VIVO, a 50:50 joint venture between Serco and EQUANS, has been awarded places on the Defence FM and Housing Maintenance framework contracts.
VIVO embodies both experience and innovation. It combines Serco’s comprehensive track record delivering engineering, technical and FM services to the UK MOD for over 55 years with EQUANS’ market leading FM, energy, asset optimisation and regeneration capabilities.
Area Manager
Location: South West
Full time, Permanent
Competitive salary
This is an exciting opportunity in a new contract where an ambitious and people-focused leader can make their mark building and delivering an exceptional and customer-focused facilities management/built-estate service to a very special customer.
The Area Manager will lead, inspire, drive and support their team, and their trusted delivery partners, to provide an estate that is safe, well-maintained, compliant, and that meets the needs of the demanding and varied estate users. They must do all that cost-efficiently and in-line with VIVO’s culture, values and objectives, while meeting and exceeding performance goals. Additionally, the role will also support the business growth strategy.
Our new opportunity is the award of the Hard FM Services for the Reserve Forces and Cadet Association (RFCA) assets in the Central and South-West regions, commonly called the Volunteer Estate. This supports training for the UK’s military reservists and cadet forces who pay a critical support role in the defence and security of the UK.
We are deploying a dedicated leadership team of four Area Managers to lead this contract, working with the Operations Director.
What You'll Need for this role:
- Responsible for the delivery of planned, reactive and project work delivery through our trusted delivery partners. Key to this is working with them to achieve their operational, cost and compliance targets and objectives, and working with them to continually improve delivery.
- Drive a culture of safety, with a focus on the wellbeing of the whole team.
- Championing VIVO’s “Customer First” objective, leading by example to ensure that the whole delivery model is focused on delivering a service that meets our customers’ needs and is empathetic and authentic.
- Development and maintenance of effective, warm and open relationships with military and civilian customers of every seniority, with a critical focus on maintaining robust relationships with our senior military customers.
- Lead by example, and demonstrate our values every day. Key to this is continually visiting our teams and sites to gather feedback, understand the teams’ and customer’s issues and opportunities, and being seen to “walk the talk”.
- Responsibility for growth and delivery of the Additional/Billable Works projects pipeline
- Establish/grow Net Zero programme of works across areas
- Monitor financial performance against budget and contribute to revenue growth
Qualifications & Experience
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written and verbal) to ensure effective engagement with management team(s), employees, internal and external stakeholders
- Relevant professional qualification: CIOB/RICS (or working towards). Or equivalent qualification or comparable through experience or qualification in role related subject
- Sound knowledge and understanding of working within a repairs and maintenance service.
- Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office packages (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio
- etc.)
- Experienced in leading and managing a multi discipline team and sub-contract supply chain.
What We Offer
As part of your package, we offer a company car or allowance, up to 20%, 6% employer matched pension contribution, single private medical cover, life assurance up to 2x base salary, and 25 days annual leave. In addition to this, we offer fantastic training and development, a supportive senior leadership team and varied and interesting work.
VIVO Defence Services
The role you have applied for is with VIVO Defence Services, a joint venture between Serco and EQUANS. By applying for this role, please be aware that information contained within your CV may be shared between VIVO Defence Services, Serco and EQUANS during the recruitment process.
At VIVO, we are committed to building a diverse and inclusive organisation that supports the needs of all. Therefore, we will make reasonable adjustments at interview through to employment for our candidates and strongly encourage applications from a diverse candidate pool.
We are open to discussions around flexibility and flexible working and operate a hybrid work structure in many of our business areas. We are proudly a Disability Confident Employer. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for the job will be given the opportunity to demonstrate their abilities at an interview. If candidates wish to request extra time to apply then they should contact 0345 010 4000 and ask to speak to a VIVO Recruiter.
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