Skip to content
Working at Sodexo - engineer fixing large machinery

Our vacancies

Search Jobs  

Mobilisation and Transformation Director

Please Note: The application deadline for this job has now passed.

Job Introduction

Sodexo are keen to speak with experienced Transformation professionals to lead the strategic and operational integration of a new contract for The University of Grrenwich. You’ll lead the process through transition period from mobilisation through to stabilisation and steady state.

Joining us for an initial 12 month fixed term contract you will  act as the primary representative of Sodexo for new site mobilisation, managing the mobilisation plan alongside Service Operations and the Partnership Director.

Role Responsibility

  • To liaise with both technical and functional experts from within Sodexo to ensure that exemplary facilities services are provided at all sites delivering Hard, Soft and Technical based activities to sites.
  • To support the on-site team and client in change programmes
  • To liaise effectively with the Partnership Director who is responsible for operations to ensure operational models integrate
  • Ensure a safe, compliant environment for our teams and customers by ensuring processes are followed and gaps identified and escalated to resolution.
  • Manage delivery through service teams whilst promoting an ethos of team work to instil a culture of continuous improvement and service excellence.
  • To ensure on-site teams are delivering against Key Performance Indicators and client contract expectations
  • Foster long term profitable relationships with customer  to maintain existing business and identify new business opportunities by delivering operational excellence

The Ideal Candidate

Essential

  • Proven experience in managing large mobilisations and transformations
  • Proven operational knowledge, skills and experience in managing multi-site/multi service operations
  • Management of large and diverse teams
  • Manage multiple workloads and shifting priorities
  • Ability to interpret and utilise complex and varied financial and commercial information
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to communicate effectively with customers, clients and employees at all levels
  • Achieve set, standards and operate to performance criteria; for example health and safety, hygiene
  • Self-motivated and able to work on own initiative within a team environment

Desirable

  • NEBOSH managing safely qualification
  • Experience in the technical services and soft services delivery
  • Experience of the NEC4 contract

Package Description

As part of our commitment to improving the quality of life for our employees, Sodexo offers a Flexible Benefits Scheme, allowing you to tailor a reward package to suit your needs but includes a technology scheme, private dental insurance, travel insurance, gym membership, Gourmet card, private medical insurance and the ability to purchase or sell annual leave. We also have a Sodexo Discount scheme, which offers employees and their friends and family the opportunity to benefit from over 1,200 discounts from top retailers both online and in-store. Plus bonus incentive.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs some 36,000 employees to deliver integrated facilities management services to clients at over 2,000 locations in the energy, 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.

At Sodexo we are committed to a leading role in promoting equality opportunities and valuing diversity and inclusion. We seek to create a work environment based on mutual respect for all individuals, building a culture that appreciates and values the experiences and skills brought by each person to benefit our organisation and work hard to ensure that all people, whatever their race, colour, sex, gender identity  disability, nationality, national or ethnic origin, religion or belief, marital/partnership or family status, sexual orientation, age, social class, educational background, employment status, working pattern, are welcome to and included within our organisation. 

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

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.

 

This website is using cookies to improve your browsing experience. If you navigate to another page without changing the settings bellow you consent to this. Read more about cookies.