Facilities Management Lead, Uk

Facilities Management Lead, UK & Bahrain

**Job Description**:
UK & Bahrain Facilities Management Lead

Location - Northfleet, Kent (alternative locations available at our Flint or Barrow Mills)

Competitive Salary and Benefits Package

Do you want to make an impact on products that consumers around the world can’t live without? Are you curious about the engineering, technology and development behind some of the world’s most loved brands such as Andrex ®, Kleenex® and Huggies Baby Wipes®? Do you want to work for a company that is passionate about innovation, collaboration and diverse perspectives? Working hard and living well. All to make essentials for better lives worldwide.

Then we have the opportunity for you

The role:
Come and see what you can be at KC

Reporting to the Associate-Director for EMEA FM, and part of the Global FM Team, the UK & Bahrain Facilities Management Lead is responsible for the end-to-end Facility Management of soft and hard services across the UK & Bahrain sites (offices & industrial). You will work in close connection between the onsite leadership team, the FM global function and the IFM outsourced partner in the region.

The portfolio includes 4 manufacturing sites, 1 K-C EMEA HQ and 1 K-C logistics centre for a total of 8M sf.

Key Responsibilities:
Your responsibilities will include but not be limited to the below:
- Drive the Corporate FM Strategies and Service Delivery solution in alignment with the business needs of the internal stakeholders.- Own the direct budget responsibility for annual USD 15-20 MM operating expenses; indirect support of annual REFM capital projects- Drive contract governance framework and escalation strategy with clearly defined escalation processes; monitor effectiveness and adjust as required.- Implement and manage operational risk management standards through the IFM(s) provider.- Manage the audit program and direct performance improvement initiatives.- Deliver on safe operation and compliance with Kimberly Clark, Corporate Security and EHS facility policies as well as all the regulatory requirements; Assure response to emergencies; support business continuity and disaster recovery. Liaise with Environmental Health & Safety (EHS) and Security Crisis Management (SCM) functional leads ensuring IFM delivery of scope.- Support workplace transformation initiatives- Responsible for the communication and implementation of all Corporate FM strategies, policies and procedures

What we’ll need from you:
- Educated to degree level in Business / Facility / Real Estate Management and/or recognised industry certification- Significant (ideally 10+ years) experience in Facilities, Workplace or Real Estate operations- Extensive experience in managing FM services within an FMCG Manufacturing operations environment OR extensive experience working as the outsourced FM Service Provider Lead within an FMCG Company- Experience in supplier relationship, governance, and contract performance management- Experience in forecasting and budgeting process in a corporate environment- Analytical skillset- Excellent English language and communication skills- Proficiency in another European language is a plus

Competitive Benefits

We offer competitive pay and benefits to employees and reward excellence and performance. Our belief in promoting a healthy work-life balance drives us to support our employees’ total well-being, offering comprehensive benefits not limited to gym memberships, private medical insurance, dental cover, employee assistance programme, cycle to work scheme, critical illness cover, travel insurance and a market leading defined contribution pension scheme.

What is it like to work at KC?

The identity of each and every one of our employees makes us who we are and makes our global company of over 40,000-plus employees stronger because of it. We are in the business of providing better care for a better world, for everyone, everywhere. At K-C treating individuals with respect is the way we do business and the way we lead our industry and our world. We’re building an organisation that looks and thinks like our customers around the world and are searching for talented people with different perspectives and varied backgrounds. People like you.

At K-C, original thinking also infuses everything we do; from our drive for innovation to our progressive benefits and opportunities all over the world. Original thinking is about ground-breaking innovation. It’s also creative and problem solving. Agile responses to change and advancing new ideas while advancing your career. Our Ways of Working - Focusing on Consumers, Playing to Win, Moving Fast and Growing Our People - drive our Culture.

Join our manufacturing teams where you can thrive on new technologies, build skills and be part of a supportive, collaborative team that solves real problems in a clean and safe environment.

To Be Considered
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- Kimberly-Clark is an equal opportunity employ