Account Director
Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
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Job summary
Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services is seeking an Account Director for the Oxford Brookes University contract. You will lead strategic client relationships, oversee all services on the OBU estate, and drive commercial performance while aligning with safety, sustainability, and student experience goals.
You will manage multi-disciplinary teams, governance, and risk, ensuring contract profitability and ongoing service improvements in a complex, high-profile university environment.
Qualifications
- Significant experience in a senior account/operations leadership role.
- Proven track record managing large, multi-service facilities contracts.
- Strong client leadership, governance, and commercial acumen.
Responsibilities
- Lead strategic client leadership for Oxford Brookes University contract.
- Oversee contracted services across the OBU estate and ensure compliance.
- Drive profitability, budgeting, and growth opportunities within the account.
- Represent client interests in governance meetings and audits.
- Develop high-performing teams and foster continuous improvement.
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Job description
The Account Director is responsible for the strategic leadership, operational delivery, commercial performance, and continuous improvement of all services delivered across the Oxford Brookes University contract.
The Account Director is responsible for the strategic leadership, operational delivery, commercial performance, and continuous improvement of all services delivered across the Oxford Brookes University contract.
As the senior Mitie representative for the account, the Account Director will build and maintain strong client relationships, ensuring services consistently exceed expectations while supporting the University's objectives for safety, sustainability, student experience, and operational excellence.
The role carries full accountability for contract performance, growth, compliance, and the leadership of multi-disciplinary teams across the OBU estate.
The Account Director is there to act as the client's primary Head of Security, representing their security interests across key stakeholder meetings, audits, and governance forums.
- Act as the senior point of contact for Oxford Brookes University senior stakeholders.
- Develop and maintain trusted partnerships with key client representatives.
- Create and deliver a long-term strategic account plan aligned to client objectives and Mitie business goals.
- Lead governance meetings, executive reviews, and contractual performance discussions.
- Identify opportunities to enhance service delivery, innovation, and value creation.
- Provide strategic oversight of all contracted services across the OBU estate.
- Ensure services are delivered safely, effectively, and in line with contractual obligations.
- Drive a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Oversee performance against all KPIs, SLAs, and contractual commitments.
- Ensure risks are identified, managed, and escalated appropriately.
- Hold full responsibility for account P&L performance.
- Deliver contract profitability through effective budget management and cost control.
- Identify growth opportunities, contract variations, and additional service opportunities.
- Lead commercial negotiations in conjunction with operational and commercial teams.
- Ensure accurate forecasting, reporting, and financial governance.
- Establish effective relationships with university leadership teams and key stakeholders.
- Act as a trusted advisor on operational delivery, service improvements, compliance, and innovation.
- Ensure customer satisfaction remains a primary focus throughout the contract lifecycle.
- Support contract retention and future growth opportunities.
- Ensure full compliance with statutory, contractual, and company requirements.
- Maintain robust governance frameworks across the account.
- Lead health, safety, environmental, and quality compliance activities.
- Ensure audit compliance and corrective actions are completed.
- Promote a risk-based approach to service delivery and operational decision making.
- Lead, motivate, and develop a high-performing management team.
- Create a culture focused on accountability, engagement, inclusion, and development.
- Drive employee engagement, succession planning, and talent development.
- Ensure training compliance and professional development across all service lines.
- Champion Mitie values and behaviours throughout the contract.
- Encourage innovative solutions that improve performance, efficiency, and customer experience.
- Leverage technology, data analytics, and reporting tools to support decision making.
- Support sustainability initiatives aligned to Oxford Brookes University's environmental objectives.
- Share best practice across the wider Mitie business.
- Contract profitability and budget adherence.
- Client satisfaction and relationship management.
- Retention and growth of the contract.
- Achievement of contractual KPIs and SLAs.
- Health & Safety performance.
- Compliance and governance audit results.
- Employee engagement and retention.
- Delivery of innovation and continuous improvement initiatives.
- Significant experience in an Account Director, Senior Operations Director, or equivalent leadership role.
- Proven success managing large, complex, multi-service contracts.
- Strong client relationship management skills at executive level.
- Demonstrable experience of leading large operational teams.
- Excellent commercial and financial acumen, including P&L management.
- Strong understanding of contractual governance and compliance.
- Ability to influence and engage stakeholders at all levels.
- Excellent communication, leadership, and strategic planning skills.
- Experience within Higher Education, Campus Environments Security, or Integrated Facilities Management.
- NEBOSH, IOSH, or equivalent Health & Safety qualification.
- Experience driving sustainability and ESG initiatives.
- Degree level qualification or equivalent professional experience.
- Strategic and commercially focused.
- Strong relationship builder.
- Results driven and accountable.
- Resilient and adaptable.
- Innovative thinker.
- Excellent communicator.
- Strong decision-maker with high levels of integrity.
- Passionate about developing people and creating high-performing teams.
- Demonstrate visible leadership in health, safety, and wellbeing.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant legislation and company policies.
- Lead accident prevention initiatives and risk management processes.
- Ensure all incidents are investigated and appropriate actions implemented.
- Support a positive safety culture across the contract.
- Ensure compliance with Mitie information security policies and procedures.
- Proactively identify and report information security risks.
- Protect client, employee, and company data at all times.
- Ensure all security incidents are reported and managed appropriately.
Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.
When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!
We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).
We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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