Workplace Team Leader

We can offer you:

• A great mix of work including full employee lifecycle administration with the freedom to choose when and where you work
• A culture of trust and empowerment with responsibility and autonomy over your work and the freedom to manage when and how you do it
• The support and encouragement of a great team behind you and friendly colleagues who all want to help you thrive
• A competitive remuneration package with great benefits

The role:

This is an exciting new role as part of the growth of our group.

The Workplace Team Leader will be responsible for leading the Workplace and Document Services functions ensuring an appropriate level of professional service which includes providing a safe, comfortable and operational working environment for our people, visitors and clients.

You will be working alongside the Regional Workplace Manager (South) in translating strategic plans into successful operational outcomes, making the workplace a great place to be, putting our people at the center to deliver the best processes in the right place at the right time.

Your key duties will include:

• Communication with building users, seeking opportunities to develop and promote the Groups contribution to the overall business success
• Establish and maintain good occupant relationships and communications
• Monitor, maintain and review Service Level agreements and manage the ongoing development and continuous improvement of service provision
• Manage the location OPEX and CAPEX budgets, including monthly monitoring and quarterly forecasting
• Responsible for the running of the post room, reception, switchboard, meeting/video conferencing facilities catering, vending, security and cleaning services across international locations
• Responsible for the overall management, performance, motivation, team building, career and personal development of all direct reports

What you will bring to the role:

• A good level of workplace management experience relating to a commercial building operation including demonstrable experience of statutory rules and compliance requirements
• Strong experience of delivering projects and change
• Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to work in a high-pressure team environment, handle multiple tasks and react quickly to matters
• Working knowledge of ESG related topics
• Ability to work collaboratively with other departments
• Demonstrable experience of applying tools and techniques to identify and implement process improvement initiatives
• Working knowledge of ISO9001, ISO27001 and BS10008

About us:

We are committed to driving positive change in our communities, minimising our impact on the environment (we have recently achieved B-Corp status), and ensuring an inclusive, diverse and supportive culture for our people.  We want you to be part of this culture.

It is the people at Shakespeare Martineau that make us so special. By understanding what our people want, giving them the support they need, recognising everyone’s contribution and realising the unique power of teams; together we win.  As a firm we are focused on proactively building and developing diverse teams, bringing different backgrounds, personalities and perspectives together. We play to our strengths, pushing ourselves to be consistently better than yesterday and deliver amazing solutions for our clients. We empower our teams with a high degree of individual responsibility; we self-manage and encourage everyone to be responsible for their own learning, knowing it makes us even better at what we do!  

We believe in trusting our people to make the right decisions for themselves from how you dress, to how, when and where you work – we focus on outputs.

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Agile Working:

We embrace agile working and offer a blended approach to where and how we work.

We appreciate that people have different needs and preferences and we’re keen to be flexible, after all, we value what you do, not where you do it.

We have hubs in Birmingham, Edinburgh, Leicester, London, Lincoln, Milton Keynes, Nottingham, Solihull, Sheffield & Stratford-upon-Avon.  This role will be based between our London and Milton Keynes hubs.

Please be aware, for some vacancies, where we receive high numbers of applications we may need to bring the close date forward.

Due to the nature of the work undertaken, confirmation of employment will be subject to a variety of checks which will be carried out once an offer of employment is accepted. Details of the checks can be found here.

Shakespeare Martineau is a committed equal opportunities employer. We seek to attract, develop and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures. We value and respect individuality and encourage a culture within our business where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths and experiences. Everyone who either applies to or works for the firm is treated equally, regardless of their gender, age, ethnic origin, nationality, marital status, sexual orientation or religious beliefs.