Operations Director

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• Pension contribution

Operations Director Somerset and Gloucestershire

We are looking for a talented Operations Director to join us in ESS where you will play a key role on the leadership team, bringing to life our shared commitments.

• Competitive Salary
• Attractive benefits package
• Excellent development opportunities
• Pension contribution

As an Operations Director you will be responsible for multi-site delivery of a wide range of food-led Soft FM services, managing client and stakeholder relationships whilst ensuring contractual compliance and adherence to company policies. Accurately reviewing and driving business performance, growing and nurturing a service-led culture where your large team give of their best to our clients and customers every day and you will work closely with a wide stakeholder group to deliver collaborative, winning solutions in an exciting Defence environment. You will drive value, be innovative and strive for service excellence. Develop and exhibit strong leadership to your team of General Managers supporting them in their development and helping them grow their performance.

• Exercise tight control of your P&L, understanding when and where to make the right interventions and understanding and knowing how to deal appropriately with all risks and opportunities.
• You will work with our HR team to develop and execute a strong people strategy across your region. You will be coaching, monitoring and helping people grow as individuals and within teams, raising levels of employee engagement as well as building a rich and talented succession plan.
• Champion the development and execution of a first-rate food and retail services ensuring high satisfaction rates from those who use our services, listening to the voice of our customers and, working with our brand and other subject matter experts, generating innovative new offerings.
• Grow and maintain strong, collaborative and enduring relationships with our senior client base
• Ensure consistency and exceptional service is delivered across all our service streams to all our customers every day; place service excellence at the heart of everything we do
• Form a key part of the Regional Senior Leadership Team, working collaboratively and supportively with your Business Director as well as other Operations Directors and heads of specialisms to ensure achievement of shared objectives

• You will be ambitious and ready to take a role which will help you grow your career and prepare you for the next move. Success in this role will help you achieve your life goals.
• Excellent understanding and appreciation of what goes to the successful delivery of Soft FM support services. Previous experience of delivering food-led support services will be very useful but we believe this role will appeal to a wide range of more senior professionals used to building on the strength of people to deliver a customer and client-led suite of services.
• Previous experience in a broadly similar service delivery sector . Although a military background might be of some advantage, this role will suit someone with first class experience of, and a commitment to, delivering first class support services.
• Strong influencing, coaching and people development skills.
• Tactical nous, the ability to plan appropriately and the capability to execute plans to time, budget and resulting in desired outcomes.
• Experience of leading and managing large and complex teams over multiple geographical locations to deliver first class results.
• A self-starter. Excited about food, service and people and has their finger on the pulse of what is current and trending.
• Strong record of winning leadership.
• Able to build positive, collaborative relationships quickly with colleagues and clients.
• Able to drive change with effective project and stakeholder management skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Proactive, pragmatic and commercial approach