Contracts Managers (Grounds Maintenance)

CONTRACTS MANAGERS– LONDON AND THE SOUTH

Due to our clients continued growth they are urgently seeking to hire two Contracts Managers for there commercial Grounds Maintenance business. These roles will be based across London and Reading, Basingstoke and Portsmouth there business has continued to expand and has averaged 20% growth for the last 8 years to the point where they are one of the leading external environment management companies in the UK. The candidates they are seeking will be dynamic, experienced and committed. They will have excellent horticultural experience and be self-motivated and a self starter, maybe you have run your own business?

The contracts manager is at the very heart of their business and focuses on two key activities; delivering consistent high quality maintenance service and acquiring and managing additional business. Your ability to manage both directly employed staff and our independent field teams will be critically important. Key success factors will include:
· Training Field Teams in “Ways of Working” and expected quality standards
· Daily quality monitoring of Field Teams’ work
· Performance Management
· Recruiting new Field Teams
· Direct management of Directly Employed Staff
· Effective customer and client relationships
· Providing management reports
The second key component of the role is ability to price, sell, and manage landscaping work. These works may either be additional work required on sites currently maintained by the client or large landscaping projects implemented as part of a construction project. In order to sell these works, the Contract Manager will have to develop successful working relationships with local client decision-makers to:
· Accurately price new maintenance sites under tender
· Identify, price and supervise additional works on existing maintenance sites
The ideal candidate will be a proven Manager looking to progress in an exciting, forward thinking company. The candidate will ideally have had some, but not necessarily all, of the following experiences before joining:
· Two to three year’s practical work experience (“on the tools”) in landscaping or grounds maintenance
· Two to three year’s management experience
· Further education, ideally in Horticulture
· Knowledge Housing Associations would be beneficial
· Entrepreneurial experience running his/her own business

Circa £35,000