About the Role
This role involves taking ownership of the day-to-day workplace experience across a busy and high-profile site, leading people, partners, and services to create a safe and welcoming environment. You will oversee the smooth and effective operation of the site, maintaining high standards in service delivery, compliance, sustainability, and operational resilience.
Responsibilities
- Ensure business critical building systems are effectively maintained, tested and supported through robust planned and reactive maintenance arrangements.
- Manage the property operating budget, including forecasting, financial control and reporting.
- Oversee Facilities projects, alterations and refurbishments, ensuring delivery against agreed scope, cost, programme and risk.
- Manage landlord approvals and other requirements associated with building works.
- Monitor workplace standards through inspections, audits and quality controls, making sure remedial actions are completed promptly.
- Maintain effective emergency response and business continuity arrangements, including support for critical incidents when required.
- Use Facilities systems, operational data and performance reporting to monitor service delivery, identify trends and support decision making.
- Maintain oversight of Facilities related risks, ensuring appropriate mitigation, escalation and reporting.
- Manage outsourced hard and soft FM contracts against agreed SLAs, KPIs and service standards.
- Monitor supplier performance, value for money and opportunities to improve service delivery.
- Oversee contractor compliance, including risk assessments, permits to work, insurance and other required documentation.
- Support procurement, tendering, mobilisation, contract renewal and supplier transition activity.
- Manage workplace adjustments arising through the Tailored Adjustment Plans process.
- Maintain appropriate statutory and operational Facilities documentation, records and asset information.
Requirements
- Demonstrable facilities management experience within a large or complex workplace.
- Experience managing both hard and soft FM services.
- Strong knowledge of statutory compliance and building safety requirements.
- Proven contractor and supplier management experience, including SLAs and KPIs.
- Budget management and financial reporting experience.
- Proven team leadership and performance-management experience.
- Experience managing incidents, emergencies and business continuity arrangements.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and customer-service skills, with the ability to work effectively at all levels.
- Experience using Microsoft 365 and Facilities/CAFM or help-desk systems.
- IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent/higher health & safety qualification.
Skills
- Stakeholder management
- Communication
- Customer service
- Microsoft 365
- Facilities/CAFM systems
- Help-desk systems
Location
- London
Work Type
- Permanent
- Onsite
Experience Level
- Facilities management experience within a large or complex workplace
Education Level
- IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent/higher health & safety qualification
- IWFM qualification or professional membership
- NEBOSH qualification or equivalent advanced health & safety training
Salary/Compensations
- c. £60,000
Benefits
- Generous bonus scheme
About the Company
- Penguin Random House
- DK
- BMG
- The Random House Group Limited
Equal Opportunity
- As a Disability Confident Committed organisation, we offer interviews to candidates with a disability who meet the essential criteria for the role, and opt-in on their application form.
- We celebrate creativity and diverse perspectives, so please be yourself! While we recognise AI tools can be helpful, we recommend using them thoughtfully to ensure your responses reflect you.
