Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services
Soft Services Manager - Security
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Soft Services Manager
Location: Southside Shopping Centre
Contract: Full-time (40 hours, including weekends and flexibility as required)
Salary: Up to £55,000 with annual review and performance bonus
Reporting to: Soft Services Area Manager
About The Role
This is a high-impact leadership role responsible for driving a high-performing, engaged and customer-focused Security and Cleaning function within a key retail destination. You will lead from the front, developing your teams, shaping strategy and embedding a culture of accountability, excellence and continuous improvement.
Southside is a key destination within the Landsec (FTSE 100) portfolio, recently refurbished and central to the Wandsworth community. This role offers the opportunity to influence large-scale operational delivery while building strong stakeholder relationships and driving forward-thinking service strategies.
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & People Management
- Provide visible, hands-on leadership to Security and Cleaning teams, fostering a high-performance, values-led culture.
- Lead, coach and develop direct reports, setting clear objectives, conducting performance reviews and supporting career progression.
- Build a strong succession pipeline through coaching, mentoring and talent development.
- Ensure effective workforce planning, recruitment and retention aligned to business needs and diversity goals.
- Champion Mitie One Code and Elevate principles, embedding them into everyday behaviours.
Operational Leadership & Strategy
- Own and deliver best-in-class soft services through clear standards, governance and continuous improvement.
- Translate strategic objectives into operational delivery plans, aligning teams to wider business goals.
- Drive a proactive, data-led approach to performance using systems such as Merlin, Workplace+ and client reporting tools.
- Ensure consistent, compliant service delivery across all areas of the estate, both internal and external.
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Stakeholder Engagement
- Build strong, credible relationships with clients, contractors and stakeholders across the estate.
- Act as a key representative for soft services, confidently leading audits, inspections and performance reviews.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (QHSE, ESG, H&S, HR) to deliver aligned outcomes.
Performance & Compliance
- Take full ownership of KPIs, SLAs and service standards, holding teams accountable for delivery.
- Lead a culture of safety and compliance, ensuring adherence to all statutory, ISO and British Standards.
- Proactively manage risk, including H&S, fire safety and operational compliance.
Financial & Commercial Accountability
- Manage operational budgets (service charge and non-recoverable), ensuring cost-effective delivery without compromising quality.
- Identify efficiencies and value-add opportunities to enhance service delivery and asset value.
Customer Experience & Innovation
- Champion a best-in-class guest experience through engaged, service-driven teams.
- Drive innovation in service delivery, sustainability and technology adoption.
- Continuously review and improve processes to enhance efficiency and experience.
What We're Looking For
- Proven leadership experience in soft services, with Security and Cleaning experience desirable.
- A strong people leader with a track record of building high-performing, engaged teams.
- Commercially astute with experience managing budgets and driving performance outcomes.
- Confident communicator with strong stakeholder management skills.
- Data-driven mindset with experience using operational systems and performance metrics.
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise and lead in a fast-paced environment.
- IOSH qualification desirable.
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Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.
- We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household.
- Financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme.
- Access to high street discounts through our MiDeals platform.
- Cycle-to-work scheme.
- Life cover of up to four times your salary.
- Enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan.
- Recognition through Mitie Stars with cash prizes up for grabs each month and a chance to win £10,000 at the end of the year.
Progression
Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.
Inclusion and Accessibility
We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing Harnaik Sahdra at Harnaik.sahdra@mitie.com.
About Mitie
Since 1987, Mitie’s 84,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.
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