Facilities Management Appointments for Evelyn Partners

About Evelyn Partners

Evelyn Partners is a professional services firm providing integrated wealth management, professional advisory and financial services to clients across the UK. With a national office network and a strong emphasis on client service, the firm needs a property and facilities function that supports employees, clients and business operations reliably across many locations.

Our work with Evelyn Partners

Maxwell Stephens has recruited across Evelyn Partners' Facilities Management and Property Management functions, including a coordinated five-person programme across several regions and a dedicated search for the South region:

• Senior Regional Facilities Manager
• Two Regional Facilities Managers
• Facilities & Security Manager
• Health & Safety Administrator
• Regional Facilities Manager, South region

A multi-role Facilities Management programme

Evelyn Partners wanted a coordinated recruitment strategy rather than five separate vacancies: a stronger FM team in which every appointee had the right combination of technical expertise, leadership and cultural fit.

The roles

• Senior Regional Facilities Manager. Significant leadership experience and strategic oversight across geographically dispersed locations, with the ability to manage regional priorities, influence stakeholders and give direction across the wider FM function.
• Two Regional Facilities Managers. The experience and autonomy to run Facilities operations in their own areas: operational FM expertise, supplier and stakeholder management, commercial awareness and consistent service delivery.
• Facilities & Security Manager. Workplace and Facilities responsibilities combined with effective security oversight, strengthening operational resilience across both disciplines.
• Health & Safety Administrator. Organisation and attention to detail to support the administration of health and safety procedures and compliance activity.

The challenge

Recruiting five Facilities professionals at once is a different exercise from filling five vacancies one after another. The practical difficulty is sequencing. Senior regional appointments shape how the roles beneath them operate, so there is a case for settling them first, but a client rarely has the luxury of waiting and candidates for the other roles will not stay available indefinitely. The search has to run in parallel while keeping each shortlist honest about its own requirements.

Our approach and outcome

We began with a detailed consultation on each vacancy and the structure of the Facilities function, then built a defined candidate profile for each role. Direct search and targeted outreach through our FM network reached professionals beyond active applicants. Competency-based interviews and screening covered FM experience, leadership, regional and multi-site experience, security expertise where relevant, health and safety knowledge, stakeholder management, commercial awareness and cultural alignment. Close communication with Evelyn Partners kept activity aligned across the roles while each was assessed on its own requirements.

All five professionals were placed. The Senior Regional Facilities Manager brought stronger oversight across multiple regions; the Regional Facilities Managers gave dedicated leadership in their areas with a focus on productivity and cost; the Facilities & Security Manager brought more structured coordination of facilities and security; and the Health & Safety Administrator gave dedicated support to safety and compliance.

Regional Facilities Manager, South region

To strengthen its Property Management function, Evelyn Partners asked Maxwell Stephens to recruit a Regional Facilities Manager to oversee facilities across multiple offices in the South region, bringing consistency, compliance and a high standard of service to a dispersed portfolio. The remit covered regional FM, hard and soft services oversight, outsourced supplier management, cleaning, front-of-house and MEP contractor coordination, health, safety and statutory compliance, emergency response and incident escalation, budget and cost control, stakeholder engagement, office condition assessments, relocation and workplace change, tender processes and supplier transitions, and risk register review.

Offices in a professional services firm are client-facing, and the Regional Facilities Manager is often the only FM presence a local office sees. That puts a premium on judgement, visibility and the ability to get outsourced suppliers to perform on sites the manager cannot visit every day.

Our search focused on candidates with at least five years' facilities management experience, regional and multi-site operations, professional services exposure, and track records in supplier management, compliance, business continuity and workplace relocations. Maxwell Stephens placed a highly experienced Regional Facilities Manager with strong hard and soft services knowledge, outsourced supplier management, budget control and relocation experience, who quickly integrated into the Property Management function and took responsibility for facilities performance across the South region.

Why it worked

Across both assignments, the searches were built around how the roles would actually operate. In the five-person programme, each position was assessed on its own requirements while we kept in view how the appointments would work together as one function. In the South region search, communication and supplier management were treated as hard requirements rather than soft skills, because regional facilities appointments succeed or fail on whether the person can hold suppliers to account across sites they cannot visit daily and whether local office leadership trusts them.

If you need to recruit several Facilities Management professionals at once, or a regional facilities lead across a dispersed office network, get in touch with our team to discuss your requirements.