General Manager - Facilities Management

Skanska Building Services are a leading facilities management company dedicated to delivering exceptional services to our clients. With a focus on both hard and soft FM solutions, we are committed to excellence in every aspect of our operations. We specialize in managing facilities across various sectors, ensuring efficiency, sustainability, and client satisfaction.

Position Overview & Purpose
The Facilities Management General Manager can be based in London , Watford or one of our Southern locations and will involve working on one of our prestigious contracts in the South UK , you will be leading and supporting FM growth, work winning and mobilisations.

In the initial phases of employment this will be by leading the strategic continuous improvement of the management and delivery of existing term projects and programmes alongside the existing Skanska Building Services portfolio leads, as well as specific projects to ensure the development of FM technology and systems, supply chain partnerships, productivity and procedures as necessary.

Once embedded within the business and existing projects the role will also require the supporting of work winning, bidding and mobilisations, or alternatively taking the lead of existing contracts to facilitate business growth and the progression of incumbent leaders.

Additional responsibilities will encompass working in collaboration with the wider Skanska FM portfolio to drive continuity, share best practice and add value to clients and customers.

What you'll do as a Facilities Management General Manager :
• Full profit and accountability for projects. Responsible for the delivery of Hard and potentially soft Services as well as an overview of project works. Annual revenues between £5 &£10m p.a.
• Lead and develop operations, technical compliance, Health & Safety, Quality and Environmental management.
• Leverage experience of: Hard Facilities Management; productivity; profitability improvement; small works; lifecycle works; cultural improvement and change; management information and data rationalisation; soft and full mobilisation - to improve contract delivery in support of incumbent teams and deliver work winning.
• To fully understand the contract operationally and commercially and set commensurate targets. Accurately report progress each month,

What you’ll bring to the role:
• A strong leader, operationally, commercially and financially astute, with the ability to form positive leadership and clear direction to a wide-ranging team.
• An experienced operations background with at least 2 years’ experience managing contract P&L, projects service delivery, and with experience of at least 5 significant FM contract mobilisations.
• Likely to hold a further professional qualification.
• Experience of a breadth of FM sectors and markets.
• Holding, having previously held, or able to hold SC security status.

Equal opportunities
We thrive through embracing differences, whether they be social backgrounds, ethnicity, disability, gender identity or expression, age, religion, sexual orientation and any other protected characteristic – we know that diversity opens a rich potential for new ways of thinking, helping us to build successful and high-performing teams. We call it Naturally Skanska.

Reasonable adjustments
We would like you to perform at your best at every stage of our recruitment process. Please contact us if you require any adjustments that would support you throughout your application.

More information about the role
Please note this is an advert for our job vacancy, and therefore may not be inclusive of all assigned duties, responsibilities, or aspects of the role described, and may be amended at any time at the sole discretion of Skanska.
Closing date
The closing date for this vacancy may be subject to change any time at the sole discretion of the business.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:
• Company car
• Company pension
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Bonus
• On-site parking
• Private medical insurance