Contracts Manager

Description

Contracts Manager – Commercial Cleaning & FM Services

Milton Keynes and Surrounding areas

Basic salary circa GBP28k Company vehicle/mileage allowance, commission opportunities, on target revenue bonus circa GBP2k.

Hours: 37.5 hours per week at times required to service customer sites

Why Join? My client is a leading commercial cleaning company, committed to providing over 400 customers with an excellent cleaning service at a competitive price. Established in 1999, they provide a professional, fully comprehensive cleaning provision across Southern England in sectors that include schools, offices, medical and leisure facilities. Despite our fast growth, we still care about every customer, every contract and every member of staff. They pride ourselves on our attention to detail and delivery of a thorough, reliable high–quality service.

The Opportunity Reporting to an Operations Managers, you will be responsible for the site management and smooth running of around customer sites in and around Milton Keynes and surrounding areas. This will involve the ongoing management of approximately 40–60 part–time cleaning staff, the recruitment and training of new staff where required and carrying out regular quality audits with each customer. You will be responsible for ensuring the highest level of cleaning standards and customer and staff satisfaction is maintained through excellent customer service.

What You ll Be Doing

Performing regular site audits with customers Maintaining regular customer contact and ensuring continuous customer satisfaction Ensuring highest standards of cleanliness are maintained at all customer sites Recruitment and management of cleaning staff Ensuring health and safety standards are maintained at all times Maintaining regular contact with site teams to ensure awareness of site–specific requirements Planning, facilitating and monitoring ongoing training for site operatives Providing feedback on performance and to take responsibility for managing issues that may arise Ensuring sufficient amounts of cleaning equipment, materials and consumables on site Ensuring customer sites are fully manned including absence and holiday cover Submitting fortnightly pay–sheets, other administration such as holiday forms and carry out payroll tasks Carrying out any other duties that are required as directed by the Operations Manager Attending regular meetings with the Operations Manager and Operations Director at their head office About You

Someone who has a "hands–on" attitude and has a balance of personnel management skills and business sense, in order to ensure operational success Pro–active, logical and forward thinking Flexible on working times Knowledgeable of the cleaning industry Someone with a strong desire to succeed and promote a high level of customer service Self–motivated Someone with excellent communication skills Able to take full responsibility for tasks Someone who manage teams in a supportive manner Have experience in the cleaning sector (essential) Have experience of managing a team A valid UK driver s license, satisfactory references and right to work in the UK Fairford Associates operates as an Employment Agency introducing work–seekers to client employers for direct employment by those employers. Please view our latest jobs on our website and follow us on Linkedin and Twitter. We do try to reply to each application personally, however as we receive a high number of applications for each role we handle it is not always possible to do this. Therefore, if we do not contact you within seven days your application for this particular role has not been successful. However, we have retained your CV and we will advise you of future roles that may be of interest.

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