General Services Manager/ Site Lead (Fixed Term)

Job Introduction

Sodexo Corporate Services are recruiting a General Services Manager on a Fixed Term Contract at our prestigious client site in Cork.

As General Services Manager, you will provide direction and expertise to the operation & delivery of facilities management soft services, to include, cleaning, security & particularly catering services.

You will be a strong leader who is able to develop and motive teams.

Role Responsibility

• Delivering on Financial and Operational Targets – Ensuring costs and revenues are closely managed over the course of the financial years, and provide the means to respond rapidly to any threats to financial performance.
• Transformation  – Overall responsibility for the transformation of projects, to include data gathering, planning and implementing changes as necessary
• Motivate/ lead your team to ensure their objectives are achieved and delivered.
• Ensure delivery against Key Performance Indicators, both qualitative and quantitative results.
• Maintain long term relationships with Clients ensuring /delivering operational excellence.
• Leading the Contract – Providing confident, visible leadership, ensuring standards are set and delivered, talent and resources are utilized optimally. 
• Team Management – Selecting, managing, engaging and developing highly performing and diverse operating teams with right skills and capabilities.
• Communication – Be a strong communicator effectively communicating with your Management team on a formal and structured basis to ensure that information is cascaded.
• People Management – Ensure your team meets their targets and objectives. If objectives are not met performance

The Ideal Candidate

• Proven track record managing large P&L – ability to budget forecast & understand contracts
• Experience in Managing & Operating in the Soft service industry, Inc. a high level of competency in managing a large catering facility (hospitality industry).
• Strong communication, and negotiation skills
• Strong ability to increase individual effectiveness through leadership, motivation, communication, coaching and training.
• Ability to solve problems analytically, develop opportunities and implement innovative solutions/approaches.
• Excellent client relationship management
• Excellent time management and organizational skills.
• Experience working in a standards/compliance environment
• Ability to set high standards, achievable through striving for continuous improvement
• Ability to act on own initiative
   

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 35,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the corporate, healthcare, education, leisure, defence and justice sectors. With an annual turnover of over £1bn, we provide everything from catering, cleaning and reception to security, laboratory and grounds maintenance services, enabling our clients to focus on their core business.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process