Facilities Manager - 12 month contract

LifeArc; London; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

LifeArc is seeking a Facilities Manager for a 12-month contract in London. You will ensure a safe and efficient environment while managing a team and overseeing facilities services at two sites. The role includes planning for a new building in Kings Cross to unite current teams. This position offers the chance to impact life sciences positively while working in a supportive and inclusive environment.

Benefits

Employer pension contributions up to 12%

Private health insurance

31 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Qualifications

• Experience in overseeing facilities management, including people management.
• Experience managing health and safety is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of four across London and Stevenage.
• Manage relationships with service suppliers.
• Hold budget responsibility for facilities.
• Plan site moves and adaptations.

Skills

Customer service skills

Organisational skills

Interpersonal skills

Stakeholder management

Self-management

Education

Significant experience in facilities management

Job description

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Job Title: Facilities Manager - 12-month contract Location: London on-siteJob Type: contract 12-month

Start date: 1st week of August

Agencies: We will only work with recruitment partners on our preferred supplier list and will not engage with speculative CVs submitted.

Are you passionate about making life science life changing and delivering impact for patients? We want to hear from you.

About the role:

Create a great experience for our employees and partners using our facilities in London and Stevenage by managing our reception team and overseeing a safe, efficient, professional, and welcoming environment. This role will also play a crucial part in planning for our new building in Kings Cross, where we will bring together our teams currently in London and Stevenage in a new building due to open in 2027.

About you:

• Lead a team of four staff members split between Stevenage and London, ensuring adequate cover (e.g., during annual leave and sickness) and consistently high standards across both sites.
• Manage relationships with building management and suppliers of facilities services (e.g., cleaning, catering), ensuring high levels of service and value for money.
• Hold budget responsibility for all equipment and services required within the facilities function.
• Play a lead role in planning for a site move from Lynton House and Stevenage to a single building in Kings Cross, scheduled for 2025.
• Lead any site adaptations, including liaising with external suppliers and internal stakeholders.
• Work with the reception team and other functions to provide value-added administrative services during any downtime the team may have.
• Support LifeArc events held on-site (e.g., town hall meetings, meet the board sessions, and occasional events).
• Ensure a healthy and safe environment at Lynton House and for the non-laboratory areas in Stevenage.

Education & experience required:

• Significant experience in overseeing facilities management, including people management.

Desirable:

• Experience managing health and safety.
• Experience with office moves and contributing to the design of new facilities.

Skills & abilities:

• Excellent customer service skills.
• Highly organised.
• Enthusiastic and flexible.
• Highly personable.
• Strong influencing skills and stakeholder management.
• Self-motivated and able to self-manage.

About us:

LifeArc is a not-for-profit life science organisation, leading the way for change in rare diseases in the UK and supporting promising initiatives in global health. We seek out research in areas of unmet need that has great potential, providing support to help it become breakthroughs that change lives.

What we can offer you:

Focused on finding life changing solutions for underserved patients, our people thrive in an inclusive, and supportive environment that prioritises their health and wellbeing. Our multidisciplinary approach guarantees our people growth opportunities, while our culture of innovation and collaboration drives the impact we make delivering on our purpose of 'putting patients at the centre of everything we do'.

We are dedicated to creating a diverse, flexible, equitable and happy work environment so our colleagues can thrive as their truest selves. We act with courage, curiosity, care & commitment to deliver quality & excellence for our patients and each other Join us, and you'll be given the scope to develop your professional skills and experience in a safe, supportive and challenging environment

Salary will be determined by qualifications and experience along with other exceptional benefits. Because we understand everyone has different requirements, our flexible benefits allow you to choose those which are important to you. Our pension scheme offers employer contributions of up to 12%, private health insurance, and annual leave of 31 days PLUS bank holidays.

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people from minority ethnic backgrounds, for example, are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At LifeArc we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace, so whatever your background or lived experience, if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. Our top priority is finding the best candidate, and you may be just right for this or other roles.

We all have potential. At LifeArc, you'll discover what you can really do with it.