Unit Facility Manager 100%

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In short

Manage property lifecycles including safety, compliance, and maintenance to ensure operational environments. This role involves leading the FM team, optimizing property efficiency, managing supplier contracts, and building strong relationships with business owners.

Responsibilities

Ensure each property is managed throughout its lifetime including safety, compliance, maintenance and improvement to ensure a safe and operational environment for the business, co-workers, customers and other stakeholders.
Implement relevant property management innovations, digital and technical solutions that meet the needs of the business and the many people.
Lead and manage the execution of Ingka Facility Management (FM) within the unit through the unit FM team.
Optimize the efficiency of each property in a sustainable way.
Ensure that co-workers, service providers and external partners have up-to-date awareness and understanding of all FM frameworks, guidelines and initiatives.
Responsible for all activities related to long term planning, budget estimation, execution, follow up, forecasting and reporting within the FM scope within the unit.
Implement and evaluate supplier contracts at unit level in alignment with internal governance structure for supplier contracts to improve efficiencies/costs/equipment and quality.
Responsible for managing and coordinating external suppliers on unit level.
Manage relationships with Business owners within the unit to ensure business needs are met by collecting requirements, setting annual goals and periodic follow ups.
Responsible for building your team, developing your team's competence, performance and ensuring a succession plan in the unit.

Requirements

Technical background (mechanics, electricity etc.)
At least 5 years of experience in facility management.
Experience in managing and coordinating with external service providers, preferably in a high-volume retail sector.
Proven skills in developing people and provide support, coaching, training, and career direction to others.
Very good knowledge of planning, organizing and managing costs and expenses.
Very good understanding of important FM business processes (e.g. work order management for urgent, scheduled and reactive maintenance, contract and supplier management)
Strong communicator with the ability to influence decisions.
Effective way of working, strong analytical skills with the ability to react flexibly to changes.
Communicate confidently in Italian and English (business fluent), both spoken and written.

Benefits

28 vacation days (based on a 100% workload)
8 weeks paid parental leave for fathers; 20 weeks paid parental leave for mothers
Very attractive social benefits
15% staff discount on your purchase - in every Swiss IKEA store
Between 85% and 100% of your yearly travel ticket covered if you travel by public transport
Unlimited access to the LinkedIn learning platform
Affordable and healthy meals in our staff canteen (CHF 4.50 for meat dishes and CHF 3.50 for veggie dishes)
Bonus payments for all employees
Many opportunities for career development at IKEA. We encourage and support our employees to try out different roles, move between functions or even go abroad.

Skills

Facility ManagementContract ManagementSupplier ManagementBudget ManagementMaintenanceWork Order ManagementInterpersonal SkillsAnalytical SkillsCommunication

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