CONTRACT MANAGER - Grounds Maintenance
Radlett, Hertfordshire
Glendale is a family owned company, established in 1989 and delivering ‘green services’ throughout Great Britain. Glendale’s activities include grounds management, landscaping, countryside/estates management, horticulture and arboriculture.
Turnover in 2023 is expected to be £50m and we are proud of our reputation as a high quality service provider. We pride ourselves in providing high quality services and customer satisfaction.
Committed to the environment, Glendale is a Carbon Neutral business that seeks to improve the environment through our activities. We go above and beyond to ensure that the planet is not adversely affected by our business. Our activities include: ensuring local parks and open spaces are maintained to a high standard, tree safety is maintained by our arboricultural teams, mature trees are saved by our Civic Trees business and we ensure we meet the biodiversity net gain ambitions of our corporate clients. Glendale offers the full range of landscape services from one unique source.
Glendale currently delivers in excess of £4m p.a. of commercial grounds maintenance to corporate clients across the UK and now seek a Contract Manager to head up our successful territory covering North London and the home counties.
Branded as a GEM contract (Glendale Estates Management) Glendale established our GEM brand to support our entry into the corporate maintenance sector. Now with c12 established GEM offices, we are able to offer a national service to clients, supported by locally awarded contracts to offer scale, additional services and greater flexibility to our clients.
Operating on a hybrid model of depot, site and remote working teams, our services from this office cover North London, Essex, Hertfordshire, Beds and Bucks, Avon and the South West.
The Opportunity
This is an outstanding career opportunity with a market leader to deliver a strategically important contract offering the full range of services. Clients bridge a number of sectors from retail, offices, pubs, hotels and schools to prestige housing, parkland and estates. A diverse portfolio of clients to differing specifications and requiring a flexible approach to service delivery using a team of multi-skilled professionals.
Services include complete landscape maintenance including grounds maintenance, grass cutting, horticultural services, cleansing, winter maintenance, consultancy services including tree safety, landscape improvements and habitat creation.
The successful candidate will have a demonstrable track record of managing grounds maintenance and project teams and be able to drive productivity whilst ensuring our team provides a quality service. You should have a strategic outlook to enable continuous improvement and identify opportunities and efficiencies along the way.
This is a hands-on role involving monitoring the progress of teams on-site and taking quick and effective action to maintain both high productivity and client satisfaction. You will have full responsibility for the Contract accounts and production of weekly and monthly reports.
The Person
Candidates should be well organised, and have skills and experience in people and contract management, with a passion for parks, conservation, countryside & the natural environment. Above all they need to possess excellent leadership ability, enthusiasm, excellent people management and communication skills. A horticultural qualification and a good understanding of IT and field management systems would be preferred.
You should have a strategic outlook to meet short, medium and long-term objectives and champion continuous improvement and community involvement.
What can Glendale offer you?
Glendale is a well-established business that is continuously growing. Successful applicants can look forward to joining a company that can offer career prospects and believes in investing in its people. The average service of our managers in the South is +10 years.
If you are interested in applying for this role, we suggest that you do so at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as interviews will be held throughout the process. Please note that if you have not received correspondence within 21 days then please assume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
For more information visit www.glendale-services.co.uk.
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Job Types: Full-time, Permanent
Salary: Up to £40,000.00 per year
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Work Location: In person