Commercial Estate & Facilities Manager - 18-month fixed term contract - Weymouth, DT4 9GH, United KingdomWe are looking for an experienced Commercial Estate & Facilities Manager to join the team for an 18-month fixed term contract, covering maternity leave. You’ll have responsibility for our Dorset, Devon and Cornwall region and will be required to travel throughout our operating region as needed. You’ll be ideally based in Dorset, enabling weekly travel to our sites in Wareham, Weymouth and Ferndown. This is a hybrid role, so we would expect that you can base yourself from home as the work allows, knowing that travel will be required across our sites.In role you will be responsible for a portfolio of workplaces, whether it's health and safety, contract coordination, landlord engagement, or helping commercial tenants and colleagues get the most out of their day you’ll be right at the heart of it all.This is an exciting opportunity to work as part of a friendly and collaborative team, with wider links across Hampshire, Wiltshire, Somerset, Devon, and Cornwall.You will see yourself as a practical, safe pair of hands, with the right experience for the role. You will have sight of the bigger picture and will be equally happy having a one on one conversation with a colleague regarding a failing piece of equipment or talking to senior leaders regarding the purchase of a new IT system to support the team.You’ll need to be comfortable working independently, but also a great team player who can collaborate across departments and regions ensuring consistency in all you do across the wider team.Essential skills & experience: (you will be shortlisted based on the below, so please reference this in your application)Proven experience in estates, facilities and property management, or a related field for a demonstrated period.Strong People Leader, providing support, coaching and communications to support individuals to fulfil their potential within our team.Strong organisational skills and attention to detailExcellent communicator and at ease with stakeholder engagement at all levels.Experience working within and feeding into the creation of budgets, evidencing VFM in all you do.Ability to prioritise a busy workload and respond quickly to changing demandsEffective problem solver, solution orientated, able to manage projects to time, to cost and in line with the team’s objectives.A full UK driving licence, access to a vehicle for work purposes and willingness to travel across the portfolio.Ability to identify and move forward areas of evolution within the team processes and systems.You will be responsible for the estate and facilities management service and health and safety compliance. Our workplaces are a mixture of hub and spoke offices, operational yards s and scheme hub offices. Team responsibility will be for both hard and soft service contracts.About youSuitable candidates for the role will hold the following –A Degree qualification in a relevant subjectIWFM Qualification Level 4 or higherNEBOSH General CertificateEvidence of continual personal developmentRICS certificate in CRE and FMYou won’t be phased that your portfolio is spread across a wide geographic area and you’ll work with the team to quickly understand the requirements within your regions and what the future plans are.You’ll be able to quickly build relationships with the team and the wider business, creating strong relationships with all stakeholders. You’ll be confident with your communication style and will be happy to sell the journey that we will be taking.What’s in it for meWe invest in our colleagues because we know if they have a better day at work, the service our customers receive will be better. The Aster Offer is our offer to our colleagues to ensure they have a great day at work and includes things like:Flexible working – whilst some roles need to be carried out in a specific place at a specific time, where possible we encourage our colleagues to work to their own schedule at a location that suits them, their team and our business’ needsA focus on colleague wellbeing – workshops, an employee assistance programme offering counselling and support, mental health training and a health cash planWe invest in colleagues’ careers and development through our leader and colleague development frameworksDefined Contribution Pension and attached life assuranceVolunteering hours available to all colleagues to enable them to give backSavings at cinemas, gyms, holidays, days out, various shops and eateries and lots moreEnhanced leaveWe celebrate colleagues who go above and beyond with a range of personalised recognition initiativesReady to apply?To apply, please use information provided in the advert and role profile to let us know why you’d be good for the job. Please submit a copy of your up-to-date CV along with a supporting statement.We create an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity and believe that creating an environment where everyone, from any background, can do their best work is the right thing to do.All candidates will be required to verify their right to work in the UK prior to commencement of employment with the Aster Group & it’s subsidiary brands.