Al Futtaim Jobs - Senior Operations Manager - Dubai Festival City Mall | AFGRE | Dubai, UAE (Dubai, AE)

Job Requisition ID: [[97546]] 

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Job Title:                          Senior Operations Manager – Dubai Festival City Mall

Reports to:                      Mall Manager – Dubai Festival City Mall

Direct Reports:               3

Department:                   Mall Management

Location:                          DFC Mall, Dubai, UAE

 

JOB PURPOSE

To assume responsibility for and ensure the efficient operation and delivery of hard and soft services consisting of Housekeeping, pest controlling, waste management & Engineering services for Dubai Festival City Mall.

 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Hard and Soft Service Management:

Management of planned, reactive and incidental works delivery for housekeeping, waste management and pest control. Responsible for implementing soft services plan for festival centre  by directing  team in routine and scheduled jobs; ensuring compliance to set standards and carrying out regular inspection, with the objective of enforcing adherence to safety standards and customer  satisfaction with in allotted budget. Management of air conditioning district cooling maintenance and operations.

 

Contract Management:

Responsible for establishing SLAs and KPIs of the outsourced contractors and track performance levels of the contractor providing soft services against set KPIs and SLAs by routinely assessing performance against checklist, identifying defaults or shortcomings in service levels, and based on same prepare necessary report for management.

 

Supply Chain Management:

Daily management of sub-contractors, consumables and equipment; responsible for tender procedure to ensure probity; Responsible for implementation and monitoring of sub-contractor performance. Inventory management of DFC owned spares. Ensure best value management techniques with in contracts. Development of contract delivery strategy, providing demonstrable operational benefits.

 

Asset Management:

Negotiates and recommends procurement of capital equipment according to the operations need. Ensuring new assets being brought into operations are entered onto pre-planned maintenance program and subject to QA procedures. Manage the approved operational FM CAPEX projects to complete timely as per plans.

 

Staff Management:

Responsibility for management of the staff recruitment, selection, training/ development and succession planning as required for In-House and managing the outsourced contracting Supervisors and staff (approximately 215)

 

Service Standards:

Implements expected service standards to the staff and monitors them in terms of personal grooming, hygiene levels, communication skills and the service offered to guest  with the objective of superior guest experience and ensuring that they appropriately representative of the staff standards of the Festival Centre. Arrange necessary training to maintain / improve standards. Co-ordinate with DFC management, Al Futtaim training centre and external agencies to meet the requirement.

 

Event Management:

Responsible for site wide signage plan and installation. To plan & manage Traffic, Security, housekeeping & Parking execution during events. Coordination with City Management, Police, Civil Defense. 

 

Housekeeping Inventory Management:

Orders, receives, inspects and stores equipment, spare parts and consumables, merchandise commodities, material and/or supplies with the objective of maintaining costs within budget as well as ensuring that there is no stock out situation at any point of time which can lead to inconvenience for the customer. Identify and develop vendor base, with the objective of getting the best prices and quality from selected vendors

 

Coordination:

Co-ordination with Local Authorities: Coordinate with Police, Civil Defense, and Dubai Municipality & City management for site wide requirement.

Coordination with Development: Coordinate with development team for the ongoing construction cleaning, pest controlling & Security Management. Maintain clean & Safe Mall in spite of ongoing construction activities without any break to customer experience.

Coordination with Tenants: Responsible for the coordination with tenants for back of the house facilities, Trash disposal, pest control, Safety & Security issues. This includes coordinating hygiene requirement for F & B outlets

 

Reporting:

Prepare routine and ad hoc reports, with the objective of keeping the management informed about all issues relating to operations of mall and taking necessary action thereof. Prepare monthly financial analysis for operations for the Retail Operation monthly report.

 

Energy Management:

Drive improvement in water and electricity saving initiatives.

 

Standard of Tenants Premises:

Responsible for safety checks on all electrical boards, installations and fire fighting systems.

 

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE & SKILLS

Minimum Qualifications and Knowledge:

University Graduate in any discipline preferred Bilingual (English and Arabic speaking skills desirable)

 

Minimum Experience:

5-7 years relevant experience in a shopping centre/mall/hotel especially with some background in Civil Defense Service would be highly advantageous.

 

Behavioural Competencies:

• Teamwork
• Communication
• Professional Knowledge
• Training and coaching
• Personal Leadership

 

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