Workplace Transformation Lead

Job Introduction

A fantastic opportunity has arisen for an established Workplace Transformation Lead to join our team.

As a Workplace Transformation lead you will function in an Operational Excellence capacity during the service design process for the Discovery Centre, Cambridge and the Cambridge Campus as a whole.

You will benchmark service design against “what good looks like” in Sodexo, AZ and the industry and optimize new operational processes by applying lean and innovative methods.

While leading the Continuous Improvement projects through a process of pilots and trials within the interim estate, from conception to delivery and benefit analysis.

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

Role Responsibility

• ·Create and co-create the Facilities Management (FM) solutions for our Client’s new R&D Building
• ·Using existing data from our Cambridge Campus, analyse and identify opportunities for improvements
• ·Use data to “tell the story” as part of business/service improvement proposals
• ·Develop the solutions documentation and presentation material to an extremely high standard
• ·Research and review industry standards for FM service delivery
• ·Present new initiatives within internal Sodexo and Client meetings, advising “what good looks like and the tangible benefits they could expect”
• ·Collaborate with onsite teams where pilots and trials are to be implemented to ensure team members are engaged, updating the FM Operational Readiness Project Manager of project status
• ·Reviewing pilots and trials in line with success criteria and presenting results back to Project Manager
• ·Ensure all SHE requirements as part of pilots and trials projects have been assessed
• ·Work with Sodexo SMEs (both on contract and within Centralised team) to ensure we are delivering “Best in Class”
• ·Ensure that the vision of sustainability is embedded into all projects
• ·Support with other project work as appropriate
• Delivering pilot and trials to the agreed schedule
• Managing positive relationships with all key stakeholders
• Analysing and reviewing data in existing services as well as an output to pilots and trials
• Be an ambassador to Sodexo’s 3 values “Service Spirit, Team Spirit and Spirit of Progress”

The Ideal Candidate

• Highly organised with an acute attention to detail
• Steeped in the services and industry (desirable)
• Bright, enthusiastic and intelligent
• High people skills that can allow them to thrive in a creative, fast paced and agile culture
• Logical, with practical problem-solving abilities
• Immaculate presentation skills (i.e. presenting to audiences and quality of documents)
• Creative and innovative
• Able to prioritise own workload and manage timelines in order to meet project deadlines
• IT Literate

Package Description

£38,000 - £42,000 Depending on Experience

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.