EQUANS
Compliance & Performance Manager
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Equans is looking for a Compliance & Performance Manager to join our team in Edinburgh on a permanent basis. This is a full-time role working 37.5 hours per week. On offer is a competitive salary, company vehicle or allowance, bonus and benefits package.
Role Overview
The Compliance & Performance Manager is a senior leadership role responsible for the governance, assurance, compliance, and performance framework across the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh account.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the compliance and performance function across the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh account, ensuring all contractual, statutory, quality, audit, and governance obligations are effectively managed and evidenced.
- Act as the senior lead for governance, assurance, reporting, and contract integrity across the account.
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve the account-wide compliance and performance framework to support safe, compliant, and effective service delivery.
- Ensure that all relevant contractual obligations are understood, monitored, and appropriately evidenced across the Facilities and Ancillary service arrangements.
- Own and manage the account’s audit and assurance regime, including statutory compliance, service compliance, commercial compliance, governance compliance, and SHEQ-related assurance activity.
- Lead internal and external audit preparation, coordination, and follow-up, ensuring that findings are understood, actions are assigned, and close-out is evidenced.
- Ensure all audit actions, non-conformances, improvement plans, and corrective actions are robustly managed, tracked, and closed within agreed timescales.
- Oversee the production of monthly, quarterly, and annual compliance and performance reports, ensuring accuracy, clarity, consistency, and high evidential standards.
- Validate performance information and challenge data quality, inconsistencies, or weak reporting where standards are not met.
- Maintain effective governance routines, trackers, registers, and reporting mechanisms to provide clear visibility of compliance status, performance trends, risks, actions, and emerging issues.
- Support the Account Director, Estates Director, and Senior Leadership Team with performance insight, compliance visibility, assurance updates, and risk-based recommendations.
- Provide leadership and coordination for all compliance-related reporting, governance packs, action trackers, risk logs, assurance dashboards, and supporting documentation.
- Ensure robust document control and records management arrangements are in place for compliance documentation, audit evidence, statutory records, policies, procedures, service outputs, and handback-related information.
- Maintain oversight of contract-critical evidence, ensuring records are complete, accurate, current, retrievable, and suitable for internal, customer, corporate, or external scrutiny.
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What We Offer
On offer is a competitive salary, car or car allowance, bonus, and benefits package, which includes:
- 25 days annual leave (+ public holidays)
- Life Cover equivalent to x times annual salary
- Employee discount shopping schemes on major brands and retailers
- Gym membership discounts
- Cycle to work scheme
- Holiday purchase scheme
- 2 corporate social responsibility days per year
- Broad range of learning opportunities, such as professional qualifications, collective/individual training, and personalized support programmes
- Attractive Employee Referral Rewards Scheme
- Access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, and Young Professionals.
- 24/7 Employee Assistance Program and access to mental wellbeing app
Who We Are Looking For
- Significant experience in a senior compliance, governance, performance, assurance, or contract support role within a complex FM, healthcare, technical services, or PFI environment.
- Strong understanding of compliance, assurance, and performance management in a contract-led environment.
- Experience of leading internal and external audits, governance reviews, and structured assurance processes.
- Experience of producing high-quality executive and operational reporting, with strong analytical and data validation capability.
- Demonstrable experience of managing action plans, non-conformances, audit findings, corrective actions, and improvement trackers.
- Strong understanding of contractual compliance, statutory compliance, reporting controls, and document management.
- Experience of working within healthcare, critical environments, or regulated service environments is highly desirable.
- Strong knowledge of CAFM systems, reporting tools, and Microsoft Office applications.
- Advanced organizational skills and the ability to prioritize a complex and demanding workload.
- Excellent verbal communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to influence, challenge constructively, and drive action across multiple teams and functions.
- High attention to detail and commitment to data quality, record integrity, and audit readiness.
- Strong understanding of confidentiality, compliance discipline, and information governance.
- Relevant leadership experience in compliance, assurance, FM, contract support, or performance management.
- Strong working knowledge of governance, audit, reporting, and performance frameworks.
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About Us
Equans is a world leader in energy services with nearly 100,000 employees working in more than 50 countries, with an annual turnover of over 17 billion euros.
In the UK & Ireland, Equans is a provider of technical, FM, regeneration, and energy services – with specialist capabilities in smart buildings, green mobility, district & embedded energy, and decentralized renewables.
Equans’ 13,500 UK & Ireland employees combine these activities to help businesses, public sector organizations, and government to embrace the energy transition towards net zero, and also the digital & industrial transitions that are redesigning the way we move, work, and live.
Equans is a Bouygues group company.
What's Next?
If this role is of interest to you, please click below to register, apply, and track your progress! A member of our Resourcing Team will review your application and be in touch.
As part of our commitment to better reflect the markets within which we operate, we encourage applications from women, ethnically diverse individuals, and people with disabilities, along with all candidates who identify with protected characteristic groups under the Equality Act 2010.
At Equans we’re committed to delivering a culture where everyone’s voice is heard and supported. We know the value a diverse workforce creates, delivering better results for our people, customers, and stakeholders. Diversity and inclusion is at the core of what we do, should you join Equans you'll find a welcoming and open workplace where you're supported and encouraged to be your true self at work.
You'll also have access to our growing employee networks including AccessAbility (representing those with physical and mental disabilities), Encompass (representing the LGBTQ+ community), RISE (representing people from ethnic backgrounds), WOMEN TOGETHER (representing women in Equans), Working Parents, Young Professionals, Veterans and Reservists Network (VaR).
For this role, you must have evidence of the right to work in the UK. Unfortunately, we are not able to offer a relocation package with this job role. Certain roles may require applicants to undergo a Disclosure check, as noted in the role requirements.
The Equans Resourcing Team supports this job advert. Agency involvement is not required. All related enquiries must come to the resourcing team not direct to Equans Managers.
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