FM Office Services Manager - #194187

FM Office Services Manager

Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

The role

The FM Office Services Manager is responsible for coordinating and delivering office and soft facilities services across Charlton House and Runnings Road. The role ensures colleagues, visitors and contractors receive a professional, safe and efficient service, while managing key supplier relationships, office processes and day-to-day facilities activities.The post also provides day-to-day leadership of a rota-based office services team, ensuring consistently high standards of service delivery across front-of-house, administrative and facilities support functions.

Key responsibilities

• Manage the day-to-day delivery of office services, including reception, post, inter-site transport, stationery provision and meeting room coordination.
• Oversee catering, internal cleaning and external cleaning services across Charlton House and Runnings Road.
• Coordinate and assign facilities work requests, ensuring issues are directed to the appropriate internal teams or external suppliers.
• Manage the driver management system and associated administration processes.
• Administer supplier and contractor activities, including purchase orders, invoice processing and spend monitoring.
• Monitor contractor performance and expenditure against agreed contract values and service levels.
• Maintain waste management and utility consumption data to support compliance, reporting and service reviews.
• Lead and coordinate a team of four colleagues covering reception, post and administrative services, ensuring appropriate rota cover and service standards.
• Act as contract lead for key catering and cleaning service contracts, managing significant annual budgets and supplier relationships.

Your experience

• Experience in office management, facilities management, contractor management, business administration or a similar service-led environment.
• Experience working with external suppliers and contractors, including service monitoring and relationship management.
• Proven experience managing purchase orders, invoices, service contracts and budget expenditure.
• Experience coordinating multiple priorities, services and stakeholders within a busy operational environment.
• Previous experience supervising or coordinating a small team would be advantageous.

Your skills

• Excellent organisational and prioritisation skills with the ability to manage multiple activities simultaneously.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with a professional approach when dealing with colleagues, visitors, contractors and suppliers.
• Commercial awareness and the ability to monitor contract spend and supplier performance effectively.
• High attention to detail with strong record-keeping and administrative capabilities.
• Ability to analyse service data and maintain compliance-related information accurately.
• Collaborative, customer-focused approach with a commitment to delivering high standards of service.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and facilities-related administration systems.

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The Steam Thermal Solutions business is one of three businesses within Spirax Group. Spirax Sarco and Gestra, are our two brands that form Steam Thermal Solutions and are global leaders in the supply of engineered solutions for the design, provision and maintenance of efficient industrial and commercial steam systems. Steam Thermal Solutions has global coverage across 67 operating units (called OpCos), organised into four Divisions: EMEA, APAC, Americas, Gestra.

Spirax Group is a FTSE100 and FTSE4Good multi-national industrial engineering Group with expertise in the control and management of steam, electric thermal solutions, peristaltic pumping and associated fluid technologies.

Our Purpose is to create sustainable value for all our stakeholders as we engineer a more efficient, safer and sustainable world. Our technologies play an essential role in critical industrial processes and industrial equipment across industries as diverse as Food & Beverage, Pharmaceutical & Biotechnology, Power Generation, Semiconductors and Healthcare. With customers in 165 countries, we provide the solutions that sit behind the production of many items used in daily life, from baked beans to mobile phones!

Our Purpose, supported by our inclusive culture and Values, unites us, guides our decisions and inspires us everywhere that we operate. We support our colleagues to make their difference for each other as well as customers, communities, suppliers, our planet and shareholders by creating a truly equitable working environment where everyone feels included.

Benefits

You will receive a competitive salary (and a discretionary bonus), flexible working and excellent benefits including 27 days holiday allowance (before bank holidays), 3 days’ paid volunteering leave, comprehensive private healthcare, enhanced pension plan, life assurance, optional participation in a Share Ownership Plan, free onsite parking, flexible benefits, and access to a personal discounts’ portal. We also offer a range of additional support and benefits through our Everyone is Included Group Inclusion Plan, detailed below.

Everyone is Included at Spirax Group

We are passionate about creating inclusive and equitable working cultures where everyone can be themselves and achieve their full potential. For us, that means supportive teams and strong relationships where everyone’s contribution is valued - across social and cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, ages, genders, gender identities, abilities, neurodiversity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, and everything else that makes us human and unique.

We want everyone to be able to make their difference here, so we will always consider requests for flexible working.

We know that everyone needs some extra help from time to time too, so we have introduced a range of additional benefits through our Group Inclusion Commitments. These include gender-neutral parental leave, 15 days of extra paid caregiver leave, paid time off and support for anyone experiencing pregnancy loss or domestic abuse, menopause-friendly workplace principles and more. Learn more at https://www.spiraxgroup.com/en/life-at-spirax/our-inclusive-group/our-inclusion-commitments.

We are also a Disability Confident Committed Employer. If you would like to apply using this scheme, please select this option in our application form or notify our recruitment partners.