FACILITIES MANAGEMENT BUSINESS PARTNER

£40,000 - £45,000 plus benefits, including company car (Work level 6A)
Field Based role covering a selection of Co-op Food Stores and Funeral branches across York.
We’re looking for a Facilities Management (FM) Business Partner to join us and support the delivery of our facilities management strategy covering York. This candidate needs to live in York/Yorkshire area, to ensure they are best placed for travel. At Co-op, we’re proud to be the owners of one of the UK’s largest and most varied property portfolios with more than 6,500 properties across food, funeralcare, support centres and residential.
In this role, we’ll look to you to provide an excellent FM service to circa 130 sites. In this varied role, you’ll build relationships with colleagues and suppliers across your region and at our support centre, becoming the key partner for any facilities issues. Your responsibilities will range from handling facilities escalations, to collating information to support decisions on strategy and investment. You’ll also be our first response following major incidents such as crime and flooding so the ability to work under pressure and think on your feet is a must. It’s a big job. But one where you’ll get the chance to develop your profile in a role where no two days are ever the same.

IN THIS ROLE, YOU CAN EXPECT TO

• Deliver operational facilities management consistently and to a high standard across your sites
• Visit sites periodically, engaging and building relationships with field colleagues and partners
• Build meaningful relationships with 3rd party suppliers and make sure services are delivered to a high quality, in time and within budget
• Carry out property audits and inspections, making decisions on how to best maintain our assets in order to keep our colleagues and customers safe and our sites trading
• Work collaboratively with our property teams to support the delivery of capital programmes
• Play your part in providing out of hours support across your division on a rota basis
• Work closely with the senior business partner to plan activity and tackle more complex issues

THIS ROLE WILL SUIT PEOPLE WHO HAVE

• Strong experience of working in an FM role and of managing single/multi sites
• A talent for building and managing strong relationships with a broad range of colleagues, field leaders and partners
• Good general IT skills with the ability to use programmes in the Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, Teams etc.)
• Great organisational skills: you’ll be highly self-motivated and able to prioritise and organise your workload effectively and work on your own, whilst also being part of a high functioning team
• Experience of supporting re-fit activity
• A full UK driving licence