Compliance & Performance Manager

Equans is looking for a Compliance & Performance Manager to join our team in Edinburgh on a permanent basis. This is a full‑time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package.

The Compliance & Performance Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for the governance, assurance, compliance and performance framework across the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh account.

The role ensures that services are delivered safely, compliantly and in accordance with contractual, statutory and business requirements, with robust evidence, accurate reporting and effective governance controls in place across the account.

The role holder is responsible for leading the contract’s compliance and performance arrangements, ensuring that operational delivery is supported by strong audit, assurance, reporting, document control and improvement processes. This includes oversight of contractual compliance, statutory compliance, quality systems, governance routines, audit readiness, risk and action tracking, performance reporting and the integrity of the account’s evidence base.

In a live healthcare PFI environment, the role is central to maintaining customer confidence, protecting contractual position, supporting operational stability and ensuring the account is able to demonstrate compliance and readiness at all times. A key requirement of the role is to ensure the contract is supported by a clear, accurate and well‑maintained evidence base as the account progresses towards handback.

• Lead the compliance and performance function across the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh account, ensuring all contractual, statutory, quality, audit and governance obligations are effectively managed and evidenced.
• Act as the senior lead for governance, assurance, reporting and contract integrity across the account.
• Develop, maintain and continuously improve the account‑wide compliance and performance framework to support safe, compliant and effective service delivery.
• Ensure that all relevant contractual obligations are understood, monitored and appropriately evidenced across the Facilities and Ancillary service arrangements.
• Own and manage the account’s audit and assurance regime, including statutory compliance, service compliance, commercial compliance, governance compliance and SHEQ‑related assurance activity.
• Lead internal and external audit preparation, coordination and follow‑up, ensuring that findings are understood, actions are assigned and close‑out is evidenced.
• Ensure all audit actions, non‑conformances, improvement plans and corrective actions are robustly managed, tracked and closed within agreed timescales.
• Oversee the production of monthly, quarterly and annual compliance and performance reports, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency and high evidential standards.
• Validate performance information and challenge data quality, inconsistencies or weak reporting where standards are not met.
• Maintain effective governance routines, trackers, registers and reporting mechanisms to provide clear visibility of compliance status, performance trends, risks, actions and emerging issues.
• Support the Account Director, Estates Director and Senior Leadership Team with performance insight, compliance visibility, assurance updates and risk‑based recommendations.
• Provide leadership and coordination for all compliance‑related reporting, governance packs, action trackers, risk logs, assurance dashboards and supporting documentation.
• Ensure robust document control and records management arrangements are in place for compliance documentation, audit evidence, statutory records, policies, procedures, service outputs and handback‑related information.
• Maintain oversight of contract‑critical evidence, ensuring records are complete, accurate, current, retrievable and suitable for internal, customer, corporate or external scrutiny.

On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance, bonus and benefits package, which includes:

• 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
• Life Cover equivalent to x times annual salary
• Employee discount shopping schemes on…