Regional Facilities Manager

Are you a Facilities Manager based within the South East? Are you self motivated, with excellent people skills and a great team player? Travis Perkins have a fantastic opportunity for a Regional Facilities Manager position to join their dedicated Facilities team.

This role is home based but the majority of your week will involve regular travel to the branches in your region

What you’ll do
Manage the day to day relationships with group wide colleagues within a large geographical region, taking ownership of hard and soft FM suppliers, ensuring contract and statutory compliance, delivering cost savings and performance objectives. 

Principal Accountabilities 

• Managing hard and soft services across a portfolio of c200 sites 

• Work with branch colleagues, ROMs & RD’s to ensure FM service is maintained to agreed standards & is in line with group policies and procedures. 

• Be the main point of contact between the FM team & branches within your region. This includes ‘out of hours’, being on call and responding/managing incidents/DR and escalations arising from the helpdesk. 

• Lead in delivering proactive Supplier Relationship Management, including indirect line management of between 40 and 50 supplier account managers.

• Develop and undertake supplier and building audits, compile asset condition reports to inform Planned Preventative Maintenance regimes and influence the Forward Maintenance Register for future capital planning. 

• Manage all aspects of revenue, capital and project budget including accruals, aged debt, queries and escalation and demonstrate value for money via monthly financial reporting.

• Management of high risk works e.g work at height ensuring compliance with group policies and procedures

What you’ll need to have:

• Be able to collate, interpret and interrogate detailed operational management information into transparent commercial conclusions and recommendations.

• Always providing first class customer service skills. 

• Proven supplier and contact management with negotiation experience

• A degree or similar experience in property or facilities management 

• Ability to manage large and complex budgets including future capital expenditure programmes

• Comfortable reading contracts in relation to cost modelling and SLA’s and have the ability to work with TP group teams to agree variations to contracts for goods and services

• Able to analyse and present large amounts of financial data with attention to detail and effectively communicate these at all levels to influence change

What’s in it for you?

Not Sure you Qualify? We’re driving to become a truly inclusive employer, where everyone in our Group feels safe, welcome and confident to be their authentic selves - you be you, it makes us, us, as we say. If you’re interested in this opportunity but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be just the right candidate for this or other roles with us.

You’ll be supported by some fantastic training and development and have the opportunity to learn, grow and develop across the Travis Perkins Group. 

We’ll also equip you with a benefits package that grows as you grow with the company:

• Competitive bonus

• Save-as-you-earn scheme

• Buy-as-you-earn scheme

• Contributory pension scheme

• Life assurance

• Colleague discount across a variety of Group businesses
  
  

A bit about us

As the largest distributor of building materials in the UK, Travis Perkins has been helping to build Britain for over 200 years.

With over 5 businesses, 16,000 colleagues and more than 1,200 branches, stores and sites around the UK we believe we have the best people and the best place to work. Everyone works hard together to deliver results, but most importantly, have some fun along the way!

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