International. Facility Management is a discipline that has been consolidated in recent years, the profile of the Facility Manager has gone from being a purely executing actor, to being a management figure that adds value with his work. This factor has led to valuing experience, but without forgetting personal skills, in particular empathy.
IFMA Spain, Spanish Association of Facility Management, has analyzed the profile of Facility Management and the trends that will lead it to have a relevant role in the companies of the future.
According to the experts, in relation to their training and trajectory, most of the Facility Managers come from other sectors, such as, for example, construction. Although they confirm that this trend is changing, "the new circumstances have caused the need to require profiles with a specific technical training". For this reason, more and more professionals begin their journey in the sector directly thanks to postgraduate degrees or the completion of a master's degree.
In addition, in a new stage, where digital transformation is inevitable and essential for the survival of any sector, these new business models "need analytical professionals and strategic partners who provide and manage real estate services but at the same time, assume the associated risk", as detailed from IFMA Spain. That is where the Facility Manager comes into play, a profile that must "analyze trends and anticipate the needs of companies."
In this way, their role is increasingly necessary, since "companies need to delegate all those support functions to specialized people, who add value and can predict the future". That is only achieved with specialists, whose day to day is focused on "improving the facilities of companies and employee satisfaction".
Therefore, the new profiles that are incorporated into the sector must be prepared and trained both professionally and personally, with a capacity for empathy and critical spirit. "Candidates to apply for a job must have, mainly, a global vision of the market and a great analytical capacity and adaptation to the new needs of the company and the market itself," says Francisco García Ahumada, president of IFMA Spain.
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