A great opportunity has become available for an experienced Cleaning Manager to join our team on a highly prestigious client site in Waltham on the Wolds, Near Melton Mowbray. We are looking for someone to manage the cleaning operation, maximizing the performance of cleaning teams and ensuring the service is operated in line with company standards, policies and procedures and to contractual specifications.

You will be passionate about delivering a high-end cleaning service, with excellent stakeholder and leadership skills.

Your focus will be to effectively manage the Sodexo cleaning team and to ensure that exemplary services are provided across the site. You will deliver operational excellence across all Sodexo cleaning services. Great people management skills will be key to your success as you motivate and lead the team to achieve high performance at all times.

Experience as a strong people manager and cleaning management experience will be ideal for this fantastic opportunity.

This is a great opportunity for a customer focused individual to join a world leading food and facilities management company, which can offer unrivalled opportunities for career progression.

• Manage sub-contractors to ensure all areas of cleaning are covered and managed accordingly. Manage team ensuring all HR, training and developments are managed.
• Delegate to and deputise for the Cleaning Team leaders
• Provide cover advice and support for the team out of normal working hours when required
• Complete cleaning operations as per agreed SLA/specification
• Drive BAU across the cleaning contract, and ensure we offer a 5* Service
• Increase cleaning employee engagement across the campus through addressing absence, lateness and HR issues, driving communication and investing time in training team all in line with company policy Improve team efficiency and standards, including innovations and continuous improvement
• To ensure health and safety is given number one priority and all of the team understand their contribution to this

For a full list of responsibilities please view the attached job description

Essential

• Proven consistent cleaning management experience
• Excellent customer facing skills
• Flexible team focussed attitude
• Clean driving licence
• Experience of the undertaking of all cleaning tasks
• Computer literate in Word, Excel and Outlook
• Basis numeracy / literacy skills
• IOSH
• BICS

Desirable

• NVQ or similar

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process

£28,000pa - £30,000pa DOE + excellent benefits

Location: Waltham on the Wolds, Nr Melton Mowbray

Permanent

Work Pattern – 40 hrs pw Monday to Friday with flexibility required depending on business needs

We also offer Sodexo Discounts site promoting discounted mobile phone tariffs, savings across restaurant chains and days out, where you and your family can save money on everything from your weekly food shop to the latest cinema blockbuster and much more!