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Group Facilities Manager
About Us
At Mercedes-Benz Cars, we're passionate about what we do. Whether we're exploring ways to make motoring more sustainable, or pushing the boundaries of technology, innovation underpins everything we do.
It's an exciting time to join us, why not be part of the journey?
How you'll play your part
We're looking for someone driven and collaborative, who has a track record of driving excellent employee and customer satisfaction and has solid people and line management experience in the FM Industry to join our Corporate Real Estate Team.
In this role, you'll take ownership of Facilities Management services across Mercedes-Benz Head Office in Milton Keynes and our Brand Centre, Mercedes-Benz World in Weybridge, ensuring the delivery of best-value, high-performance operations.
Travel is a requirement for this role, along with a flexible approach to working patterns to support the needs of both locations.
You'll shape and lead strategies that provide industry-leading FM services across both locations, maintaining a stable cost base enabling the business to focus on achieving its core objectives and exceptional standards expected of a premium global brand.
What you'll do:
Lead end-to-end FM operations across Mercedes-Benz UK Head Office and Mercedes-Benz World, delivering best-value performance.
Act as the FM subject matter expert, driving tenders, contracts, small work projects, supporting sustainability, and reporting. Collaborating with key stakeholders including intercompany tenants
Lead in critical situations, managing emergencies, business continuity, and out-of-hours issues as part of the Emergency Committee supporting the Head of Corporate Real Estate.
Manage the third-party CRE Facilities & Site Services team, ensuring industry-leading service standards.
Own service performance and contracts, driving KPIs and challenging suppliers to meet Mercedes-Benz standards.
Support FM budget planning and management, delivering accurate forecasts, cost control, and clear financial reporting.
What you'll bring:
Relevant qualification or equivalent professional experience in FM.
Proven leader of internal and outsourced teams in a premium, customer-facing environment
Strong capability in KPI delivery, contract, and tenant management
Commercially minded, with experience in budget planning and accruals
Calm under pressure, with effective crisis and risk management skills
A decisive problem-solver with sound judgement
Professional, conscientious, and credible, comfortable supporting high-profile brands
IOSH Managing Safely as a minimum
At Mercedes-Benz, we operate with integrity and therefore you are required to maintain ethical standards in accordance with our polices and adhere to the Company's Compliance Guidelines and Policies including Anti-Bribery and all relevant competition law.
What's in it for you
As well as the opportunity to work in a dynamic environment, with a great team and culture, we'll offer you a competitive salary and discretionary bonus structure. We also hope you'll love our products as much as we do, with access to our colleague car schemes. On top of that, you'll be able to join our pension scheme, and you'll get a flexible benefit pot that can be used to find the benefits that are right for you.
We're here to support you - we offer access to colleague wellbeing resources, including an Employee Assistance Programme and Mental health First Aiders. We'll also encourage your development, with the training and knowledge you need to reach your potential.
Who we are
Through the doors of Mercedes-Benz, you'll find a passionate team working to drive creative solutions, who think and act luxury brand in everything that we do. We know that to keep this team motivated, we need to ensure that everyone has equal opportunity.
We celebrate a culture of appreciation and respect, where everyone is valued for who they are. We believe our backgrounds, experiences and cultures contribute to our shared experience and shape who we are and what we do. The diversity of our colleagues reflects the diversity of our customers. This diversity is the driving force behind our ideas.
What's next?
Once you click apply, we'll take you through to the Mercedes-Benz Group careers portal - this is our parent company site, so don't worry, you're in safe hands. Here, you'll find a short application form to complete.
Please be assured that we're here to support you throughout the recruitment process and beyond, and reasonable adjustments are available to any candidates who need them.
Due to UK legislation, we need to let you know that we can only accept applications from those with the right to work in the UK.
Managing your data
We care about your personal data. The General Data Protection Regulation provides you with more control and by submitting an application to us, we consider this to be an agreement to process your personal data in support of our recruitment and selection process.
Data categories that we process in relation to your application are the ones that you provided as part of the application process. We process your personal data in relation to the application, in accordance with the legal requirements. Recipients of your personal data within our company are the managers of the specialist unit in charge of filling the position and the responsible colleagues from HR.
Your application data is held within our secure application tracking system called Taleo - you'll be given access to a candidate zone in this system where you can monitor and manage your application and see status updates. We will communicate with you, by email or phone throughout the recruitment process so that we can keep you updated and inform you of your progress through the recruitment process. You can also seek 'job alerts' once you are registered in Taleo and it's possible your details may be returned in searches we conduct for new positions and we may contact you by email to let you know about them. We limit the storage of your data to the necessary period.
Contact us as for further information.
If you have any questions about any matter relating to data protection or the personal data that we process about you for the purpose of personnel recruiting, please contact the Mercedes-Benz UK Data Protection Officer at the following address: Mercedes-Benz UK Ltd, Legal Department, Tongwell, Milton Keynes, MK15 8BA or datacompliance@mercedes-benz.com.

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