FM Continuous Improvement Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Holborn Store Support Centre and Home, London, EC1N 2HT
Contract type: Fixed-Term Assignment
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 01 May 2025
Requisition ID: 302279
We’d all like amazing work to do, and real work-life balance. That’s waiting for you at Sainsbury’s. For a FTSE business, we move incredibly fast. When we’re not handling projects, we’re helping all corners of the wider group with what they’re trying to achieve. And around here, you can see the results of your work as soon as you walk into a store, which gives you a real sense of purpose and responsibility. Better still, the team around you will listen to your ideas and opinions, and you’ll have every chance to try something new. The sheer scale and complexity of our set-up means there’s always something else around the corner, and we’ll help and support you every step of the way. We’re trusted to get on with it. So get ready to make things happen here.
What you'll do
As a FM Continuous Improvement Manager / FM Strategy Analyst in the FM team, your main responsibility will be to carry out detailed analysis using FM data systems, providing strategic guidance to the FM team and supporting colleagues in identifying deliverables and actions resulting from analytics projects. By combining quantitative and qualitative data, you will help inform strategic objectives and enable the absorption of wider property and retail metrics into FM analysis. Furthermore, you will be responsible for maintaining data accuracy, generating innovative solutions to FM challenges, and analysing trends to make long-term strategic decisions for the business.
Who you are
You are a highly skilled professional with a strong background in data analysis, particularly within the realm of FM. With your strategic mindset and experience in FM-related strategy, you play a critical role in supporting the FM and Property teams by providing data-driven insights to inform strategic decision-making. Your exceptional analytical skills, proficiency in tools such as MS Excel, and ability to combine qualitative and quantitative data enable you to spot trends, perform detailed analysis, and identify root causes to drive efficiencies and improvements in FM service delivery. With your strong communication and stakeholder management skills, you effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams and present insights to senior managers. Your attention to detail, commercial acumen, and commitment to accuracy ensure the integrity of data and information provided, allowing for informed strategic planning and long-term decision-making within the FM department.
What you need to do
- Carry out detailed analysis using the FM data systems to provide strategic guidance for the FM team.
- Apply analysis within context, supporting colleagues to identify the deliverables and actions resulting from analytics projects.
- Combine strategic and operational approaches with qualitative and quantitative data to deliver against strategic objectives.
- Understand the requirements of peers to develop project outcomes and requirements.
- Review data analysis tools focusing on defining the right output, particularly highlighting opportunities for efficiencies and cost reduction.
- Support colleagues to develop management information for supplier performance.
- Work cross functionally to enable wider property and retail metrics to be absorbed into FM analysis to inform strategic decisions.
- Collect, utilise, and analyse the correct data metrics which allows measurement for FM performance.
- Track savings targets and highlights areas of opportunity and risk.
- Perform budget formulation based on a data lead approach highlighting requirements on spend and performance.
- Responsible for the upkeep and integrity of data and systems to ensure accuracy and correct information is always provided.
- Innovate by defining solutions to technical and operational problems through the application of data.
We are committed to being a truly inclusive retailer so you’ll be welcomed whoever you are and wherever you work. Around here, there’s always the chance to try something new — whether that’s as part of an evolving team or somewhere else across the business - and we take development seriously and promise to support you. We also recognise and celebrate colleagues when they go the extra mile and, where possible, offer flexible working. When you join our team, we’ll also offer you an amazing range of benefits. Here are some of them: Starting off with colleague discount, you'll be able to save 10% on your shopping online and instore at Sainsbury's, Argos, TU and Habitat, and we regularly increase the discount to 15% at points during the year. We've also got you covered for your future with our pensions scheme and life cover. You'll also be able to share in our success as you may be eligible for a performance-related bonus of up to 10% of salary, depending on how we perform. Your wellbeing is important to us too. You'll receive an annual holiday allowance and you can buy up to an additional week's holiday. We also offer other benefits that will help your money go further such as season ticket loans, cycle to work scheme, health cash plans, salary advance (where you can access some of your pay before pay day) as well access to a great range of discounts from hundreds of other retailers. And if you ever need it there is also an employee assistance programme. Moments that matter are as important to us as they are to you which is why we give up to 26 weeks’ pay for maternity or adoption leave and up to 4 weeks’ pay for paternity leave. Please see www.sainsburys.jobs for a range of our benefits (note, length of service and eligibility criteria may apply).
