Facilities Manager

Kantar Group Limited; London; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading data, insights, and consulting company is seeking an Office Manager to ensure the smooth operation of the office in London. The role involves managing staff, overseeing facilities, and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations. The ideal candidate will have experience in office management and excellent communication skills, contributing to a collaborative work environment with opportunities for growth.

Benefits

25 days annual leave

Private Medical Insurance

Flexible benefits

Extensive training

Qualifications

• Proven experience as an Office Manager or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of facilities management operations.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Overseeing daily tasks and implementing office policies.
• Managing office budget and handling correspondence.
• Acting as a point of contact for various departments.

Skills

Project Management

Leadership

Communication

Analytical Skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management or related field

Tools

MS Office

Facilities Management Software - CAFM

Job description

time left to apply End Date: August 8, 2025 (14 days left to apply)

job requisition id R096031

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Worldpanel provides brands and retailers with a unique, 360-degree understanding of consumer behaviour across the globe. We are shopper-centric, continuously monitoring the purchase and usage behaviour through the largest omnipanel in the world. With unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology and expert analysts, we partner with brands and retailers of all sizes, empowering them to reimagine what’s possible, and change the landscape to create a better, healthier, more sustainable and inclusive world.

The Office Manager is responsible for the smooth, day-to-day running of the office, encompassing administrative, operational, and logistical tasks. This includes managing staff, handling office finances, ensuring facilities are well-maintained, and overseeing various administrative systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing Office Facilities: Overseeing daily tasks, implementing and maintaining office policies and procedures, and ensuring efficiency.
• Administrative Tasks: Organising meetings, managing schedules, and handling correspondence, office supplies & stationary ordering
• Facilities Management: Maintaining office supplies, equipment, and facilities, including liaising with suppliers and contractors for repairs and maintenance.
• Financial Management: Managing the office budget, raising purchase orders and processing invoices.
• Health and Safety: Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and policies.
• Security Management : Ensuring security systems are kept updated & company compliance followed including emergency protocols
• Sustainability Initiatives : Implement and manage Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) related requirements and initiatives to support corporate sustainability goals
• Communication: Acting as a point of contact for various departments, liaising with staff, suppliers, and external parties including the landlord’s building management team.
• Tech Support: Liaising with the IT department to ensure technology functions effectively.
  

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Office Manager or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of facilities management operations and best practices.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficient in MS Office and ideally facilities management software – CAFM.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field is welcomed but not essential
• Other languages are welcomed
  

What you’ll get from us

• 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays), plus your birthday off!
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Flexible benefits across health, wealth, and lifestyle.
• Extensive training and excellent scope for career development.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
  

We have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to encourage new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.

We want to build a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager(s) and for consideration for potential future opportunities by Kantar and its affiliate Kantar group companies. For full details of our privacy policy please visit www.kantar.com.

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Country

United Kingdom

We’re the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company; we shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere.

Worldpanel provides brands and retailers with a unique, 360-degree understanding of consumer behaviour across the globe. We are shopper-centric, continuously monitoring the purchase and usage behaviour through the largest omnipanel in the world. With unparalleled datasets, pioneering technology and expert analysts, we partner with brands and retailers of all sizes, empowering them to reimagine what’s possible, and change the landscape to create a better, healthier, more sustainable and inclusive world.

Job Details

The Office Manager is responsible for the smooth, day-to-day running of the office, encompassing administrative, operational, and logistical tasks. This includes managing staff, handling office finances, ensuring facilities are well-maintained, and overseeing various administrative systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Managing Office Facilities: Overseeing daily tasks, implementing and maintaining office policies and procedures, and ensuring efficiency.
• Administrative Tasks: Organising meetings, managing schedules, and handling correspondence, office supplies & stationary ordering
• Facilities Management: Maintaining office supplies, equipment, and facilities, including liaising with suppliers and contractors for repairs and maintenance.
• Financial Management: Managing the office budget, raising purchase orders and processing invoices.
• Health and Safety: Ensuring compliance with relevant regulations and policies.
• Security Management : Ensuring security systems are kept updated & company compliance followed including emergency protocols
• Sustainability Initiatives : Implement and manage Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) related requirements and initiatives to support corporate sustainability goals
• Communication: Acting as a point of contact for various departments, liaising with staff, suppliers, and external parties including the landlord’s building management team.
• Tech Support: Liaising with the IT department to ensure technology functions effectively.
  

Qualifications:

• Proven experience as a Office Manager or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of facilities management operations and best practices.
• Excellent project management and leadership skills.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
• Proficient in MS Office and ideally facilities management software – CAFM.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in Facilities Management, Engineering, Business Administration, or a related field is welcomed but not essential
• Proficient English Skills
• Other languages are welcomed
  

What you’ll get from us

• 25 days annual leave (excl. bank holidays), plus your birthday off!
• Private Medical Insurance.
• Flexible benefits across health, wealth, and lifestyle.
• Extensive training and excellent scope for career development.
• A collaborative and supportive work environment.
  

We have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principles. Our approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.

We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to encourage new thinking and shape the world we live in. Apply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.

We want to build an equality of opportunity in a fair and encouraging working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well-being is taken into consideration.

We want to build a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.

Privacy and Legal Statement

PRIVACY DISCLOSURE: Please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by The Kantar Group Limited (“Kantar”). Your details will be kept on our Internal ATS (Applicant Tracking System) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager(s) and for consideration for potential future opportunities by Kantar and its affiliate Kantar group companies. For full details of our privacy policy please visit www.kantar.com.

#LI-NP1 #LI-Hybrid

Country

United Kingdom

Why join Kantar?

We shape the brands of tomorrow by better understanding people everywhere. By understanding people, we can understand what drives their decisions, actions, and aspirations on a global scale. And by amplifying our in-depth expertise of human understanding alongside ground-breaking technology, we can help brands find concrete insights that will help them succeed in our fast-paced, ever shifting world.

And because we know people, we like to make sure our own people are being looked after as well. Equality of opportunity for everyone is our highest priority and we support our colleagues to work in a way that supports their health and wellbeing. While we encourage teams to spend part of their working week in the office, we understand no one size fits all; our approach is flexible to ensure everybody feels included, accepted, and that we can win together. We’re dedicated to creating an inclusive culture and value the diversity of our people, clients, suppliers and communities, and we encourage applications from all backgrounds and sections of society. Even if you feel like you’re not an exact match, we’d love to receive your application and talk to you about this job or others at Kantar.

About Us

KANTAR

Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting company. We understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone else. Combining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, Kantar’s 25000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.

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