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General Manager - Bath, United Kingdom - Lifestory Group

Lifestory Group

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Bath, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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About us

We are Lifestory, a vibrant business who are proud to design, build, and create high-quality homes with a focus on independent later living.

Our developments are beautifully designed offering stunning community living.

It's a great time to join us as we continue to build on our success through 2023 and beyond and this is an exciting opportunity for a General Manager to join us at our brand new development 'Bath Leat'.

About the role
This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced General Manager.

We'll be welcoming our first home owners and renters from May 2023 so you'll play a crucial role in mobilising our beautiful new development, a stunning community designed for the over 60's.

As well as 68 one and two bedroom apartments Bath Leat, a beautiful development overlooking the river Avon and offering landscaped gardens, social spaces and wellness facilities.

You will manage Health & Safety taking responsibility for property management and use your extensive commercial experience to manage budgets, as well as take line management responsibility for a small onsite team.

This role is focused on ensuring the best possible customer service is provided to our home owners as well as having responsibility for managing service charges, budgets and overall financial control of this development.

About you

To be successful in this role you will be an experienced manager from a similarly high-end development, or hotel with wellness or spa facilities or come from a hospitality management background.

Alternatively, you may also be working in the retirement livingsector.

You will have held responsibility for facilities management, ideally within a multi-site/function environment.

A strong commercial awareness is essential - you will have a high degree of financial acumen and be a natural problem solver with a proven track record of managing SLA's whilst delivering exceptional levels of service, an understanding of budgets and servicecharges is highly advantageous due to the commercial element of this role.

Service is key so you must be a people person with excellent communication skills who strives to deliver the best service in the market, whilst demonstrating excellent facilities management experience in order to maintain our buildings to a high standard.

Must haves:

Experience at General Manager level, gained within a high quality environment
Experience of leading on Health & Safety and a strong knowledge of facilities management
Strong commercial awareness and financial acumen with experience of budget control
Experience of leading, managing and motivating a small team
Confident communicator with a passion for people
Great IT skills (experience of using Google Workspace is an advantage)

Our benefits & rewards

With a basic salary of £40,000 per annum this is a full time, permanent role working 40 hours per week, mostly Monday - Friday with some flexibility for occasional weekends and on a shift pattern basis.

Our customers are making a key decision to invest and take the next step when they decide to move into a Lifestory community.

We know that taking the next step in your career is not that different and we're proud to offer excellent support and developmentacross all areas of our business.

Employees also enjoy a wealth of benefits, including: