Working Pattern: Monday to Friday. Requirement to be flexible to meet needs of business.
To provide strategic and hands-on leadership across the contract, ensuring excellent operational delivery, strong people leadership, and a consistently outstanding experience for clients and workplace users.
Key Responsibilities:
Operational & Contract Leadership:
- Provide visible, hands-on leadership across all aspects of contract delivery, with an active presence in operations to ensure service excellence and consistency.
- Hold full budgetary, commercial and operational accountability for the contract, ensuring financial performance aligns with service quality and client expectations.
- Ensure all services are delivered in full compliance with statutory requirements, KPIs and SLAs, proactively addressing risks and operational challenges.
- Maintain oversight of critical assets, engineering frameworks and service delivery models to protect, optimise and enhance client assets.
People Management & Development
- Lead, develop and motivate a multi-disciplinary management and frontline team, fostering high engagement, capability growth and succession planning.
- Embed a strong performance culture through clear objectives, regular coaching, feedback and development planning at all levels.
- Lead by example in promoting a culture of safety, wellbeing, inclusiveness, diversity and opportunity across the contract.
- Ensure training, competence and development plans are aligned to operational needs, future capability requirements and client expectations.
Client & Workplace User Experience
- Own senior client relationships, acting as a trusted partner and escalation point while driving a proactive, solution-focused approach.
- Champion the end-to-end client and workplace user experience, ensuring services are intuitive, responsive and aligned to how people use the office environment.
- Work closely with client stakeholders to understand evolving needs and translate these into operational service improvements.
- Use insights, feedback and data to continuously enhance service outcomes and user satisfaction.
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Embed a robust Continuous Improvement culture, encouraging innovation and operational excellence that delivers tangible value for both client and business.
- Drive service optimisation through leading-edge technology, process improvement and digital solutions.
- Lead and oversee capital projects, ensuring seamless integration with live operations and a strong focus on sustainability, renewable initiatives and value for money.
Key Hiring Criteria:
- Proven experience in a senior National Account Manager/Account Director or Contract Director role within an FM service provider, ideally across cleaning, sanitation and/or broader soft services.
- Demonstrable experience of hands-on operational leadership, with the ability to balance strategic oversight and day-to-day service performance.
- Strong track record in people management, including developing leaders, managing large delivery teams and driving engagement and performance.
- Solid understanding of critical environments, asset management, capital project delivery and energy management services.
- Excellent commercial and financial acumen, with experience managing complex budgets and delivering profitable contracts.
- Highly effective communicator with strong presentation skills, able to engage credibly with senior clients, end users and operational teams.
- Collaborative and solutions-focused leadership style, with a genuine commitment to delivering exceptional client and workplace user experiences