Job Description
Workplace Strategy Lead
Our company is a global healthcare leader with a diversified portfolio of prescription medicines, vaccines and animal health products. The difference between potential and achievement lies in the spark that fuels innovation and inventiveness; this is the space where our company has codified its 130-year legacy. Our success is backed by ethical integrity, forward momentum, and an inspiring mission to achieve new milestones in global healthcare.
As we emerge from the post-COVID era, we have continued redefining our workplaces and recognizing the opportunity to develop a workplace strategy to transform where and how we work.
Global Real Estate Strategy is a strategic corporate function that serves Our Company’s global business units, including Manufacturing, Commercial, Technical Operations, Research and Development, and Corporate Units, by identifying and executing creative and innovative real estate and workplace solutions aligned with corporate strategy.
Role Description
Do you have experience leading a team in Workplace strategy, workspace design, and occupancy planning? Are you a strategic-thinking leader with a deep understanding of the workplace market, including current and future trends??
Our Global Real Estate Workplace Strategy team is seeking an experienced team leader to join and contribute to our mission of fostering a data-led culture.
Joining and leading the Workplace Strategy team at our company means playing a pivotal role in shaping our global vision for the future of workspaces and collaboration. Your leadership and strategic experience will be essential in guiding our organization toward innovative and supportive ways of working. Your role is crucial in defining the future of our work environment and fostering connectivity among our teams.
This role can be based at our Headquarters in Rahway, NJ (USA) or London, United Kingdom .
Core Responsibilities
To lead a global team of workplace strategists and support the development and growth of our company’s Global Workplace Strategy proposition to the real estate market.
Be a subject matter expert for our Workplace Strategy team, combining headcount forecast data, design trends, space planning, and occupancy planning to support the organization’s workplace strategy.
Develop a thought leadership strategy to promote our function in the market, identify workplace opportunities, and deliver improvement solutions. We need someone who can think strategically and creatively, articulate challenges, and demonstrate how our strategy can address them.
Management of the Occupancy Planning teams and develop a strategy for the dynamics of Workplace moves, re-organization, and new site/project deliveries.
Understanding of the future of the workplace post-COVID and Working-from-home strategies currently in the market
Keep current with emerging trends and insights about workplace strategy, design, and standard processes.
Education:
A bachelor’s or master’s degree in architecture, Interior Design, or other relevant design-related field with specific experience in workplace strategy.
Required Skills and Experience
10+ years of working experience in workplace strategy, or workplace interior design.
Strong program management and strategy execution skills with experience managing global teams of workplace strategists.
Experienced in delivering workplace solutions and strategies at a campus level within a corporate environment, preferably in a consulting or corporate transformation context.
Experience with budgeting and financial forecasting.
Ability to interact effectively with senior client leaders.
Emotional intelligence. Growth Mindset. Curious. Motivated. Team-oriented. Organized. Flexible. Strong communicator. Fosters collaboration and leading through influence. Consultative approach. Creative & Strategic Thinker. Executive presence. Optimistic when faced with adversity. Perseverance when faced with an extended and sequenced assignment.
Preferred Skills and Experience
MBA, operations, consulting firm and multi-industry experience
The ability to take on greater responsibility in the organization over time.
Employee Status: Full time
Travel Requirements: 25%
Flexible Work Arrangements: Yes
Play your part in our team’s success.
As the direct report to the Executive Director of Global Real Estate Strategy, you will oversee a dynamic and expanding global team focused on creating innovative work environments. Your role will involve leading and collaborating with a diverse global team, allowing you to make significant contributions to large-scale projects worldwide.
Do you have what it takes?
The ideal candidate should have a relevant educational background in Architecture, Workplace Strategy, or similar fields. Additionally, they should have substantial experience leading a team of workplace strategists and delivering large-scale campus strategy projects in different geographies.You should also be skilled in collaborating across functions, working with businesses to provide data-based solutions, and expertise in space planning, user research, occupancy planning and strategy, and space programming.
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Expected US salary range:
$149,400.00 - $235,100.00
Available benefits include bonus eligibility, long term incentive if applicable, health care and other insurance benefits (for employee and family), retirement benefits, paid holidays, vacation, and sick days. A summary of benefits is listed here.
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Employee Status:
Regular
Relocation:
Domestic/International
VISA Sponsorship:
Yes
Travel Requirements:
25%
Flexible Work Arrangements:
Hybrid
Shift:
1st - Day
Valid Driving License:
No
Hazardous Material(s):
n/a
Job Posting End Date:
12/6/2024
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