Expert Recruitment for Facilities Management
Our team sources top-tier professionals for key FM roles, supporting your recruitment needs from start to finish.
Introduction
Meeting the Demand for Top Talent in Facilities Management
Facilities management is one of the UK’s largest employment sectors, covering a wide range of essential services. Finding the right talent is critical, especially with a growing skills shortage and increasing competition for senior executive roles.
Here’s how we help:
- Key Roles We Recruit For: We specialise in sourcing talent across all areas of facilities management, including total facilities management, mechanical & electrical plumbing, landscaping, security/manned guarding, parking management, ground maintenance, and pest control.
- Addressing the Skills Gap: As senior-level roles become harder to fill, we use our global network to connect you with top candidates in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and North America.
- Tailored Recruitment Solutions: Whether you’re looking for strategic leaders or operational experts, we focus on finding candidates with the expertise and innovation your organisation needs to succeed.
With over 10 years of experience in executive search for the facilities management sector, we work fast and efficiently to deliver pre-vetted, high-calibre candidates—giving your organisation the leadership it needs to stay ahead.
Finding the Right Facilities Management Candidate
Executive roles in facilities management require much more than just experience in building maintenance—they demand leaders with a deep understanding of large-scale operations and strategic vision.
Key qualities we look for in top candidates:
- Proven leadership: Strong management experience and a track record of guiding teams through complex challenges.
- Capital project expertise: Hands-on experience with large capital projects and financial oversight.
- Boardroom experience: The ability to contribute at the executive level, driving strategic decisions.
- Industry insight: Knowledge of key trends like sustainability and energy efficiency.
- Innovative problem-solving: A creative approach to delivering projects and improving efficiency.
The right candidate might not currently work in facilities management but could have the perfect skills from another industry. We focus on identifying individual strengths and potential, ensuring you get the best talent to overcome the FM talent shortage and help your business grow.
Key Challenges in Facilities Management
Facilities management faces several ongoing challenges that can make finding the right candidate difficult:
- Resource Constraints: Managers are expected to achieve more with fewer resources, tighter budgets, and limited time.
- Skills Shortage: A growing gap in senior-level talent makes it harder to find experienced leaders.
- Stakeholder Complexity: Facilities management often requires balancing the priorities of multiple stakeholders, making alignment essential.
- Operational Efficiency: Maintaining high standards while cutting costs is an ongoing challenge in the industry.
We understand these challenges and tailor our recruitment solutions to address them. Our global reach allows us to find top-tier candidates worldwide, creating a pre-screened shortlist that fits your needs. We handle the initial interviews and salary negotiations to streamline the hiring process, so you can focus on getting the right talent to move your business forward.
Talent Acquisition for Facilities Management
We specialise in placing high-level executives across various key roles, ensuring your organisation has the leadership it needs to thrive. Whether you're looking to fill C-suite positions, Managing Directors, or Vice Presidents, we connect you with candidates ready to make an impact.
Key Roles We Recruit For:
- CEO / CFO / CIO / COO / CTO
- Managing Director
- Commercial / Sales Director
- Global / Regional Director
- Technical / Operations Director
- Vice President of Region
- Vice President of Division
- Vice President of Company
Our approach is tailored to your needs, ensuring we deliver candidates with the expertise, vision, and leadership necessary to drive your organisation forward. If you're ready to start your facilities management executive recruitment, we’re here to help.
Our Approach
We take the time to listen to you and understand your business, the key drivers behind the hire and the importance in relation to your objectives
We will devote time to understand your business goals and role requirements and then develop a search solution that meets your specific needs
We will demonstrate unwavering tenacity, speaking pro-actively and confidentially with every individual with the right experience, in order to be certain we have secured the best person open to your opportunity
Our Services
Choose and adapt one of our three package options.
Connect
Ideal for companies seeking unique talent solutions without immediate urgency.
ASSURE
Ideal for companies seeking assurance in securing top talent for mission-critical roles.
Ideal for organisations looking to outsource their entire recruitment function for scalability and efficiency.
Facilities Management
Further information on our recruiting process
Facilities managers face more pressure than ever, with less time, money, and resources. We simplify the recruitment process to take some of that burden off your plate:
- We handle background checks and initial interviews, so only qualified candidates move forward.
- Our team works closely with multiple stakeholders, in-person or remotely, ensuring everyone's needs are met.
- This streamlined approach lets you focus on the final decision while we handle the heavy lifting.
RPO is a long-term partnership that keeps your recruitment pipeline full. It’s perfect for large FM operations with ongoing hiring needs. We work with you to set clear goals and provide regular updates to ensure we’re always aligned.
RPO Benefits Include:
- Faster hiring timelines
- Cost savings
- Consistent quality of candidates
Our team
Scott leads teams across all our core sectors, placing senior-level professionals in every market. He has completed numerous board-level placements alongside assisting clients with acquisitions.
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Bespoke Services
As well as the core sectors to which we recruit Spencer Riley has a proven track record for helping businesses in a wide variety sectors and getting the results required.
Our meticulous and pro-active approach means we are ideally placed to take on assignments in markets that sit outside of our core business areas. We are also well placed to help with a host of Private Equity Services, Outplacement Services as well with Mergers & Acquisitions
For more information and to discuss your unique situation then please get in touch.
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Spencer Riley’s team of highly dedicated, specialist consultants’ pride themselves on gaining a full understanding of our client’s business,