Senior Workplace Manager (Secondment/Fixed Term Contract)

Job Description

Centrica is going through a fascinating period of change. We’re evolving to become a truly purpose-led organisation, helping millions of customers to live more sustainably, simply, and affordably. We truly believe that we have a huge role to play in helping the nation to cut carbon emissions and prepare for a net zero future, and it’s a role we are immensely proud of.

The Senior Workplace Manager is a newly created role, responsible for helping make Centrica one of the best places to work. More specifically, the Senior Workplace Manager will ensure Centrica estates portfolio not only meets hygiene needs but is increasingly an environment to enable colleagues to perform at their best, and to ultimately support commercial outcomes.

You will ensure Centrica work places are safe and well functioning, with the delivery of facilities and catering provision managed through our partners. You will also contribute to the design and delivery of our future workplace and enable that to be translated into a plan for delivery across the next 3-5 years. You will collaboratively work with the People and Property Functions, to enable seamless delivery of services and experience activity in year and holding partners to account for their contribution in line with SLA’s.

The legacy of this role should aspire to be creating a workplace environment where all Centrica colleagues and engaged, enabled, and empowered, and one where colleagues choose to come together to collaborate in service of Centrica’s commercial and people strategies.

• Location: UK Flexible with regular travel as required

• ​Salary: Competitive + car allowance + bonus + private healthcare + generous company benefit

This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract / Secondment

Accountabilities

• Establish and maintain credible and effective relationships with key stakeholders across the breadth of the role, ensuring alignment ok key activities to the workplace plan and site strategy

• This will be highly project driven with the person being responsible for a portfolio of Centrica Workplaces

• Responsible for the delivery office renovations, relocations, and future space planning within the protfolio

• Be able to hold contractors and suppliers to account for delivery against service level agreements and contracts, ensuring value for money, rigorous measurement and benchmarking

• Deliver the inspection testing and service schedule to meet our regulatory requirements for electrical and heating installations, water systems and fire prevention

• Ensure effective measure are in place should a safety, fire or security incident occur to ensure the safety and wellbeing of colleagues and visitors to our premises

• Tasked with elevating the employee experience through the working environment, and in collaboration with Centre’s of Excellence

• Deliver a workplace proposition that focuses on customer and colleague experience, brings to life the Centrica brand when coming into the office, creates optimal utilisation and return on investment

• By Workplace we deliver a broad proposition for all workplaces including physical sites and those working from home and continues to evolve our flexible first approach

• Network externally to bring in best practice and leading edge thinking to ensure team remains relevant and highly skilled

Work Experience

• A proven track record of delivering workplace enhancements that are best in class

• Can demonstrate the ability to lead on key projects and operate collaboratively across functions

• A demonstrable track record of creating and translating business requirements into clear, actionable goals and delivering excellent results and outcomes including enhancing the experience of the people within Centrica

• Experience of inspiring, coaching and building cohesive teams within a corporate environment to deliver exceptional results

• Solid commercial acumen evidenced through achievements, with the ability to make confident decisions to achieve results

• Have experience in the estates / facilities management industry with the ability to bring innovations to the function

Competencies

• Results orientated, highly tenacious and pragmatic, with significant determination and able to demonstrate a balance of assurance and personal humility

• Commercial acumen and broad business understanding

• Relationship driven and can work with multiple contractors through building projects

• Strong influencing and communication skills, at all levels including senior leaders and key external stakeholders across a matrix organisation

• Strong intellectual rigour and an appetite for professional development

• Proven coach and builder of teams

• Strong track record of building successful, collaborative relationships across all levels and business functions

• A skilful team player with the ability to network effectively up, down and across the organisation

• Excellent communication skills; articulate, compelling, engaging and a highly inclusive manager

• Resilient and tenacious and thrives on working in ambiguity

At Centrica we embrace diversity and actively seek to attract individuals with unique backgrounds and perspectives. To build a more sustainable future, we need the best team – a team with a diverse mix of people and skills, where everyone feels welcome and able to succeed. We are dedicated in helping to close the diversity gap and would love to see more females, people of colour and LGBTQ+ employees, as well as those from a variety of cultures and ethnicity to veterans and the differently abled. Supporting diversity and inclusion is a big part of who we are, we are not looking for people to fit into our culture but to add to it!

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This role is being handled by the Centrica recruitment team and NO agency contact is required.