Assoc. Dir., Workplace Strategy

Job Description

Assoc. Dir., Workplace Strategy

• Based in Singapore, the regional hub for Asia Pacific (AP) and top-ranked biopharmaceutical company on the Straits Times and Statista’s list of Best Employers in Singapore for two consecutive years (2020, 2021).
• Join the premier biopharmaceutical company that has been in Singapore for more than 25 years and in AP for over 60 years.

Our Global Real Estate (GRES) Workplace Strategy team in JCAP is looking for a dedicated and motivated Workplace strategist to join and contribute to our mission of fostering a data-led culture.

Joining 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 contribution is 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.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• 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.
• Deliver workplace innovation projects, organize resources, meet with client leadership and other client representatives, conduct interviews, run workshops, conduct and analyze surveys, and gather, analyze, and summarize data in easy-to-understand presentations.
• Ability to think strategically and creatively, articulate challenges, and demonstrate how the workplace and portfolio strategy can address them.
• Monitors and tracks space and occupancy trends based on local headcount forecasting, business org changes and space requirements.
• Summarize data and create presentations for visible projects for a broad range audience (senior leadership – local teams)
• Liaise and build relationships with local/regional site business leads to ensure that business allocation, adjacency, and workplace plans meet our headcount forecasting and understand how our colleagues' work and space are used.

• Closely partner with colleagues from Facilities, HR, AV and IT to develop workplace strategy recommendations, workspace plans, and pilots specific to a region to support new ways of working.
• Keep current with emerging trends and insights about workplace strategy, design, and standard processes.

WHAT YOU MUST HAVE

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Bachelor's or master’s degree with specific experience in workplace strategy.
• Solutions-focused experience focusing on influencing and engaging customers proactively, along with the ability to communicate clearly to explain design and space opportunities to non-technical individuals.
• A background in making and rationalizing workspace design and allocation decisions, moves with recognition of risks and opportunities of decisions, and a track record of recognizing risks.
• Excellent understanding of current best practices and trends in the workplace and strategic design consultancy.
• Experience in space management, including forecasting and planning future demand.
• Good storytelling and graphic presentation skills (In-Design, PowerPoint, Photoshop, etc.)
• Excellent skills in interpreting and presenting data in PowerPoint, excel, word and social media.
• Excellent verbal and visual communication, presentation and writing skills.
• Strong data analytical skills and the ability to distinguish emerging themes from data and research material to present them innovatively, visually, and concisely.
• Excellent research, data analysis and report-writing capabilities.
• Proficient in Excel and working with numerical data.
• Experience in reviewing and understanding floor plans and workspace design.
• Ability to be effective while working independently and within a team environment.

We are proud to be a company that embraces the value of bringing diverse, talented, and committed people together. The fastest way to breakthrough innovation is when diverse ideas come together in an inclusive environment. We encourage our colleagues to respectfully challenge one another’s thinking and approach problems collectively. We are an equal opportunity employer, committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace

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