Senior Manager, Facilities Management – EMEA

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Job Function:

Environmental Health, Safety (EH&S) and Facilities Services (FS)

Job Sub Function:

Facilities Management & Planning

Job Category:

People Leader

All Job Posting Locations:

Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland

Job Description:

DePuy Synthes is recruiting for a Senior Manager, Facilities Management, located in Ringaskiddy, Cork, Ireland

Job Overview

The Senior Manager, Facilities Management – EMEA is responsible for the end‑to‑end operational delivery of Facilities Management services across the EMEA region, supporting DePuy Synthes sites spanning mature and emerging markets. This role reports into the Director, Facilities Management for EMEA/APAC and translates regional FM strategy into site‑level execution, ensuring safe, reliable, compliant, and cost‑effective hard and soft FM service delivery aligned to DS standards and Project Osprey separation requirements. Operating as the primary EMEA execution lead, this role partners closely with site leaders, regional EHS&S, Quality, Real Estate, Project Delivery, and outsourced service providers to manage daily operations, service performance, risk, and continuity across the EMEA portfolio for all our non-main campus manufacturing sites. 

Key Responsibilities

• Facilities Operations & Service Delivery: Lead the day‑to‑day FM service delivery across EMEA non-campus sites, ensuring consistent execution of global FM standards while adapting to local regulatory, labor, and infrastructure requirements.

• Oversee hard and soft FM services, including building operations, maintenance, utilities, janitorial, security coordination, and life‑safety systems.

• Serve as the primary escalation point for EMEA FM operational issues impacting safety, compliance, or business continuity.

• Vendor & Performance Management: Manage regional FM service providers and site‑level vendors, driving performance against SLAs, KPIs, and service specifications.

• Support regional contract execution, service transitions, and performance remediation in partnership with Global FM and Procurement.

• Identify continuous improvement and cost‑optimization opportunities across the EMEA FM portfolio.

• Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management: Ensure regulatory compliance, audit readiness, and documentation across diverse EMEA legal, safety, environmental, and labor frameworks.

• Partner with EHS&S, Quality, Security, and Legal to manage operational risk, incident response, and inspection readiness.

• Support participation in crisis management and business continuity activities for EMEA sites.

• Project Osprey & Portfolio Transitions: Execute FM readiness activities for site separations, transfers, new locations, and work‑from‑home transitions under Project Osprey.

• Provide FM input into capital projects, site transitions, and lease events, ensuring operational requirements are embedded early.

• Coordinate FM support for site onboarding/offboarding and stabilization activities.

• Stakeholder & Site Leadership Partnership: act as a trusted operational partner to EMEA site leaders, providing guidance on facilities capabilities, constraints, and risk tradeoffs.

• Support alignment between Global FM standards and local site execution, escalating structural gaps or constraints to the Director as needed.

• Data, Reporting & Operational Insights: maintain accountability for FM data accuracy, including asset records, service performance metrics, and issue tracking.

• Contribute to regional dashboards, reporting, and insights that inform portfolio‑level decisions and leadership reviews.

• Scope & Decision Making: Execution accountability for EMEA FM operations across multiple countries and regulatory environments.

• Manage vendor performance, resolve site‑level issues, and escalate risks appropriately.

• As needed, support the APAC non-campus sites for end-to-end operational delivery of FM services.

Qualifications

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Facilities Management, Architecture, Business, or

related field required. Advanced degree preferred but not required.

Experience

• 8–10+ years of experience in Facilities Management, Engineering, or Operations, or related field required preferably in a multinational or regulated environment.

• Demonstrated experience managing outsourced FM service models across multiple sites and/or leveraging strong outsource service provider models for operational execution

• Experience supporting EMEA countries with diverse regulatory and infrastructure maturity strongly preferred.

• Experience in medical devices, life sciences, manufacturing, or highly regulated industries required

Skills & Competencies

• Strong operational leadership and vendor management skills.

• Working knowledge of risk management, safety, compliance, and audit processes.

• Ability to operate effectively across cultures, time zones, and matrixed organizations.

• Clear communicator with strong stakeholder partnership capability.

• Disciplined executor with a continuous‑improvement mindset

• Can drive strong performance governance thru establishing and publishing KPIs and Analytics Dashboards, to drive Data-Driven Decision Making

Other Requirements

• Language: English required; additional EMEA regional languages a plus.

• Travel: ~20–30% within EMEA, with occasional global travel.

 

 

Required Skills:

 

 

Preferred Skills:

Business Case Modeling, Collaboration, Cross-Functional Collaboration, Developing Others, EHS Compliance, Facility Management, Facility Management Software, Fact-Based Decision Making, Inclusive Leadership, Leadership, Risk Management, Security Program Development, Tactical Planning, Vendor Selection, Workplace Accessibility

  

 

The anticipated base pay range for this position is:

€85,000.00 - €146,050.00

 

 

Benefits:

In addition to base pay, we offer the following benefits*: an annual bonus with set target (% of pay) depending on pay grade / location, where the actual amount is based on the employees’ and companies’ performance of the previous calendar year, or sales commissions. Moreover, we offer vacation days, parental leave for a minimum of 12 weeks, bereavement leave, caregiver leave, volunteer leave, well-being reimbursement, programs for financial, physical and mental health. We also offer service anniversary and recognition awards, and subject to the terms of their respective plans, employees - and in some location’s eligible dependents - can participate in several insurance plans. For more information, visit Employee benefits | Supporting well-being & career growth | Johnson & Johnson Careers.

 

*This is for informative purposes only. Amounts and actual benefits may vary by location and are subject to change.