Regional Contracts Manager

1 month ago

Ashford, United Kingdom Landscape Services Full time

Brand: Landscape Services

Role: Regional Contracts Manager

Location: East Kent, covering; Thanet, Canterbury, Folkestone, Maidstone, Ashford (Work van included in package)

Salary: £40,000 (45 hours per week)


Landscape Services, part of the Commercial Services Group, is a specialist provider of outdoor maintenance and management services, particularly around grounds maintenance, arboriculture, horticulture and landscaping projects. They use their 80+ years of public and private sector expertise to deliver valuable, safe and assured results for our customers, developing adaptable solutions in line with our core values, and theirs, whilst simultaneously helping to sustain our natural environment.


The Role

Landscape Services are seeking an experienced Regional Contracts Manager to manage their contracts in Thanet, Canterbury, Folkestone, Maidstone and Ashford.


The successful candidate will have proven experience of managing high-value grounds maintenance contracts and be able to utilise their skills to support operationally when required. Landscape Services have contracts with schools, parishes, roundabouts, highways, waste sites, as the Regional Contracts Manager, with support from the Assistant Contracts Manager, you will instruct and organise staff through proactive planning of routes and rounds, whilst ensuring resource, material and contract requirements are met.


A clear and demonstrable knowledge of health and safety, risk assessment and safe working practices is essential for this role.


A current, clean driving licence and full DBS check (provided by the Company) is required.


In return we will offer you:

  • 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
  • Never work a birthday again You receive an extra day off for it to enjoy however you wish
  • Company Vehicle
  • Life assurance cover
  • A culture of progression and development
  • Plus many more perks


Key Duties:

  • Organising and overseeing the daily and weekly scheduling and management of the operational teams’ workload, ensuring specific routes and rounds are followed
  • Attending, arranging and hosting customer and site meetings, which may include the pricing and supply of quotations for ad-hoc works
  • The regular use and updating of our various systems, including a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) tool, Asset Management tool (Itemit), Works Management system (Comms360) and a variety of shared forms and data through Excel or similar
  • Leading and development of the operational staff, including productivity and morale, wellbeing and general performance management – including disciplinary and performance reviews - to ensure delivery against agreed KPIs. Arranging training and development opportunities, and conducting regular team meetings and 121s, ensuring site monitoring information is used as a tool to make positive change and improvement
  • Planning, organising and supervising all equipment, staff and materials to avoid wastage and ensure compliance with required standards. Ensuring chemical usage complies with current legislation


What we need from you:

  • 5 years industry experience
  • Prior experience managing high-value grounds maintenance projects
  • Clean Full UK Driving Licence
  • Knowledge of all aspects of grounds maintenance and soft landscaping
  • Ability to interpret specifications, plans, quotations and customer requests
  • Strong leadership and communication skills
  • Strong scheduling and logistics skills
  • Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office Suite


About Commercial Services Group

Commercial Services Group (CSG) is the largest, local authority-owned trading company (LATCO) in the UK, wholly owned by Kent County Council. CSG generates over £800m in revenue per annum and provides services to over 16,000 education and public sector customers globally.

CSG is striving to be recognised as the global leader in Education and Public Sector services, currently operating in 86 countries, with 1,800 staff across 28 trading brands, providing expertise ranging from: HR Services, IT Services, Energy, Education Resources, Procurement and many more.

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