CAFM application Manager
Salary: Competitive Plus Benefits
Location: Coventry Store Support Centre - Ansty Park and Home, Coventry, CV7 9RD
Contract type: Permanent
Business area: Finance & Business Development
Closing date: 12 August 2025
Requisition ID: 400009898
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.
Why join us
As a CAFM Application Manager, you will play a crucial role in leading the smooth transition of contracts and FM systems, ensuring high standards and seamless operations. You will have the opportunity to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, driving performance, managing suppliers, and implementing innovative solutions to enhance our services. With a focus on communication, problem-solving, and data analytics, you will contribute to our goal of delivering exceptional facilities to support our corporate, retail, and depot operations.
What you'll do
You will be responsible for the operational delivery of our FM system, addressing any issues promptly and communicating effectively with stakeholders. You will manage the training and project delivery of new and existing FM suppliers, identify root causes and trends, and propose enhancements to improve our capabilities. Your role will also involve establishing commercial impact and requirements of supplier changes, validating contractual payments, ensuring accurate FM system information, monitoring supplier performance, and effectively communicating updates and risks to stakeholders.
Who you are
You are an experienced professional with a strong background in systems management, contract management, and project management. You excel in driving high standards and ensuring a smooth transition when mobilising and demobilising FM contracts, while maintaining service level standards for Sainsbury's Group FM. Your creative thinking, problem-solving skills, and data analytics abilities enable you to identify root causes, trends, and opportunities for process enhancements. Strong systems management, contract/project management, and performance management skills, along with exceptional communication and problem-solving abilities, will be vital in ensuring the success of this role
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).
