Facilities Management Service Delivery Manager - Japan – Vice President

Job ID:R0390935

Full/Part-Time: Full-time

Regular/Temporary: Regular

Listed: 2025-06-03

Location: Tokyo

Position Overview

Details of the Division and Team:

The purpose of the Facilities Management Service Delivery Manager is to take responsibility for the delivery of all workplace facility services, through the Bank’s Tier 1 and 2 vendor partners, along with any change programmes delivered at a local level, not limited to but including reactive works for both established and ad-hoc services.

The Facilities Management Service Delivery Manager has accountability for delivering the DB Global Real Estate vision and strategy, at a country level, focusing on achieving consistent operational excellence and client/user satisfaction through industrialisation, price/value optionality, and leveraging increased automation and the use of technology to ensure Service Delivery and Operations are fully aligned and integrated.

The Facilities Management Service Delivery Manager is accountable for developing and implementing strategies to deliver continuous improvement through implementation of best practices, for execution of transformation and transition projects and for managing service provision through strategic partners and local vendors.

The Facilities Management Service Delivery Manager will develop strong, trusting relationships with leaders within the business and support their team members to achieve trusted advisor status.

What we will offer you:

A healthy, engaged and well-supported workforce is better equipped to do their best work and, more importantly, enjoy their lives inside and outside the workplace. That’s why we are committed to providing an environment with your development and wellbeing at its center.

You can expect:

• Corporate Group Insurance – premium borne by company
• Annual health checkup – cost borne by company (once a year; conditions apply)
• Flexible Work Arrangements – various ways to work, to fit employees’ needs
• Child care and elderly care benefits – corporate discount through designated child care & elderly care vendors
• EAP – free and confidential counseling, online work-life resources
• Employee networks – Diversity, volunteering, sports, family care - various activities to participate
• Special leaves entitlement

Your key responsibilities:

Service Delivery Management

• Local oversight of the Service Delivery line in support of the Bank’s business operations, ensuring services are delivered effectively and operational platforms are maintained to the highest standard, with minimal risk to the Bank’s business operations.
• Actively participates in the development of short, medium and long term plans for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of service delivery that will generate a significant, positive impact on the business unit's profitability/cost containment objectives and strategic direction.
• Drives the implementation of the service delivery platform, including development of new solutions, processes, policies and organisational structures/models, ensuring stability of existing operations at all times.
• Drives the implementation of innovative business change solutions, including Divisional and DB-wide initiatives. Plays an active role in new product/service development, process and performance improvement initiatives, to deliver industrialised solutions and client optionality.
• Actively manages operational performance against agreed financial and non-financial targets for assigned products/services, including benefit of investment initiatives.
• Actively drives the development and benchmarking of world-class operational standards and ensures their implementation as appropriate.

Performance Management

• Produces and manages performance measures against agreed metrics to demonstrate:
• Satisfactory service delivery
• Performance against Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Delivery of Service Level Agreements (SLAs)
• Key Risk Indicators (KRIs)
• Variance reports demonstrating well managed costs against budget
• Client satisfaction feedback
• Timely submissions that provide clients, colleagues and partner functions with regular and ad hoc Management Information (MI), analysis and insight to drive new thinking, development and implementation of interventions to address changing business needs and reflect market trends.

Finance Management

• Promotes programmes and services that are produced in a cost-effective manner, employing economy while maintaining an acceptable level of quality consistent with DB Global standards.
• Accountable for the local fiscal activities including budgeting, forecasting, savings, expenditure strategies, reporting and audits.
• Participates actively in identifying and cultivating savings opportunities.

People Management

• Creates an environment where people management and development is the number one priority. Empowers, manages, coaches and mentors direct reports and others in the organisation.
• Actively communicates and cascades the business strategy, plans and values at all levels in the organisation driving a high performance culture, enabling effective navigation of the organisation, and supporting efficient decision making.
• Drives the achievement of high performance through effective career management of direct reports, providing equitable opportunities, supporting succession planning and talent management processes to ensure continuous development of people capability & delivery of results.
• Proactively manages tough people decisions to ensure people performance is aligned with organisation imperatives and needs. Addresses individual performance issues, where necessary, to drive for high performance.

Stakeholder Relationships

• Develops and fosters strong, productive working relationships with clients at a senior level. Builds and maintains a robust understanding of the client’s business strategy, key drivers and current issues to inform the development of product/service implementation strategies that will meet client needs, and which reflect external market trends, competition considerations, macro economic factors and DB strategic direction.
• Develops and fosters strong, productive working relationships with strategic partners and local vendors at a senior level. Builds and maintains an understanding of the vendor’s business strategy, key drivers and current issues to support close collaboration on product/service implementation strategies that will meet client needs, and which reflect external market trends, competition considerations, macro economic factors and the Bank’s strategic direction.
• Builds and maintains diverse, productive relationships inside and outside the Bank, with partner functions and external partners. Acts as, or ensures representation on internal decision making forums and external Industry steering groups, ensuring the voice of the Division/Bank is heard and influences change in line with organisational strategy.
• Collaborates with colleagues and influences activities to achieve positive outcomes in the interests of the wider business.
• Collaborates with Global Real Estate colleagues to perform product/service-based performance audits and/or control reviews, including performance of strategic partners and local vendors. Works with the wider team to drive out continuous improvement initiatives that deliver both incremental and step change in performance.

Governance

• Highlights operational, regulatory and other risks to the Country Services Delivery Co-ordinator. Takes ownership for operational resolution and reflects the needs of clients in the prioritisation of immediate and longer term remediation strategies. Works closely with Regional Facilities Management and Business Partners to ensure open, clear communication channels with clients at all times.

Vendor Contract Management

• Ensures strategic partners and local vendors quality of practice meets contractual requirements.
• Actively manages problems and incidents that ensure service partners meet or exceed client expectations.
• HSE, Sustainability & Environmental
• Drives Corporate Social Responsibility initiatives, promoting a culture of sustainability in the workplace.
• Commitment to compliance with health and safety policies and procedures to maintain a positive, healthy, and safe workplace.
• Appreciating the strengths, insights and ideas of all individuals and advocating for the value of diversity.

Your skills and experience:

• Educated to degree level or higher (or equivalent) from an accredited college or university (or equivalent)
• Facilities Management qualification or equivalent
• Occupational Safety & Health qualification
• Purchasing & Supply qualification or equivalent
• Experience and/or working knowledge of International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO), ANSI standards or similar)
• Proven experience in similar senior FM role which includes working knowledge and experience of facilities services such as but not limited to the following: Cleaning, Facility Managers, CRES owned Security, Moves Adds and Changes ( MAC), Health and Safety delivery management at a building level, Strategic occupancy planning (this is performed by a separate team in the Americas) , Space data management (Managing Manhattan), Building and Fabric, Maintenance/general building maintenance (excludes engineering but includes painting carpentry, locksmith, carpeting), Tier 1 Help Desk management, Pest control, Waste Management (including RECYCLING), Non-infrastructure asset management (non –engineering – includes spare furniture, carpet…etc)), Grounds maintenance/landscaping/plant maintenance, Signage (office signs…..etc) , Budgets for our portfolio (FCP and operations budget) , Confidential waste management and shredding (shredding bins…etc)
• Proven project management skills
• Property management experience
• Experienced in undertaking all duties and responsibilities in compliance with the rules and regulations encompassing Equal Opportunities, diversity, sustainability etc
• Knowledge of, and how to develop and implement procurement systems, contracts, asset registers, including managing bids and offers and price-quality relationship
• Working knowledge of proof reading and approving contracts and tender documents. As well as compilation and/or drafting/preparation of the same.
• Experienced in providing Business Continuity
• Disaster Recovery

People skills

• Excellent interpersonal skills in relationship building and relationship management.
• As well as the ability to deal with, and facilitate decision making with a wide range of people.
• Experience of working in cross-functional teams and managing teams to achieve objectives, including goals agreed service providers.
• Experienced leadership skills, with the ability of communicating a vision or goal to others and lead them to achieving it.
• As well as pushes for action and results, and wins the support and help of others
• Excellent oral, written and listening communication skills. Ability to be clear, concise and focused, being able to tailor the message for the audience.
• Exhibits diversity / cultural sensitivity.
• Financial awareness
• Proven ability to manage, and how to compile and implement budgets, forecasts including cost savings reports, and tender financials.
• Ability to prepare financial and operational feasibility / case studies on products / services within your remit
• Confidently uses standard spreadsheets, word processing and powerpoint
• Shares information, best practice, and market intelligence with co-workers and to help others give their best
• Confidently displays an ability to take logical and analytical approach to solving problems and resolving issues. To find solutions using creativity, reasoning and past experience, along with the information and knowledge available to you
• Exhibits self-management for contribution towards personal growth
• Ability to plan, organise and implement tasks within an allocated time frame. Planning, prioritising and organising information that contribute towards short and medium to long term strategic plans.
• Exhibits initiative and enterprising skills that contribute to innovative outcomes
• Ability to manage change and changing conditions. Also able to respond positively to changing circumstances.
• Provides and maintains an audit trail for Facilities Services work streams and activities

How we’ll support you:

• Flexible working to assist you balance your personal priorities
• Coaching and support from experts in your team
• A culture of continuous learning to aid progression
• A range of flexible benefits that you can tailor to suit your needs
• Training and development to help you excel in your career

About us and our teams:

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We welcome applications from all people and promote a positive, fair and inclusive work environment.

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