Regional Facilities Manager

Are you a customer service focused Regional Facilities Manager, looking for a new challenge?

Do you have multi site facilities management experience and want to work in a role where relationship management and collaboration is key to success?

Our client is an AIM listed, international veterinary services provider. Within this regional Facilities Manager role you will have the opportunity to work for a client side real estate team where team work and collaboration is highly encouraged. You will be working for a growing and highly successful organisation and be responsible for the FM service delivery for a regional portfolio of veterinary practices, hospitals and laboratories.

In addition to a salary of £53,000 you will also be given a wealth of benefits such as:

• Company car (£5670 per year)
• 6.6 weeks of holiday + the option to buy or sell further holiday
• Pension scheme matched up to 6%
• Enhanced maternity, paternity, adoption leave
• Private health care scheme
• Gym membership schemes
• Highly discounted veterinary care and products

Within this Regional Facilities Manager role you will be responsible for managing the hard services FM delivery across c100 properties in the South East of England. You will be working on a hybrid basic, with a likely week constructed between a mixture of home working and face to face meetings in your practices across your region. Your Regional Facilities Manager role requires a high level of customer facing skills and stake holder engagement to ensure FM is exceptionally delivered across your region.

Your Regional Facilities Manager role will include:

• Managing the overall facilities management service delivery across a mixed portfolio, working closely with colleagues across the wider Property department and the H&S team to ensure it is joined up, meets requirements and that any issues are resolved quickly
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders and with the Supplier and Contractor base to positively influence outcomes and enable great service provision
• Support the development of appropriate technical policies, standards, and guidance
• Review the regional and local supplier and contractor base, and their associated performance, and propose solutions to improve
• Highlight commercial opportunities that continuously add value.
• Drive compliance with the requirements of Health and Safety, relevant legislation and policies and procedures for all property related issues.
• Proactively share best practice across the facilities team, driving a best-in-class mentality
• Externally network and remain abreast of key facts that present as an opportunity or challenge for the business

To be successful in this Regional Facilities Manager role we are looking for:

• Experience of working in a fast paced, customer centric, multi-site Facilities Management role previously. Previous Multi Site experience of Facilities Management for at least 50 properties is essential to this role.
• Experienced in stakeholder and customer management with well-developed interpersonal and communication skills, with an ability to influence other managers and to manage relationships both internally and with suppliers and 3rd parties
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Experience of hard services FM management or contractor management is ideal, although a technical background is not necessary
• Comfortable working at pace, under pressure and with analytical and goal-oriented targets
• Able to prioritise and manage a large and varied workload with high levels of organisation skills
• Able to evidence that they take time to keep up to date with developments in Compliance
• Full driving licence essential

If you are a Regional Facilities Manager who thrives on team work, and offering high levels of customer service to a diverse property portfolio then this is the role for you! Ideally you should be living around the Berkshire / Surrey / Kent / Hampshire / Sussex area to be able to easily access your property portfolio in the South East. Please get in touch and apply so as not to miss out!