Facilities Manager

Job Description
About the role:
We're looking for a proactive and experienced Facilities Manager to join our Operations team at Gowling WLG on a 12 month fixed term contract in either our London or Birmingham office. This role is vital in supporting our Property & Facilities Management function during a period of increased demand, ensuring continuity and excellence in service delivery.

You'll be responsible for overseeing supporting day-to-day facilities operations and management of projects, managing relationships, and ensuring compliance with health and safety standards. The ideal candidate will be confident working independently, with strong organisational skills and a collaborative approach to problem-solving.

Within this role you will effectively support, the contracts managed by the Property and Facilities team across all UK properties ensuring a high quality service is provided to building users.

You will also be responsible to ensure all building assets are managed to a high standard and kept in excellent working order and all statutory and regulatory requirements are met.

This role will be can be based in either our London or Birmingham office but will also require travel to our other offices.

About you:
We're seeking a self-motivated and confident Facilities Manager, who will thrive under pressure, managing multiple clients' needs while delivering exceptional service. You'll be strategic in your approach, translating plans into action and building strong relationships with key stakeholders across all levels of the business.

With demonstrable facilities management experience and qualifications, you'll bring comprehensive statutory and regulatory knowledge, a solid understanding of hard services in large office buildings, and a proactive approach to risk management.

You'll have experience leading teams and driving high performance and be willing to travel between UK offices to support a unified team ethos.

What We Can Offer You:
Gowling WLG has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 25 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits, including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave, with the option to buy up to a week's extra annual leave.
• Free private medical insurance, and the option to add family members.
• A generous pension allowance.
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary.
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years.
• Maternity, paternity, and adoption leave schemes.
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes.
• Offices in Birmingham city centre or in London overlooking Tower Bridge, both with onsite restaurants.
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development.

Many of our people work flexibly in some way. If you would like to explore your own flexible working arrangements with us, we are happy to discuss this during the recruitment process.

Equal Opportunities:
Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firm and to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour, nationality, ethnicity, national origins), religion or belief, age, disability, sexual orientation, sex, gender re-assignment and gender identity, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy, maternity, and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLG we seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures, to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyone's potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description, please contact Meg Astley