives.
• Foster a culture of collaboration, safety, and continuous improvement.

Client & Stakeholder Management

• Act as the main liaison with Unilever, maintaining strong, strategic relationships.
• Ensure all services meet SLAs, KPIs, and contractual standards.
• Represent Sodexo professionally at senior client and stakeholder meetings.

Operational & Financial Performance

• Oversee integrated FM service delivery, ensuring compliance and operational excellence.
• Manage budgets, P&L, and forecasting to achieve financial targets.
• Drive year-on-year improvement in health, safety, environment, and client satisfaction metrics.

People Leadership

• Lead, coach, and develop a regional management team.
• Shape and execute people plans to support growth and succession.
• Champion a high-performance culture aligned with Sodexo’s values.

Risk & Compliance

• Ensure full compliance with health, safety, and governance standards.
• Manage contractual changes, mitigate risks, and identify commercial opportunities.

Key Metrics

• Revenue growth and EBIT delivery
• Client satisfaction and retention
• HSE performance and compliance
• Operational efficiency and labour productivity

Person Specification

Essential

• Proven leadership in large-scale operations or project management (FM, catering, or related services).
• Strong commercial acumen with P&L accountability (>€10m turnover).
• Excellent client relationship and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience leading teams through change in complex environments.
• Degree or equivalent professional experience.

Desirable

• Experience in the Defence sector or large project environments.
• Background in matrix organisations or multi-site operations.

Additional Information

• Occasional travel and flexibility in working hours are required.
• Must comply with Sodexo and client policies on safety, ethics, and performance.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chanceto be part of something greater. 

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. 

Act with purpose and have an impact through youreveryday actions.

Thrive in your own way. 

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefitsfor our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support 
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular big-brand retailers
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Irelands enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo:

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better every dayfor everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services thatimprove the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over100million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Foodand FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & HomeServices.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer. Weare a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from peoplewith a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with ourEmployee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, SodexoDisability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed tochanging attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have thechance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a DisabilityConfident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet theminimum selection criteria for the job.

Ready to be part of somethinggreater? 

Belong in a team,thrive in service. 

Sodexo reserves the right to closethis advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications