Position: Regional Contracts Manager

[Alex - Ground Control Ltd]

Location: London

 

Position: Regional Contracts Manager

 

Salary: Competitive Salary

 

Background

 

We have an exciting opportunity for a Regional Contracts Manager to join our fast paced Operations Team based within a 5 minute walk of Billericay Station. We are offering a competitive salary, semi-annual bonuses, company pension, company stock options and other benefits. Further advancement within the organisation is expected for the right candidate.

 

Roles and Responsibilities

 

The Contract Manager is at the heart of Ground Control’s business. The role is divided into two key components: delivering consistent maintenance service and acquiring and managing additional business. A Contract Manager’s management of his Field Teams and directly employed staff will be a critical success factor to delivering maintenance work on-time to the specified standard.

 

The candidate will ideally have some, but not necessarily all, of the following;

 

• Training Field Teams in "Ways of Working" and expected quality standards.

• Daily quality monitoring of Field Teams' work

• Performance Management

• Recruiting new Field Teams

• Direct Management of Directly Employed Staff

• Effective customer and client relationships

• Providing Management Reports

 

The second key component of the role is ability to price, sell, and manage landscaping work. These works may either be additional work required on sites currently maintained by Ground Control or large landscaping projects implemented as part of a construction project. In order to sell these works, the Contract Manager will have to develop successful working relationships with local client decision-makers: The candidate will ideally have had some, but not necessarily all, of the following experiences before joining:

 

• Two to three years' practical work experience ("on the tools") in landscaping

• Two to three years' management experience in a service business (Aboriculture, landscaping, retail, service engineering, etc.)

• Further education, ideally in Horticulture

• Entrepreneurial experience running his/her own business

 

Interested applicants should apply by sending their CV to the email address in my signature, or directly to [email protected]