Account Director
We currently have a vacancy for a full-time, permanent Account Director within the Security Division to support and build on the company’s success and growth. The purpose of the Account Director is to provide strategic leadership, assurance, and governance for the security services delivered to the Office for National Statistics, under our contractual arrangements with CBRE.
Please send applications with your CV to tc@samsic.uk
You will have:
- Educated to HND level or above (engineering or technical qualification desirable but not essential).
- Demonstrable commitment to continuous personal and professional development.
- Proven management experience at Contract or Account Manager level or above within, or responsible for, Government Agency security environments.
- Experience of wider facilities management service delivery and people development practices (desirable).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to influence, motivate, and build confidence at all levels.
- High levels of personal integrity, energy, and resilience, with the vision and credibility to act as a role model for customer service excellence.
- Strong analytical and creative problem-solving skills, politically astute, highly organised, and able to prioritise and perform effectively in high-pressure, business-critical environments.
This position involves:
- Providing visible, values-led leadership that consistently delivers service excellence, ensuring all contractual commitments are achieved and progressively exceeded through structured continual improvement.
- Driving the strategic development of the contract by identifying and realising opportunities for growth, innovation, and added value, including expanding service scope, delivering additional projects, improving profitability, and securing successful contract re-tender outcomes.
- Embedding business policies, processes, and governance frameworks across the contract, ensuring they are clearly communicated, understood, and consistently applied in day-to-day operations.
- Championing a strong health, safety, and wellbeing culture, ensuring client and company policies are fully implemented, monitored, and regularly reviewed across all activities, including those delivered by CBRE and subcontract partners.
- Designing and maintaining optimum staffing models that balance cost efficiency with high-quality service delivery, providing resilience to workload fluctuations, incident response, and disaster recovery scenarios.
- Ensuring contracts are resourced with competent, well-trained, and engaged teams, supported by clear role capability frameworks, ongoing competence assessment, and effective succession planning.
- Working collaboratively with operational peers to support business development, share best practice, strengthen teamwork, and contribute to the wider success of the organisation.
- Actively promoting and role-modelling the RISE values and Samsic Pillars, reinforcing a culture of respect, integrity, service excellence, and continuous improvement.