Facilities Manager of the Year Award

Award winner - Chris Stoddart, Cushman & Wakefield

The winner has an outstanding career history with exemplary experience and support to profession - a good role model - this entrant manages the cradle to grave process with strong commitment to customers and supply chain issues are dealt with robustly and efficiently.

Judging criteria:

Formal letter(s) of support
Curriculum Vitae, career and academic progression
The entrant’s impact on overall business and key achievements
How the entrant contributes to and supports the FM profession

Additional information:

The judges will be looking for evidence of outstanding qualities, including the drive for success, commitment to the customer and knowledge of the core business, combined with an overriding understanding of the impact of FM in achieving the overall business objectives.

In particular, entrants must demonstrate their passion for the FM profession and the achievement of key objectives and initiatives during the past five years. Entrants must clearly identify how these initiatives were quantified and demonstrate the overall impact on the core business service delivery. All entrants must be supported by their employer and the evaluation process may include appropriate reference taking as we welcome third party comment.

The entry submission should also demonstrate the scale and challenges of the organisation, full details of FM interaction, particularly with BIFM and other recognised professional bodies, innovation and achievements, FM team training and development, goals for future career progression and how the entrant will continue to contribute to the FM profession in the future.

Judging team

Lead Judge – Joanna Lloyd-Davies (JLD Consultants Limited)
Support Team – Andy Kelly (Carillion FM), Andy Ractliffe (Amey), Pauline Ledford (Telereal Trillium), Julie Kortens (Channel 4), David Wright (Corporate Property Advisors), Anne Lennox-Martin (FM Consultant & Trainer), Alison Coote (Sodexo)