Full-Time

Area General Manager

Posted on 9/11/2026

BGIS

BGIS

5,001-10,000 employees

Global facilities management provider

No salary listed

London, UK

In Person

Category
Business & Strategy
Required Skills
CRM

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Requirements
  • Experience managing operational contracts and client relationships.
  • Ability to manage contract financial plans, including revenue, profit, margins, work in progress, debt, cost reduction, and contract growth.
  • Ability to ensure statutory, policy, contractual, health and safety, and operational commitments are met.
  • Ability to lead competent teams, implement succession planning, and manage staffing structures across a portfolio of contracts.
  • Ability to support business development, solutions development, presentations, client consultations, site visits, and mobilisation of new contracts.
Responsibilities
  • Provide strategic leadership, management, and development for a defined contract portfolio.
  • Ensure contractual, financial, operational, statutory, policy, and health and safety commitments are met and exceeded.
  • Develop strategic opportunities that increase turnover and profitability, add services and projects, and support contract renewals through re-tendering.
  • Communicate and implement business policies and processes across contracts.
  • Ensure staffing structures balance cost reduction with service excellence and support workload peaks, troughs, and disaster recovery.
  • Ensure contracts are staffed by competent teams and maintain effective succession planning arrangements.
  • Work with other Operational Managers to support collaborative business development, effective teamwork, and colleagues.
  • Develop contract financial plans and accurately forecast revenue and margins while delivering plan commitments.
  • Maintain appropriate control systems for statutory, policy, and contractual compliance.
  • Maintain customer focus and effective relationships with key client contacts.
  • Provide leadership, guidance, coaching, training, assessment, recognition, and direct support to employees.
  • Deliver business communications through management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, reporting, and publications.
  • Support the sales process through solutions development, presentations, consultation meetings, client visits, and mobilisation of new contracts.
  • Provide a learning environment and training and development planning so employees are competent and can achieve their future potential.
  • Report to the Director or Divisional Director and remain accountable day-to-day to relevant client contacts.
  • Line-manage a small team primarily comprising Contract Managers and Supervisors across a portfolio of contracts.
  • Take financial responsibility for delivering plan commitments for the contract portfolio.

BGIS provides facilities management and real estate services for buildings and real estate portfolios around the world. Its services cover the day-to-day operations, maintenance, and support needed to run workplaces and built environments, often bundled as integrated facilities management for clients.

Company Size

5,001-10,000

Company Stage

N/A

Total Funding

N/A

Headquarters

Markham, Canada

Founded

1992

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What believers are saying

  • BGIS won Sydney Airport general FM services in April 2026.
  • BGIS won Victorian Government facilities management in January 2026 across 291 properties.
  • BGIS won Australian War Memorial maintenance in January 2026, reinforcing public-sector credibility.

What critics are saying

  • Veritas closes Q4 2026 and can force harsher margin discipline immediately.
  • Indeed reviews in July 2026 describe toxic management, unpaid hours, and poor progression.
  • A major customer loss in government or aviation would crush retention and valuation quickly.

What makes BGIS unique

  • BGIS combines technical IFM with proprietary digital facility management across mission-critical environments.
  • Its scale spans 65,000 facilities and 620 million square feet globally.
  • BGIS’s portfolio includes data centers, government sites, healthcare, and aviation assets.

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Benefits

Paid Parental Leave

Employee Referral Bonus

Employee Discounts

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

10%

1 year growth

10%

2 year growth

10%
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