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Join Macmillan Publishers as a Facilities Manager, overseeing operations and ensuring compliance while providing high-quality service in a dynamic environment.

Responsibilities: Manage day-to-day building operations, vendor negotiations, compliance, and team leadership while ensuring exceptional service and safety standards are met.

Skills: Requires 5+ years in facilities management, strong negotiation and communication skills, and proficiency in Microsoft Office.

Qualifications: Preferred candidates will have experience in contract management and knowledge of property management.

Location: The job is located in New York, New York, United States.

Compensation: $75000 - $80000 / Annually

This role supports the Head of Department in managing facilities operations, contracts, and compliance standards. The Facilities Manager ensures the workplace is safe, efficient, and well maintained while providing consistent, high-quality service standards that meet the needs of employees, visitors, and stakeholders.

What you'll do:

• Facilities Operations & Vendor Management:
• Oversee day-to-day building operations and landlord services
• Negotiate, manage, and evaluate vendor and service contracts (cleaning, maintenance, security, HVAC, etc.) 
• Ensure compliance with building regulations and industry best practices
• Monitor performance metrics and conduct regular service reviews
• Develop strategies for service improvements and cost efficiency
• Team Leadership & Stakeholder Engagement:
• Supervises and develops facilities staff, providing training and performance evaluations
• Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, senior management, landlords, and contractors
• Provides exceptional customer service and communication across the business
• Senior member of Health and Safety team
• Act as Warden or deputy Warden functions
• Contribute to overall policy development and implementation

What you'll bring:

• 5+ years of prior experience in facilities management
• Negotiation, analysis, and prioritization skills
• Strong writing skills
• Excellent telephone skills & verbal communications
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office applications
• Knowledge of property management

This role will have an annual salary of $75k - $80k.

Macmillan Publishers is the U.S. trade company that is part of the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group, a large family-owned group of media companies headquartered in Stuttgart, Germany. Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's publishing companies include prominent imprints around the world that publish a broad range of award-winning books for children and adults in all categories and formats.

U.S. publishers include Celadon Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Flatiron Books, Henry Holt & Company, Macmillan Audio, Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, The St. Martin's Publishing Group, and Tor Publishing Group. In the UK, Australia, India, and South Africa, companies in the Holtzbrinck Publishing Group publish under the Pan Macmillan name. The German publishing company, Holtzbrinck Deutsche Buchverlage, includes among its imprints S. Fischer, Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Rowohlt, and Droemer Knaur.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are actively seeking job applicants who reflect a broad representation of differences, including race, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, physical ability, neurodiversity, age, family status, economic background and status, geographical background and status, and perspective. We believe that the best companies reflect the incredible diversity in viewpoints, backgrounds, and identities of the world in their staffs, and are committed to inclusive hiring across departments and levels. The successful candidate for this position will be an employee of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC.