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JOB TITLE : Deputy Presentation Operations Manager (Cleaning)

LOCATION : St James Quarter Edinburgh

REPORTING TO : Presentation Operations Manager (Cleaning)

SHIFT PATTERN : 5 DAYS OVER 7 40 hours per week

SALARY : Competitive

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Role Overview and Purpose

St James Quarter (SJQ) is a worldrenowned retailled mixeduse destination comprising 850000sf of prime retail food and leisure space a multiscreen cinema a world class W hotel 152 private apartments and a 4star aparthotel.

Purpose of the role

The Deputy Cleaning Operations Manager is a key management role to assist with managing the world class cleaning operation of St James Quarter (SJQ). Overseeing the daily running of SJQ from a cleaning perspective to ensure a welcoming clean and safe environment whilst working closely with all teams. The Deputy Cleaning Operations Manager is responsible for the daily cleaning operations on site supporting the operational delivery including enhanced clean regimes recruiting and engaging the cleaning team all with a focus on enhancing guest experience. The Deputy Cleaning Operations Manager must be a leader and a role model to the cleaning team on site ensuring an engaged and positive culture while maintaining a wellrun effective and innovate cleaning operation.

The job holder will support the Cleaning Operations Manager to ensure a highquality service is delivered and maintained at all times focused on innovation service excellence enhanced cleaning and team morale. Working within the framework of SJQ initiatives and guidelines the Deputy Cleaning Operations Manager will ensure the cleaning operation achieves the high standards and positive interactions with customers as the global flagship of the St James Quarter deserves.

Main Duties

Key Responsibilities / Accountabilities :

Lead the Cleaning / Presentation team to ensure there is a positive motivational supportive working environment.

Ensure advanced planning of all cleaning operations including periodic tasks with clear schedules and sign off of all duties and tasks complete

Manage the daytoday cleaning schedules supporting the operational team to ensure delivery

A focus on training and development of the team to establish good working practices with a vision and focus on both cleaning operation and creating meaningful positive customer experience interactions ensuring weekly training topics are delivered to all teams

Hold regular team meetings with the Supervision Team on site ensuring a one team approach

Manage the recruitment process

Ensuring excellence for Cleaning operations throughout SJQ includes but not limited to :

Security Health and Safety and compliance

Cleaning standards

Colleague Grooming and presentation

Guest and Staff Interaction & Staff courtesy

Ambience of St James Quarter

Best Practice and Innovation

Ensure high standards are always achieved being flexible to meet the changing operational needs on a continual basis and to suggest new initiatives to ensure continuous improvement and best practice are continually delivered.

Conduct daily audits of standards and provide feedback to the teams on a daily basis

Ensure the cleaning and presentation team are equipped and have the knowledge to positively impact the guest experience for all estate users daily

Work closely with all stakeholders and departments at SJQ adding value and promoting team work throughout.

To manage and supervise the delivery of colleagues rosters ensuring operational demands are met and advance planning

Lead and advise the team in managing absence and holiday records including sickness and annual leave for all colleagues

Carry out and manage daily centre audits to ensure high standards of cleanliness and safe environment is always evident throughout the centre

Manage recruitment induction training developing and retaining of colleagues and ensure continued ongoing focus and report on monthly

Support in the delivery and meeting of all site (KPIs / SLAs) ensuring the team are aware of performance and action plans implemented and managed

Delivery excellent leadership communication and motivation to the sitebased team including communicating daily so that a sound communication channel exists in order that team goals can be achieved.

Ensure onsite Supervision Team manage their teams ensuring they are fully conversant with their individual tasks and responsibilities.

Team Management

Lead and support supervision team including holding regular onetoones and creating development plans for the team.

Ensure the team deliver exceptional operational standards along with excellent and meaningful guest interaction

Always ensure effective and consistent communication throughout the team with the assistance of the OperationalSupervision Team.

Work with the Cleaning Operations management team to forward plan staffing ensuring capacity is met with particular attention paid to how the service is scaled during peak without sacrificing on SLAs.

Ensuring all team members are valued employees and have clear development plans.

Work alongside HR and Learning and Development teams to deliver Guest Experience training for all colleagues and participate where necessary.

Communication

Ensure effective operational communication including meetings handovers and reporting.

Attend daily / weekly / monthly business progress meetings and team meetings as required.

Written reports to aid in company communication both internally and externally should prove concise and sound.

General Responsibilities

Be continuously on the lookout for new worldclass services and systems that would enhance our cleaning operation and guest experience offering

Lead the cleaning and presentation standards throughout the estate ensuring daily delivery and forward planning

Ensure that Standards of Excellence are consistent in all our cleaning and presentation standards

Set the example of being a Luxury Hospitality / Retail Services representative within SJQ in behaviour presentation and in all means of communications.

Background & Skills

Preferred experience in similar role ideally within either the Retail Hotel or Tourism and Travel industries.

Able to manage cleaning operation and experience in similar operation

Ability to work in a team environment and autonomously. High energy calm under pressure real team player.

Experience in managing and leading a large cleaning team with a focus on ensuring high morale at all times

Good attention to detail within the cleaning industry

Health and Safety IOSH Managing Safely

Requirements Personal Characteristics

Able to work weekends / late nights shift cover to ensure full management of our operation

Able to have difficult conversations clearly explains initiatives in sufficient detail to gain understanding and the support of internal and external customers and partners.

Considered a go to person for the internal cleaning team on site providing daily direction and support

Credible across service areas creates positive working environments manages conflict.

Demonstrates high personal standards able to identify positive behaviours in others.

Demonstrates consistent excellence in standards behaviours knowledge and skills.

Develops knowledge and skills of others to deliver objectives.

Experienced in training coaching and developing others.

Motivated to participate in development opportunities that increase capability and performance.

Self aware positive interpersonal skills yet determined. Bounces back after setbacks.

Willing to integrate across service areas cross functional customer experience improvements are developed and implemented to the benefit of the organisation.

Requirements Qualifications

Microsoft Outlook Word Excel PowerPoint.

Proven experience in cleaning operational management

Proven experience in developing others.

Benefits

Were proud to offer a great range of benefits including :

• 24 / 7 GP : Both you and your immediate family can speak to a UKbased GP from the comfort of your own home
• Mental Health support and Life Event Counseling
• Get Fit Programme
• Financial and legal support
• Cycle to work scheme
• Access Perks at Work our innovative employee app where you can find :
• Perks : discounts gift cards cashback and exclusive offers
• Life : Search for resources and tools on topics ranging from family and life to health money and work
• Support : Online chat or telephone service for urgent support in a crisis

For more information about ABMs benefits visit our careers page

ABOUT US

ABM is one of the worlds largest providers of integrated facility services. A driving force for a cleaner healthier and more sustainable world ABM provides essential services that improve the spaces and places that matter most. ABM offers a comprehensive array of facility services that includes cleaning engineering parking electrical & lighting energy solutions HVAC & mechanical security and mission critical solutions. ABM delivers these custom facility solutions to properties across a wide range of industries from commercial office buildings to schools airports hospitals data centres manufacturing plants and distribution centres entertainment venues and more. In the UK were proud to service icon sites across the country with more than 10000 team members. For more information visit .

ABM are committed to employment practices that promote diversity and inclusion in employment regardless of age disability gender reassignment sex marriage and civil partnership status pregnancy and maternity status race religion or belief. We are proud members of the Armed Forces Covenant Employer Recognition Scheme.

Required Experience :

Manager

Key Skills

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Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1