Senior Facilities Management Business Partner - South

We're looking for a Senior Facilities Management (FM) Business Partner to join us and support the delivery of our facilities management strategy across the South region. As a Senior FM Business Partner, we'll look to you to provide an excellent FM service to circa 80 properties in your region, across our food and funeralcare estate.

In this varied role, you'll take the lead on delivering our FM plan, building great relationships with colleagues and suppliers across your region and at our support centre and becoming the key partner for any facilities issues. And of course, you'll make sure that all solutions are kept within budget. You'll always be actively looking for ways for us to improve, whether that be from developing our service to supporting the growth of our team. It's a big job. But one where you'll get the chance to develop your profile in role where no two days are ever the same.

What you'll do

• Support the FM business partners as point of escalation, as well as mentor and support them on their development


• Deliver operational facilities management consistently and to a high standard across approximately 70-80 properties on your region


• Visit the sites in your region periodically, engaging and building relationships with field colleagues and partners


• Build meaningful relationships with 3rd party suppliers and make sure services are delivered to a high quality, in time and budget


• Carry out property audits and inspections, making decisions on how to best maintain our assets in order to keep our colleagues and customers safe and our sites trading


• Work collaboratively with our property teams to support the delivery of capital programmes


• Work collaboratively with senior leads from across the business to plan activity and tackle more complex issues, and to inform and support strategic change


• Build meaningful relationships with 3rd party suppliers and make sure services are delivered to a high quality, in time and budget


• Use your knowledge and expertise in the region to inform and feed into the multi-year strategy, annual plans and capital spend budget
  
  A background in FM, with proven experience of managing a large, multi-site, portfolio


• Experience being a great partner to broad operational teams and contract tenders


• A talent for building and managing strong and meaningful relationships with a broad range of colleagues, field leaders and partners


• Experience managing budgets


• Great organisational skills: you're able to prioritise and organise your workload effectively and work on your own
  
  At Co-op, we're proud to do things a different way. As one of the world's largest co-operatives, owned by millions of members, community is at the heart of what we do. Since our Co-op was founded in 1844, we've had a clear social purpose, and everything we do as a business helps to build a fairer world for our members, customers, colleagues, and communities.


Building a diverse environment

We're actively building diverse teams and we welcome applications from everyone. If you have a disability, we can make reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process according to your needs. We're also part of the Disability Confident scheme, meaning we'll always offer an interview to disabled candidates who apply through the scheme if they meet the minimum criteria for a job.

We'll ask whether you'd like to be considered under the Disability Confident scheme when you apply.

If we invite you to take part in the recruitment process for any of our jobs, we'll ask you if you need any reasonable adjustments to enable you to participate.

If you have the skills that we need, we can offer you a competitive salary and great benefits package which includes 30% off Co-op branded products in our food stores (as well as other discounts on Co-op products and services).

• An annual bonus (based on personal and business performance)


• 28 days holiday (rising to 32 with service) plus bank holidays


• A pension with up to 10% employer contributions


• Private healthcare


• Access to a subsidised onsite gym (at our Manchester HQ)


• Coaching and training to support your career development


• Wagestream app - giving you access to a percentage of your pay as you earn