Facilities and Purchasing Manager - Manchester, United Kingdom - Appcastenterprise

Appcastenterprise

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Manchester, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

The APEM Group is a global environmental consultancy, we work with a range of clients including large corporations and governments to help them understand and solve a wide variety of environmental projects in the UK and globally.

Our successful pioneering work has attracted investment and enabled us to grow and combine forces with other businesses who share our ethos and integrity.

At our core, our people are working towards the protection of the environment across the globe.

Why join us?

As a newly established role, you will have the opportunity to utilise your FM experience and supplier management skills to develop the role in line with the strategic direction of APEM Group.

You will help to establish a well organised, proactive facilitiesmanagement programme and centralised purchasing service that meets the current and future needs of a high growth organisation.

In return we offer you the opportunity to transfer your FM and purchasing experience to a large growing business and over time for you to gain more involvement in strategic reviews and conversations regarding FM/Purchasing and Procurement.

About the role

Working as part of our business support team you will be in charge of a small team in delivering a wide range of functions across the facilities and purchasing activity for a multi-site Group with a geographical spread across UK, Ireland and overseas.

You will also be responsible for the maintenance and upkeep of the buildings, ensuring that they meet legal requirements and health and safety standards.

This will include property strategy, space management, building maintenance, testing and inspections,building administration, security, managing renovations and refurbishments.

You will also ensure the delivery of all hard and soft services including support for cleaning, housekeeping, waste management, emergency call out, PPM, reactive repair as required,including the direction, supervision, and oversight of subcontracted services.

You will also support the adoption across all our businesses of a Group purchasing policy, ensuring that we leverage our Group buying power.

You will ensure suppliers are well managed, playing a key role when purchasing for our office network. You and yourteam will take the lead in managing transport and accommodation costs.

About you

To be considered for this role you will need previous experience in a management role and be wholly responsible for facilities (multi-site) and purchasing management.

You will need an up to date understanding of all statutory certification and regulationsfor commercial properties and the ability to document effectively to aid audit.

You should be able to carry out daily maintenance, scheduling, and inventory stock control.

You will be a skilled negotiator, able to get the best value for money for the APEM Group, ensure that costs are minimised, whilst ensuring good service levels from suppliers.

You will also be able to influence internal stakeholders, winning hearts and mindson the adoption of a purchasing framework. We are also looking for someone with a sound judgement and the ability to think quickly during emergencies.

Next steps
We are focused on creating a diverse and inclusive team.

If you can't tick every box above, then we are still keen to hear from you and are open to supporting your development.

That may be working part time or supporting you to gain experience in a specificarea - we are a growing company and are able to adapt roles to reflect individual skills.

We may also have an associated role that might be of interest.