PPP Contract Manager

Sodexo Ltd; Sefton; Hybrid; GBP 56,000 - 61,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global service provider is seeking a Contract Manager to oversee the delivery of Facilities Management services across national PPP Schools in Ireland. This role requires strong leadership skills and technical expertise in facilities management. The successful candidate will manage a multi-disciplinary team and ensure compliance and client satisfaction. Benefits include a competitive salary and various perks.

Benefits

Wellbeing support

Employee Assistance Programme

24hr virtual GP Service

Sodexo Discounts Scheme

Pension Plan

Learning and development tools

Bike to Work Scheme

Enhanced benefits and leave policies

Qualifications

• Proven experience managing Facilities Management contracts in a multi-site environment.
• Strong people leadership skills with experience coaching diverse teams.
• Sound understanding of technical FM disciplines including M&E, HVAC, Fire Protection.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the delivery of Hard and Soft FM services.
• Build strong client relationships and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Manage contract budgets and financial performance.

Skills

Leadership

Technical expertise in FM

Budget management

Stakeholder engagement

Communication skills

Education

Degree in Engineering or related discipline

IOSH / NEBOSH qualification

Job description

Contract Manager – PPP Schools (National)
Location: Dublin (with travel across Leinster and Munster regions)
Contract Type: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: €65,000- €70,00 plus Sodexo Benefits

About the Role

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Contract Manager to lead the delivery of Facilities Management services across our national PPP Schools contract. Reporting to the PPP Contract Director, you will manage a multi-disciplinary team of managers, technicians, and frontline staff to ensure excellence in service delivery, compliance, and client satisfaction across multiple school sites.

This is an exciting opportunity for an operations-focused professional with strong leadership, commercial, and technical expertise to play a key role in a high-profile contract with national impact.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage the day-to-day delivery of Hard and Soft FM services in line with SLAs and KPIs.
• Build strong client relationships and ensure high levels of customer satisfaction.
• Oversee planned and reactive maintenance, lifecycle works, and project delivery.
• Manage contract budgets, monitor financial performance, and identify opportunities to maximise value.
• Ensure legislative and safety compliance across all sites.
• Line manage and develop site-based managers and teams to drive performance and engagement.
• Support the delivery of operational excellence through innovation and best practice.
• Act as a key member of the Emergency Response and Business Continuity teams.

About You

• Proven experience managing Facilities Management contracts in a multi-site environment.
• Strong people leadership skills, with experience coaching and developing diverse teams.
• Sound understanding of technical FM disciplines including M&E, HVAC, Fire Protection, and BMS systems.
• Commercially astute with experience managing budgets and interpreting contracts.
• IOSH / NEBOSH qualification and professional membership (BIFM, CIBSE or equivalent).
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Flexible, proactive, and confident in managing change and driving improvement.
• Degree in Engineering, Facilities, or a related discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Must satisfy Garda vetting requirements.

Why Sodexo?

Working with Sodexo is more than a job; it’s a chance to be part of something greater.

Belong in a company and team that values you for you. Act with purpose and have an impact through your everyday actions. Thrive in your own way.

We also offer a range of perks, rewards and benefits for our colleagues and their families:

• Unlimited access to an online platform offering wellbeing support
• An extensive Employee Assistance Programme to help with everyday issues or life's larger problems, including legal and financial advice, support with work or personal issues impacting your wellbeing
• Access to a 24hr virtual GP Service
• Sodexo Discounts Scheme, offering great deals 24/7 across popular high street retailers (also open to friends and family)
• Save for your future by becoming a member of the Pension Plan
• Opportunities to enable colleagues to grow and succeed throughout their career at Sodexo, including a variety of learning and development tools
• Bike to Work Scheme to help colleagues to do their bit for the environment whilst keeping fit
• Sodexo UK and Ireland's enhanced benefits and leave policies

A little more about Sodexo

At Sodexo, our purpose is to create a better everyday for everyone to build a better life for all. As the global leader in services that improve the Quality of Life, we operate in 55 countries, serving over 100 million consumers each day through our unique combination of On-Site Food and FM Services, Benefits & Rewards Services and Personal & Home Services.

We are committed to be an inclusive employer. We are a forces friendly employer. We welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities. We encourage our employees to get involved with our Employee Networks such as Pride, Sodexo Parents & Carers, Sodexo Disability, Ability network, SoTogether, Generations and Origins.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations. We run a Disability Confident interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the job.

Ready to be part of something greater?

Sodexo reserves the right to close this advert early if we are in receipt of a high number of applications.