Facilities Manager

Facilities Manager

This role is responsible for managing all aspects of operational delivery and client relationships for the client site. You will have full responsibility for any facilities and workplace services, your client's satisfaction and service experience, and their commercial performance. You will become the heartbeat of the office, living and breathing the client's core values, and striving to achieve their mission throughout the office.

What will you be doing?

• Be on-site five days per week in Downtown Durham.
• Occasional weekend, after, or before normal business hours work.
• Delivering a full-service operation that feels like a 5-star hotel experience.
• Creating a welcoming and collaborative workplace through proactive management and by building an outstanding relationship with all key stakeholders.
• Proactively ensuring the workplace is fully operational, and processes are running smoothly.
• Retaining talent through an office environment that is inclusive, vibrant, and has excellent service.
• Ensuring all hard and soft facilities services are delivered to specification and planned / reactive activities meet SLEs and agreed process, cost, and reporting requirements. Making interventions as required.
• Creating excellent relationships with outsources or client's suppliers, driving performance, communication, and motivation.
• Managing landlord services and third party / tenant relationships, ensuring service charge obligations are met.
• Supporting incident management: taking ownership for client communication, services providers' response, and any incident reports / handover notes.
• Providing accurate and useful monthly / quarterly internal / external reporting.
• Responsibility for commercial activity on your portfolio: reviewing and scrutinising costs, assessing value, need, and priority. Seeking approval from clients for recharges with confidence and understanding.
• Ensuring adherence to all regulatory compliance and EH&S requirements.
• Ordering items for client use and Instant use.
• Logging helpdesk jobs and providing reactive and planned reporting - ensuring follow up and proactive management of jobs.
• Liaising with suppliers and members of the broader outsourced team including cleaning and maintenance teams.
• Undertaking regular quality checks / audits and ensuring customer satisfaction.
• Any other ad hoc duties required supporting the employee journey and delivery services.
• Event management: you will play a key role in supporting and organizing companywide events and townhalls.

What experience are we looking for?

• Experience with hospitality background is preferred.
• Experience with facilities management is required.
• Experience in managing effective and positive relationships with outsourced suppliers.
• Previous incident/safety management experience would be preferred.
• Experience creating operational reports for external stakeholders: experience in Excel and Power Point are required.
• Experience with finance systems is preferred.
• Self-motivated and driven with a "yes" mentality: keen to drive improvement.

What skills do you require?

• Aligned with the following: play to win, help each other grow, solve it together, own your outcome.
• A natural and confident communicator, with exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to build relationships at all levels.
• Superior client management skills, with an awareness of account management principles.
• An enthusiastic, personal, and proactive approach to service delivery and customer satisfaction.

What's in it for you?

• Competitive pay scales reviewed annually
• Discretionary annual company bonus
• Private healthcare and life cover
• Reward Gateway (discounts!)
• Wellbeing Centre
• Global Employee Assistance Program
• Brilliant colleague recognition scheme, with quarterly and annual 'Let's Celebrate' awards (with great prizes!)
• Generous referral scheme
• Laptop / tech provided
  
  

At The Instant Group, we prioritise our people and our clients. We are committed to fostering diversity, equality, and inclusion, providing equal opportunities in all aspects of employment. Our goal is a workforce that truly reflects society and our customers, creating an environment where every employee feels respected and empowered. When hiring or promoting from within, we see diverse experiences from a variety of backgrounds and welcome all applications regardless of age, gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, disability status or any other dimensions of diversity.