Facilities National Manager

About Avant
Avant is Australia’s leading medical defense organisation with a proud heritage of protecting Australian medical professionals for over 130 years. It was established by a small group of
doctors in 1893, who wanted to “protect themselves from actions arising out of the practice of medicine”.
Avant now represents 82,000 health practitioners and medical students across every state and territory, delivering market leading products and services to meet their professional,
personal and practice needs. Building on this heritage, our vision is to be the most trusted professional partner in supporting doctors throughout their lives and careers.
As a mutual organisation, owned by members and run purely for their benefit, our members are at the centre of all we do. As well as providing products and services to our members,
we play a broader community role by advocating for improvements in the healthcare system and in the quality, safety and professionalism in medicine, through delivering education and
research activities.
The commitment to members and the profession from our ~950 staff has resulted in over 50% of Australia’s doctors choosing to be Avant members, delivered annual revenues of
$445 million and net assets of ~$1.4 billion.
About the Role
This role is responsible delivering and maintaining optimum working environments for Avant staff.
**The principle purposes of the position are to**:

- Manage the working environments for all Avant staff to provide a productive and safe workplace
- Lead a team to deliver high quality service

Key Challenges
- Managing premises across six geographical locations
- Stakeholder management
- Providing high quality service across diverse departmental needs
- Achieving Avant’s preferred culture of a high performing organization with ‘the right people in the right roles with the right competencies for the right outcomes for our members’.

**Key Accountability for the role includes**:

- Office Management: Responsible for the delivery of efficient and cost effective premisesmanagement to provide an optimum working environment for Avant staff;
- Office Maintenance: Liaise with senior management, personnel and external service providers as necessary to fulfil the role and to resolve issues in a timely and professional

manner;
- Office Services: Ensure administrative services are provided for staff such as office supplies and kitchen supplies
- Workplace Strategy: Setting and implementing strategic plans for the provision of premises to align with the business plans of the organisation;
- Lease Management: Ensure execution of the strategic plan by managing the lease profile across all states including negotiation and ongoing management of leases and lease payments
- Project / Fitout: Responsible for the end to end process for fitouts including such activities as budget and cost administration, project management, oversight of the design and

construction management process and relocation activities.
Management of all direct reports and associated responsibilities to ensure the best and most effective performance of the team.
**To be successful you will have**:

- Tertiary qualifications (essential)
- Relevant industry courses and qualifications (essential)
- Successful track record in facilities management
- Project management of large and complex projects such as full office design and fit out
- Lease negotiation and management
- Supplier contract negotiation and management
- Leadership
- Ability to influence constructively
- Financial and commercial acumen
- Emotional Intelligence
- Attention to detail
- Pragmatic and solutions-orientated
- Drive and determination
- Excellent written and verbal communication