General Services Manager - Immediate Start

We are looking to hire a focused General Services Manager to join our dynamic team at Sodexo Group in Cork.
Growing your career as a Full Time General Services Manager is an incredible opportunity to develop useful skills.
If you are strong in critical thinking, presentation and have the right mindset for the job, then apply for the position of General Services Manager at Sodexo Group today!

As a GSM you’ll be responsible for the day-to-day delivery of services on site covering all aspects of catering, cleaning and sub-contractors of this 1m + contract. You’ll lead and develop an established and supportive team to ensure our client receives services of the highest standard and continually look to implement new initiatives to enhance our offering. You’ll develop and build relationships across the site, working collaboratively and addressing any concerns with a proactive and positive approach.

A great opportunity for an experienced people manager with a background in the service industry looking for a role that offers development and growth with the potential to progress.

Role Responsibility

• Develop strong relationships with key stakeholders addressing any performance or operational issues.
• Lead, develop, manage, and motivate a high performing team to the agreed standards ensuring that the Client receives services of the highest quality.
• To implement and maintain business improvement, process standardisation and improvement in all areas.
• Provide strategic leadership to the site and contract to deliver significant business growth.
• Delivery of business targets and maximising the profitability of the contract and deliver the required results.
• Ensure forecasts are completed and track performance against budget taking appropriate actions to manage P&L in line with contract to maximise profit and control of costs.
• Measure KPI’s and service standards against agreed and obligated levels.
• Ensure a safe, compliant environment for our teams and customers by ensuring processes are followed and gaps identified and escalated to resolution.
• Management of Health, Safety and Environmental Legislation relating to the building portfolio ensuring that: all statutory requirements and Sodexo policies and process are met; all associated records are maintained up to date; and with all relevant staff are trained and aware in its requirements and operation.
• Foster and set goals that drive the QEHS culture for staff towards proactive rather than reactive systems.
• To work collaboratively with all central teams/SME’s to ensure a standardised, consistent and compliant approach is implemented in all service lines across all sites within micro region whilst delivering a fully compliant operation to our client.

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven experience in managing a large site with multi-disciplined teams.
• Experienced gained from within the service, catering, engineering or facilities management field
• Able to manage difficult situation and deliver against both Sodexo and our client’s expectations
• Development of commercially viable solutions
• Ability to manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities in a fast passed dynamic environment.
• Can 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.
• Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment.
• Proven track record of initiating and leading demanding business change programmes.
• Excellent communication, negotiating, influencing, and facilitating skills.
• Challenges the status-quo, innovative, willingness and with a ‘can do & improve’ attitude.
• Experience of Hard and Soft FM contracts.
• Facilities, Engineering, Technical or Business qualification.
• Experience in a pharmaceutical industry or a large Blue-Chip company.

Package Description

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles ); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx ); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage ) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

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

Location Little Island, Cork, Republic of Ireland

Benefits of working as a General Services Manager in Cork:

● Company offers great benefits
● Advancement opportunities
● Advantageous package