Area Manager

Kindred; West of England; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 33,000; Full time

Job summary

Kindred is seeking a Regional Manager to lead on-site teams across multiple locations in the Bristol area. You will drive operational excellence, manage budgets, and build strong client relationships while maintaining Kindred’s high service standards.

The role requires travel to sites, leadership experience, and a focus on health and safety. You’ll recruit, coach, and develop your teams to deliver outstanding results in a fast-paced facilities management environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent communication and people management skills.
• Strong leadership and motivational skills with the ability to forward plan and influence at a senior level.
• Experience with managing budgets.
• Hold a full driving licence and be able to travel to sites.
• Basic Excel, Word & Outlook skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence and maximise contract profitability by effectively leading and motivating your on-site teams.
• Manage financial performance by diligently adhering to budget allocations.
• Cultivate and nurture robust client relationships, ensuring exceptional satisfaction levels.
• Uphold and elevate the highest standards of service delivery across all sites.
• Recruit, onboard, and continuously coach your site teams, fostering their professional growth and performance.
• Conduct thorough monthly quality audits to guarantee consistent adherence to our high standards.
• Support the Operations Manager by undertaking diverse projects and reports, contributing to strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate regular contract and specification review meetings with clients, ensuring alignment and transparency.
• Champion Health & Safety, ensuring full compliance with all procedures and legislation.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement, cost efficiencies, and account expansion.
• Actively pursue and secure opportunities to introduce and deliver additional services to clients.

Skills

Communication

People management

Leadership

Budget management

Driving licence

Excel/Outlook basics

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

Job description

At Kindred, we believe that truly exceptional service begins with our people, extends to our community, and respects our environment. We are dedicated to cultivating a positive, inclusive, and supportive environment where every individual can thrive. As an equal opportunities employer, we are committed to giving full and fair consideration to all applicants, celebrating diversity without discrimination based on age, disability, ethnicity, sexual orientation, sex, gender reassignment, socio-economic background, religion or belief, marriage and civil partnerships, or pregnancy and maternity.

We are seeking a dynamic and inspiring Regional Manager to join our team. In this pivotal role, you will lead and empower a dedicated team of supervisors and operatives, driving operational excellence across multiple sites. You will ensure that all locations consistently meet and exceed Kindred’s renowned cleaning standards, fostering a culture of high performance and client satisfaction. Your leadership will be crucial in maintaining our reputation for quality and reliability.

Please note: The successful applicant will be required to undertake an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check to our satisfaction, ensuring compliance with our safeguarding policies for working on our sites.

About The Role

What You’ll Deliver: Key Responsibilities

• Drive operational excellence and maximise contract profitability by effectively leading and motivating your on-site teams.
• Manage financial performance by diligently adhering to budget allocations.
• Cultivate and nurture robust client relationships, ensuring exceptional satisfaction levels.
• Uphold and elevate the highest standards of service delivery across all sites.
• Recruit, onboard, and continuously coach your site teams, fostering their professional growth and performance.
• Conduct thorough monthly quality audits to guarantee consistent adherence to our high standards.
• Support the Operations Manager by undertaking diverse projects and reports, contributing to strategic initiatives.
• Facilitate regular contract and specification review meetings with clients, ensuring alignment and transparency.
• Champion Health & Safety, ensuring full compliance with all procedures and legislation.
• Proactively identify and implement opportunities for continuous improvement, cost efficiencies, and account expansion.
• Actively pursue and secure opportunities to introduce and deliver additional services to clients.

Required Criteria

• Excellent communication and people management skills
• Strong leadership and motivational skills, with the ability to forward plan, work under pressure and influence at a senior level
• Experience with managing budgets
• Passionate, flexible, trustworthy, and innovative.
• Hold a full driving license and be able to travel to sites
• Basic Excel, Word & Outlook skills

Desired Criteria

• Appropriate professional qualifications and/or memberships. For example, any British Institute of Cleaning Science (BICSc), Institution of Occupational Safety & Health (IOSH) or National Examination Board in Occupational Safety & Heath (NEBOSH) memberships, qualifications, or specific course attendance.
• Experience working with education
• Working knowledge of Health and Safety systems in the cleaning industry

About The Company

As a rapidly growing and award-winning facilities management company, we’re proud to employ more than 2,500 people across the UK. The size and scale of our organisation mean we offer a wide variety of roles to suit different skills and ambitions. These range from Cleaning Operatives, Supervisors and Regional Managers in our Operations teams to opportunities in Finance, Payroll, Sales, Marketing and more.

If Kindred sounds like the right place for you, explore our current vacancies below and start your journey with us today.

Company Culture

At Kindred, our people are the heart of our business. Guided by our core values of Making Connections, Being Bold, Behaving with Integrity, and Community Spirit, we’ve built a culture that thrives on respect, inclusivity, open communication and collaboration. We’re looking for individuals who want to be part of an ambitious and expanding business, who value teamwork, and who share our commitment to giving back to the communities we serve and protecting the planet. You’ll have access to tailored training, development opportunities, and recognition for going above and beyond. We celebrate our people and their achievements at every step.

Company Benefits

• Employee development programs
• Competitive salary
• Wellbeing Scheme
• Work With Charities
• Employee of the Month
• Culture of recognition
• On the job learning
• Progression opportunities

£28,000.00 - £33,000.00 per year

Area Manager • City of Bristol, Bristol, GB