General Services Manager - Banbury

General Services Manager

Location: Banbury

Salary: £37,300 per annum, depending on experience

Working Pattern: 40 hours per week in line with the business needs, Monday to Friday

Services: Retail, Cleaning & Hospitality

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Are you an experienced soft services leader who thrives in a hands-on, customer-focused environment? We’re looking for an engaging and operationally strong General Services Manager to lead retail, cleaning, and hospitality services on a busy workplace site.

This role offers a varied mix of leadership, service delivery, and light food preparation responsibility. While this is not a chef role, the successful candidate will be comfortable preparing pre-packed hospitality items, assembling cold food, reheating delivered food, and supporting a small amount of basic cooking for hospitality menus.

You will be accountable for service quality, client engagement, financial performance, and people leadership across all service streams, helping to create a professional, welcoming experience for all site users.

About the Role

As General Services Manager, you will take full ownership of the day-to-day operation across retail, cleaning, and hospitality. Acting as the key point of contact for the client and onsite teams, you’ll ensure services are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a consistently high standard.

This is a visible, hands-on role that blends strategic oversight with practical involvement particularly within hospitality preparation during key service periods.

Key Responsibilities

• Overall accountability for retail, cleaning, and hospitality services on site
• Lead and maintain a high standard of hospitality delivery, including: 
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    • Preparation of pre-packed and cold food items
    • Reheating of delivered food for hospitality menus
    • Supporting simple, basic cooking tasks where required
• Build strong, trusted working relationships with the client and stakeholders
• Ensure all services operate in line with agreed KPIs, SLAs, and contractual standards
• Manage financial performance, including budgets, forecasts, and cost control
• Lead, motivate, and develop multi-skilled teams, driving engagement and performance
• Ensure full compliance with health & safety, food safety, and company procedures
• Oversee recruitment, training, rota's, and team development
• Identify and implement service improvements and efficiency opportunities
• Maintain a safe, clean, and welcoming environment for colleagues and visitors

About You

• 3+ years’ experience managing multiple soft service lines, ideally including hospitality and cleaning
• Comfortable supporting basic food preparation and hospitality service
• Strong leadership skills with experience managing operational teams on site
• Confident client-facing communicator with a customer-focused mindset
• Commercially aware with experience managing budgets and operational costs
• Well-organised, adaptable, and able to balance operational and administrative demands
• Knowledge of Health & Safety and Food Safety standards
• Food Safety, IOSH or NEBOSH qualifications desirable
• BICSc credential preferred
• A DBS will be required for this role

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