Regional Operations Manager; Scotland

The role:

Regional Operations Manager (ROM)

The purpose of our Regional Operations Manager is to own and manage several clusters, ensuring they are providing a clean, safe, and effective working environment for our customers, visitors, and colleagues – enabling them to be brilliant.

You will provide daily leadership, management, and development of the agreed CBRE contract with BT ensuring financial and operational commitments are met and exceeded across your region. This role reports into a Business Unit Leader and directly manages a team of Area Operations Managers.

• Provide leadership to ensure that contractual commitments are met and exceeded
• Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of the contract are leveraged to deliver increased turnover and profitability, and that additional services and projects are added
• Ensure business policies and processes are effectively communicated and implemented
• Ensure that contracts provide a healthy and safe working condition, and that both CBRE and BT's quality, health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both CBRE and subcontractors' activities, with systems operating to ensure regular review
• Full P&L responsibility for your region delivered through the Area Operations Managers (AOMs), supporting the overall success of the BU
• Ensure cluster training matrices are up to date and issue training via talent coach monthly
• Work with other Regional Operations Managers on the BT account to ensure collaborative development of the business, effective team working, and best practice ensuring national consistency
• Identify, track and influence key PMS/KPI and financial performance metrics to deliver required performance in your cluster
• Develop financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP/OPOs, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded
• Ensure appropriate contract review, audit, and control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met
• Ensure a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with customer contacts and CFU's
• Promote and maintain the core values of CBRE
• Set and deliver performance targets driving change and growth
• Ensure that the contract is resourced by fully competent teams
• Build a robust succession plan for the region, using management development programmes and local development activities to ensure ready and able candidates are always available
• Provision of leadership guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward
• Support effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad‑hoc reporting and other publications as appropriate
• Develop an exceptional partnership with key suppliers and P&FS colleagues to deliver and improve appropriate workplace environments collaboratively
• Be a nominated customer relationship manager for one of the BT CFUs
• Ensure CCNs are completed within the necessary timescales within your regions by supporting the AOMs
• Implement and monitor cost‑saving initiatives for the region
• Liaise with commercial team to resolve any outstanding queries raised by AOMs
• Actively support the success of your Region and BU
• Monitor and identify areas for improvement as a matter of course
• Ensure robust contract reviews are in place across regional teams with check and challenge of detail and are used as coaching and development opportunities
• Identify and act on safety trends and reports to create interventions to protect the business, our people and drive continuous safety improvement
• Measure and track quality at all levels in your region and act where quality standards drop below expectation
• Ensure mandatory processes are in place, and are compliant including line management auditing, QHSE objective setting and tracking, Dynamic RA, H&S scenario training and RIDDOR investigations
• Ensure your team has the skills and motivation to carry out their roles to…