Building Services Account Director in London

Location: London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland

Salary: Up to £80,000 plus package

Purpose of The Job

We are looking for an experienced Account Manager to provide leadership, management and development within the building services industry, ensuring financial and operational commitments are met and exceeded. Must have technical building services experience.

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for the day-to-day running of both the hard services, organising the site team and supply chain in order to meet contractual outputs and objectives.
• Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of the contract are exploited, to deliver increased turnover and profitability, ensure additional services and projects are added, and contracts are re-won on re-tender.
• Ensuring business policies and processes are effectively communicated and implemented within the contract.
• Ensure the provision of healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across the business and sub-contractors' activities and are regularly reviewed.
• Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence.
• Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.
• Working with other Operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamwork, and support to colleagues.
• Development of contract financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded.
• Ensure appropriate control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.
• Ensuring a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.
• Promoting and maintaining the core Values of the business.
• Provision of leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.
• Delivering effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.
• Supporting the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings, hosting visits, and support to mobilisation as required on new contracts.
• Provide a learning environment, and appropriate training and development planning. Ensure basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and are able to reach their full future potential.

Accountabilities

• Reporting to the Area General Manager.
• Accountability to the business functional heads, as appropriate.
• Accountable day-to-day to the relevant client contacts.
• Line management responsibility for a contract team and indirectly for relevant sub-contractors.
• Financial responsibility for the delivery of Plan commitments for the contract.

Person Specification

• Interested candidates must possess quantifiable experience within a similar role, delivering into a critical workplace environment.
• Knowledge of Hard Services is essential, with qualifications at HND or higher electrical or mechanical bias.
• A qualification in health & safety (NEBOSH, IOSH) is desirable.
• Strong commercial acumen is essential, and experience of managing a P&L is preferable.
• Excellent communication and management skills are essential.