Front of House Operations Manager - London Management · 15 Finsbury Circus

Purpose of the Role

Savills manage a wide range of commercial and residential real estate assets across the UK, including multi-occupied office buildings. Savills Workforce+ FOH is the in-house service provider for Front of House services in a number of these commercial assets. Our ambition is to be the supplier of choice for our internal customers, delivering a service to match the best in the market.

The role of the Portfolio Operations Manager is to look after a portfolio of front of house operations, providing guidance and direction to all direct reports, whilst creating and cultivating a culture of service excellence to strengthen customer satisfaction, team leadership to optimize employee engagement, as well as owning the financial success within the commercial portfolio, ensuring that all aspects of the business reflect Savills’ brand and values.

A regular site visit schedule alongside control of the portfolio’s KPIs in terms of financial, team, and quality performance will require high organisational abilities, diplomacy, a drive and motivation towards excellence, and outstanding relationship building skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Foster a culture of aspirational leadership, acting as the figurehead ambassador for your portfolio and team.
• Proactively manage all aspects of your portfolio, ensuring operational and commercial success.
• Ensure compliance with Savills and FOH specific SOPs.
• Drive the KPIs within your portfolio towards continuous improvement.
• Deliver timely reports and insightful management information from your portfolio.
• Mobilise new contracts as required, including support with TUPE transfers.
• Support senior management in tenders/presentation when required.

Team Management

• Proactively manage your direct reports to develop all aspects of Front of House within their buildings.
• Stay close to the business at all times making recommendations on improvements and innovations.
• Manage the onboarding process, creating welcome packs and onboarding information for new employees.
• Support and develop your direct reports and on-site teams, including performance management, training, succession planning and mentoring.
• Responsible for recruitment and talent management within the managed team.
• Maintain the visual aspect of the Front of House service by managing standards such as uniform and general presentation.
• Issue all standard operating procedures to new employees, ensuring all new joiner guidance documents are signed and returned.
• Manage the training pathway for all Front of House employees, with clear bespoke development and feedback opportunities.
• Write job descriptions and personal specifications to company standards.
• Responsible for direct absence management, both operationally and ensuring all absence is correctly registered within the Cascade system.
• Carry out annual appraisals in a timely manner with all direct reports, providing constructive feedback and support for professional growth.

Service Excellence

• Strengthen the internal reputation of Front of House by providing an exceptional service to employees, customers and users of the service.
• Deliver events and activations across the portfolio, thereby contributing to Savills’ and our clients’ ESG goals and customer satisfaction.
• Ensure a strong focus on service excellence is threaded into every aspect of the department.
• Continuously develop and innovate the standard of our services.
• Encourage a sustainable way of working, bringing forward innovative ways of working with sustainability being a key focus.
• Demonstrate an understanding of competitor and market activity outside of Savills FOH, focusing on best practice, innovation and community.

MOBILE REQUIREMENT

• Implement and deliver a regular site visit and client meeting schedule.
• Attend internal and external meetings, mobilisations and recruitment drives, client meetings and welfare visits, and industry events.
• Respond to all emergency out-of-hours calls in a timely and efficient manner.
• The nature of the role is that shift patterns may go outside of your normal working hours so you are expected to be flexible at times for emergency situations.

COMPLIANCE

• Ensure compliance with all ESG, H&S and security rules and regulations as directed by legal and Savills requirements.
• Responsible for issuing all Front of House Procedures and Policies, ensuring these are signed by all direct reports.
• Ensure all on-site operational manuals are up to date.

FINANCIAL AND OPERATIONAL

• Manage and control the payroll for each Individual/contract where necessary.
• Manage and take accountability for your team's P&L, report to your line manager on a monthly basis on profit/loss.
• Responsible for direct absence management, both operationally and ensuring all absence is correctly registered within the Cascade system.

RELATIONSHIPS

• Build and maintain relationships with the Building Management Teams, your colleagues and your teams.
• Communicate with your line manager and the HR Partner on all and any issues pertaining to HR and Training.
• Engage in constructive dialogue with direct reports and clients, employing positive challenges to achieve desired outcomes.

Qualifications, Knowledge and Experience

• At least 2 years’ experience of managing front of house operations, ideally have previous experience in managing multiple sites and/or multi teams across different locations.
• Experience within luxury hotels or other 5* settings, or the corporate business environment.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and a natural ability to positively influence business decisions.
• Commercial and financial understanding and ability to manage a portfolio P&L.
• Able to demonstrate ability to manage and lead a team of people.
• Highly organised with an eye to detail.
• Passion to achieve excellence in everything they do.
• Ability to handle a large number of projects alongside managing a portfolio of reception/concierge teams and administrational duties.
• Experience conducting HR related meetings, ideally to include disciplinary hearings, investigations and general sensitive meetings.
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office programmes, such as Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams etc.
• A positive attitude, a visible and natural passion for customer services.
• Ability to adapt and adjust to a number of clients, contracts and team styles.
• A strong sense of responsibility and highly professional presentation.
• At least three years’ experience managing and mentoring people.
• As you manage, supervise and/or employ individuals who perform licensable activities in their job you will be required to hold a non-front line SIA licence which is subject to limited vetting.
• You will be required to hold IOSH managing safely qualification.

Working Hours

Mon – Fri. Business hours (37.5 hours) as required, mostly 9am – 5:30pm. Some evening or weekend work may be required to ensure operational oversight in the 24/7 residential portfolio. This role is home-based, with an expectation of 75% of time spent in Savills UK offices or on-site client premises within the FOH current and prospective portfolio.