Senior Building Manager - Lloyds Register Building, London

The Senior Building Manager is responsible for the strategic and operational management of multiple Lloyd’s Register sites, including their headquarters in London, ensuring that all buildings/offices are safe, compliant, well-managed, and operated to the highest standards. The role provides senior-level support to the Facilities Management function, acting as a key liaison between Lloyd’s Register, clients, stakeholders, and service partners. The post holder will lead on stakeholder engagement, compliance performance, service delivery, reporting, and team leadership, with regular travel required to Aberdeen and Southampton to oversee site operations.

Responsibilities

• Provide overall management and oversight of multiple sites within the Lloyd’s Register portfolio.
• Ensure all buildings operate efficiently, safely, and in line with contractual, statutory, and client requirements.
• Travel to Aberdeen and Southampton as required to oversee site performance, attend meetings, and support local teams.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

• Act as a senior point of contact for Lloyd’s Register and key stakeholders.
• Build and maintain strong, trusted relationships with Lloyd’s Register representatives, internal stakeholders, external partners, and service providers.
• Chair and lead engagement meetings, ensuring clear communication, action tracking, and follow-up.
• Represent Savills professionally and proactively at all times.

Compliance & Risk Management

• Ensure statutory and regulatory compliance across all sites consistently exceeds required targets.
• Maintain oversight of Health & Safety compliance, audit actions, and remedial works through designated systems.

Reporting & Governance

• Ensure all weekly, monthly, and quarterly reporting is completed accurately, to a high standard and within agreed deadlines.
• Present to the client weekly.
• Manage and oversee Day 2 and 3 Works remaining from LR Occupation.
• Review reports to ensure they are clear and actionable.

Team Leadership & Management

• Provide strong, visible leadership across the team.
• Oversee, direct, and support on-site and remote team members.
• Promote a culture of accountability, high performance, and continuous improvement.
• Foster excellent working relationships within Savills FM+ and encourage collaboration and shared objectives.
• Hold weekly team meetings, lead monthly team meetings, and take responsibility for performance management and appraisals.
• Report to the Senior Facility Manager.
• Line manages 3 direct reports: 2 AFMs and 1 Event Manager.

Contractor & Service Partner Management

• Oversee contractor performance across sites, ensuring services are delivered in line with SLAs and KPIs.
• Engage with suppliers through monthly meetings to review performance, financial matters, upcoming works, and KPI issues.
• Challenge underperformance and drive service excellence and improvements where required.

Financial & Operational Control

• Raise and manage the Operational Budgets across all sites.
• Monitor spend and resource allocation to ensure value for money and budget adherence.
• Prepare and present monthly financial reports to the client and the Lloyd’s Register Finance Team, highlighting expenditure, risks, and forecasts.

Systems & Processes

• Ensure effective use of internal FM systems including Proactis, Datastation, Compass, Vantify & BYD.

General

• Carry out any reasonable additional duties aligned to the scope of the role.
• Support the client and Savills Team with wider objectives and strategic initiatives as required.

Essential Skills, Knowledge and Experience

• General Education to GCSE standard with an A-C grade in English & Maths or equivalent.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to deal with confidential information.
• Good organisational and time management skills with the ability to prioritise workload and multitask in a calm and professional manner.
• Able to work under pressure to deadlines.
• Proven experience in a Senior Building Manager / Senior Facilities Manager role.
• Demonstrated experience managing multiple sites.
• Strong stakeholder management skills with senior-level engagement experience.
• Excellent understanding of compliance, governance, and reporting requirements.
• Proven leadership experience managing and motivating teams.
• Able and willing to travel regularly to Aberdeen, Southampton, and smaller LR sites.
• Experience working within a corporate or professional services environment.

Desirable

• Proficient in a full range of Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook.
• Understanding of office administration within facilities management/property management.
• Experience dealing with senior level staff confidently with excellent verbal and written communication.
• Understanding of Health & Safety legislation.
• First Aid Trained / Fire Warden Trained.
• IOSH Trained.
• HNC/BEng in Building Services.

Working Hours

• 08:30-17:00 – Onsite.

Please see our Benefits Booklet for more information.