Interim Facilities Manager

CBRE; Greater London; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global facilities management firm is seeking an Interim Facilities Manager to provide leadership and management of a defined contract. You will ensure financial and operational commitments are met and develop strategic opportunities to enhance turnover and profitability. The ideal candidate should have proven leadership skills, a strong understanding of health and safety policies, and experience in contract development. This role offers a chance to work collaboratively with stakeholders and maintain high service excellence in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership and management skills in facilities management.
• Experience in contract development and financial planning.
• Strong understanding of health and safety policies.

Responsibilities

• Provide leadership to ensure contractual commitments are met.
• Develop financial plans for revenue and profit delivery.
• Maintain customer focus and effective relationships with clients.

Job description

Interim Facilities Manager

Purpose of the Job

Providing leadership, management and development of a defined contract, ensuring financial and operational commitments are met and exceeded.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide leadership and ensure contractual commitments are met and exceeded.
• Ensure opportunities for strategic development of the contract are exploited to deliver increased turnover and profitability, adding services and projects and re‑winning contracts on re‑tenders.
• Ensure business policies and processes are effectively communicated and implemented within the contract.
• Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both client and company health and safety policy is effectively implemented across CBRE and subcontractor activities, including regular review and management of eLogbooks.
• Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence, supporting peaks and troughs in workload and disaster recovery.
• Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, with effective succession planning arrangements in place.
• Work with site stakeholders to ensure a collaborative approach and deliver the agreed scope set out in the service activity matrix.
• Develop contract financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduce WIP and debt, achieve cost reduction, and conduct monthly performance reviews to meet and exceed targets.
• Ensure appropriate control systems are in place to meet statutory, policy and contractual commitments.
• Maintain a customer focus within all operational activities and sustain effective relationships with key client contacts.
• Promote and maintain the core values of CBRE RISE values.
• Provide leadership, guidance, coaching and support to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.
• Deliver effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad‑hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.
• Provide a learning environment and appropriate training and development planning; ensure basic training needs are delivered and employees are fully competent for their roles.
• Ensure KPI’s and OPIs are met and reported monthly.

About CBRE GWS

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real‑estate a meaningful contributor to organisational productivity and performance. Our account‑management model is at the heart of our client‑centric approach to delivering integrated real‑estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, across industries and geographies.

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and affirmative action employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans).