Unit Manager for Catering and Cleaning Services

Are you in a leadership position within the cleaning services area in a company or municipality and feel ready for new challenges? Are you looking for a flexible job during the day? Then you might be the one we are looking for!

Job Highlights:

• A department in strong development
• Collegial network with central support functions
• Engaged colleagues, employees, and a good working environment

Your Responsibilities

As a unit manager within the Catering and Cleaning Services department, you have a broad and responsible assignment. You lead the cleaning unit with a focus on the municipality's values and create a positive working environment where structure and clarity are central. You are responsible for personnel, working environment, quality, economy, and results within your area.

You work strategically to develop the operations and ensure that resources are used efficiently in line with the municipality's economic goals. By developing and implementing action plans and strategies, you contribute to achieving the municipality's overall goals and visions.

You follow up and evaluate the unit's results, initiate improvement projects, and ensure that the operations comply with laws, regulations, and municipal guidelines. The role also involves representing the cleaning unit internally and externally, collaborating with the department head, other unit managers, and external actors, as well as handling feedback and complaints in a professional manner.

Examples of Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the cleaning unit's budget and resource management
• Develop and implement strategies and action plans
• Participate in the municipality's crisis preparedness work
• Together with colleagues, be responsible for specific focus areas

Your Profile

For the role, we are looking for someone who has:

• Relevant higher education or other education or experience that the employer deems equivalent
• Cleaning services education is an advantage
• Several years of documented leadership experience, preferably within cleaning services
• Good knowledge of data and Swedish (spoken and written)
• Knowledge of relevant legislation
• Experience in budget work, financial follow-up, change management, and development work

Leksand Municipality values leadership highly and has three managerial competencies that are considered crucial for success in the role of manager:

• Goal-oriented – You take responsibility for the whole, set direction, and lead towards clear goals. You create structure and drive the work forward so that we achieve results that make a difference.
• Collaborative ability – You build trust, promote open dialogue, and create engagement. Through collaboration and good relationships, you strengthen the operations both internally and externally.
• Brave – You lead with judgment and decisiveness, dare to make decisions even in challenging situations, and create security by being clear and consistent.

The competencies have been specifically developed for managers in Leksand Municipality and form the basis for a present and developing leadership.

In addition to the managerial competencies, you need to have a strategic approach and the ability to see the whole. You plan long-term and adapt your decisions to develop the operations in line with the municipality's goals. As a leader, you motivate and create participation, which is crucial for building a positive working environment and driving improvement work. Your communication skills enable you to handle dialogue and conflicts constructively, which is important in a role with many contact surfaces – both internally and externally.

About the Workplace

The department is part of the Sector of Operational Support and has approximately 140 employees within the departments: Administration, Finance and Payroll, HR, IT, Communication, Security and Preparedness, Catering & Cleaning Services, and Customer Service. The sector's mission is to create the best conditions for other sectors in the municipality to focus on their core activities.

Within the catering and cleaning department, you will be part of a management group with the department head, unit managers, and administrative coordinators. Within the cleaning unit, you will lead together with another unit manager assigned areas with team leaders, cleaners, and service hosts.

The cleaning unit works to provide professional service and expertise in the field.

We Offer You

For us, it is important that all our employees find a balance between work and home, feel secure in their employment, and experience an increased quality of life by working in the municipality. If we succeed in this, there are good conditions for also succeeding in our common task, which is:

• We do what we are supposed to do by taking joint responsibility for our democratic mission, using our resources wisely, and always keeping focus on those we are here for.
• We do it well and are proud of our work and the results we achieve, and we welcome engaged and brave employees who want to develop and improve together with us.
• We do it together by collaborating and learning from each other. Dialogue is important to us, and we find new solutions together with those we are here for, with trust, care, and respect.

We strive for a health-promoting work climate, job satisfaction, community, and personal development. Competence development is a given, and we encourage our employees to further develop through courses, training, and networking.

On our website, we have gathered information about what it is like to work with us. For more information, please see www.leksand.se/jobbahososs (www.leksand.se/jobbahososs)

For you as an applicant, we have the opportunity to offer relocation services, see further www.rekryteringslots.se (www.rekryteringslots.se)

Your Application

To ensure the quality of the recruitment process in Leksand Municipality and to enable good communication with our applicants, we ask you to submit your application digitally via the link. The application documents consist of a CV and a cover letter.

Identification to verify your identity must be presented at a possible interview. This is standard in all our recruitment processes. Please note that this position is subject to background checks. The type of check conducted depends on the content and responsibilities of the position. More information about this will be provided to you during the recruitment process.

The deadline for applications is 2026-01-23

Appointment will be made by agreement, and we review CVs continuously, so it is good if you submit your application as soon as possible. Feedback on any questions related to the position will be answered no earlier than January 2nd.

Follow us also on social media.

Welcome with your application!