Head of General Services and Procurement

Comprehensively direct the General Services and Purchasing of the Educational Group, ensuring that its facilities are safe, legal, reliable, efficient, and suitable for educational, university, and sporting activities. You will lead maintenance, works, and supplier relations; control the budget; and develop a common, measurable, and preventive model that allows for the optimization of resources and costs within the SEK Group.

Success means legal, safe, and available facilities; preventive management; controlled investments and budget; aligned teams; demanding suppliers and verifiable savings.

SEK Education Group is looking to hire a General Services and Purchasing Manager.

· Villafranca Campus, where SEK El Castillo International School, Universidad Camilo José Cela, and SEK Guadarrama Sports Club coexist.

· UCJC buildings in Castellana and Lezama.

· Direct the daily operation of maintenance and general services, ensuring continuity of activity and a proportionate response to incidents.

· Design and implement a preventive maintenance plan by installation, equipment, and criticality, including a schedule, responsible parties, costs, and evidence of execution.

· Organize and supervise corrective maintenance, prioritizing incidents according to their impact on safety, regulatory compliance, academic activity, and user experience.

· Manage facilities and associated services, including, among others, HVAC, electricity, plumbing, fire protection, elevators, gardening, cleaning, waste, access control, and minor works.

· Ensure compliance with regulatory inspections, licenses, maintenance contracts, and risk prevention requirements, in coordination with specialist areas.

· Ensure compliance with applicable technical regulations, including RITE, REBT, RIPCI, CTE, and other mandatory provisions and inspections, promoting necessary corrective measures to preserve the legality and safety of the facilities.

· Prepare and control the annual maintenance and general services budget; analyze deviations and propose efficiency measures without compromising safety or service quality.

· Control the annual General Services budget for UCJC and collaborate with SEK schools in preparing their budgets, applying homogeneous and comparable criteria.

· Define service levels, indicators, and monitoring routines; maintain an updated technical inventory, incident history, and facility documentation.

· Coordinate and supervise improvement, remodeling, and repair works in collaboration with external architecture services, center managements, and maintenance managers.

· Prepare annual investment budgets, define the technical scope of actions, and request, compare, and evaluate contractor offers, ensuring deadlines, costs, quality, safety, and operational continuity.

· Supervise, through the General Services Manager and operational managers, the concierge, security, and auxiliary services, including weekends, holidays, and events.

· Direct the provision of cleaning services, waste management, contracts and collections, as well as internal courier and mail services.

· Guarantee the adequate planning of pruning, gardening, disinfection, disinsectization, and deratization treatments, and other recurring actions at UCJC and the Sports Club.

· Supervise the technical warehouse, inventory, and the purchase of materials, tools, personal protective equipment, and clothing for maintenance, drivers, and concierge staff.

· Ensure the administrative and technical maintenance of the fleet: inspections, ITV, management services, transport cards, tachographs, and other applicable obligations.

· Coordinate special institutional security and general services needs assigned to you, with due confidentiality, authorization, and budgetary control.

· Plan with the organizing areas the general services necessary for open days, graduations, meetings, equestrian competitions, sporting activities, and other events.

· Coordinate furniture, assembly, space adaptation, heating or other temporary means, security, and maintenance reinforcements, also outside of regular hours when necessary.

· Organize and control mobility services: UCJC shuttles, VIP transfers, excursions, transport for UCJC and Club events, and support for school transport contracting.

· Review prices, capacity, quality, and route configuration with transport providers, proposing service restructurings when they provide efficiency or improve the user experience.

· Implement prior planning, responsible parties, budgets, security protocols, and subsequent service evaluation for events and transport.

· Supervise the Purchasing department, coordinate its team, and establish priorities, procedures, savings objectives, and control mechanisms.

· Lead processes for supplier approval, requests for quotes, negotiation, award, and periodic evaluation, seeking a balance between cost, quality, service, risk, and sustainability.

· Review contracts and spending categories to identify synergies, volume consolidation, supply alternatives, and recurring savings opportunities.

· Negotiate with service and supply providers, including works tenders and contracts for maintenance, energy, auxiliary staff, security, and other relevant categories.

· Supervise the person responsible for the purchase of school supplies and books, ensuring planning, availability, budgetary control, and quality of service to centers and families.

· Coordinate, directly or indirectly, the purchase of maintenance and cleaning materials, chemical and pool products, gardening supplies, first aid kits, furniture, event materials, stationery, consumables, and other departmental needs.

· Develop common purchasing criteria and tools for schools and the university, coordinating with Finance, Legal, and user areas.

· University technical training in Engineering, Architecture, Technical Architecture, or an equivalent degree.

· Minimum of five years of experience as a Facility Manager, site manager, or in an equivalent position of integral facility and project management, preferably in educational campuses, universities, sports centers, hospitals, hotels, or corporate complexes.

· Demonstrable experience leading internal operational teams and a wide network of suppliers.

· Solid knowledge of preventive and corrective maintenance, technical installations, and applicable regulations, especially RITE, REBT, RIPCI, and CTE.

· Experience in works, preparation and control of investment budgets, tenders, negotiation, and management of contracts and suppliers.

· Proficiency in Microsoft Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint; use of CMMS, ERP, and dashboards will be valued.

· Ability to use artificial intelligence tools in a practical and responsible manner for analysis, planning, documentation, and reporting.

· Ability to prepare complete, clear reports oriented toward decision-making, with identification of risks, alternatives, and recommendations.

· Ability to combine field presence, management rigor, and communication with management teams and users.

· Availability to travel between Villafranca, Castellana, Lezama, Ciudalcampo, Santa Isabel and, progressively, other SEK Group centers.