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Workforce Management Regional Lead (Deployment Manager/Lean/Six Sigma)

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

Job Introduction

Due to business growth we are looking to recruit a Workforce Management Support Manager on a fixed term contract running to August 2021 to join our dynamic team. We can be flexible on your home location as you would spend 2 days at home and 3 days at a site (throughout the UK) so you must be flexible to travel and stay overnight when business needs dictate.

As WFM Support Manager you will be responsible for providing business improvement support across all UK&I segments. This includes contract management, workforce management and operational excellence. The role involves participation in business improvement activities within bidding, mobilisation and stabilisation. Supporting the deployment of the WFM Improvement Management Programme and subsequent profit and performance improvement plans.

The function will support the company’s strategic ambition of Improving our Competitiveness by driving process and behaviour that will have a positive impact on profit and revenues. Training and active support activities across all segments to ensure financial and operational success.

This role would ideally suit a Site Manager with experience of IFM, or technical, soft and food services. You must have experience of delivering results as the WFM project is tasked with delivering significant savings and productivity improvements in this role. This is a challenging yet exciting and varied role, you will work with all segments across all services.

The role offers a salary up to £33,700, company car.

 

Role Responsibility

  • Supports Contract Management and Operational Excellence reviews in contracts as per the agreed plan with segments
  • Delivers training and on site deployment of workforce management systems
  •  Ensures confidentiality of materials and information
  •  Provide operational support to mobilisations and sales bids as directed
  • Share financial improvement initiatives with the wider community of Sodexo as part of the BIGS team
  • Work collectively to achieve business objectives whilst promoting collaboration, co-ordination and teamwork
  • Promote and support workplace diversity
  •  Assesses business data necessary to support strategic decision making with particular emphasis on as-sessing revenue and profitability
  • Work in partnership with contract L&D teams and SMEs to build segment capability in workforce management through continued up-skilling of management teams, assisting in the delivery of comprehensive operational training on workforce management processes
  • Undertake, under direction, an audit programme on compliance with workforce management processes

The Ideal Candidate

Essential:

  • Experience of managing soft, or hard Facilities Management
  • Good knowledge of techniques for planning, monitoring and controlling programmes, including risk management, budget and resource allocation procedures
  • Good communication and organisational skills
  • Tenacity so as to drive the delivery of outcomes in challenging client / organisational environments
  • Ability to find innovative ways of solving &/or pre-empting problems
  • Excellent working knowledge of Microsoft office including MS Project; MS Excel and MS Word
  • Excellent interpersonal skills 
  • Ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with all key stakeholders
  • Driving licence and flexibility to travel as per business demands

Desirable

  • Working knowledge of Integrated Facilities Management
  • Experience of inputting to / supporting / leading project management activity

Package Description

£33,700 plus company car

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 age, disability, gender, transgender, marital or family status, race or ethnicity, religious belief of sexual orientation are welcome to and included within our 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

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