Job Description

REQUIRED SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in architectural or interior design with work experience in workplace strategy
• Solutions-focused experience of proactively influencing and engaging stakeholders, along with the ability to clearly communicate and 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 test fit planning, space management, including forecasting and planning future demand.
• Experience in reading spatial constraints and opportunities in floor plans for optimized workspace design.
• 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.
• Ability to be effective while working independently and within a team environment.

REQUIRED SKILLS:

Active Listening, Active Listening, Animal Vaccination, Architectural Design, Business, Business Administration, Change Management, Commercial Property Management, Commercial Real Estate Acquisitions, Communication, Data Analysis, Disease Prevention, Financial Acumen, Global Team Collaboration, Graphic Presentations, Interior Design, Lease Administration, Management Process, Organizational Strategy, Real Estate Management, Real Estate Market, Security Strategy, Site Selection Analysis, Social Media, Space Management {+ 5 more}

ROLE DESCRIPTION

Do you have experience in workplace strategy, workspace design and occupancy planning? Are you a strategic thinker with a significant understanding of the workplace market, including current and future design trends?
Our Global Real Estate (GRES) Workplace Strategy team in JCAP is looking for a dedicated and motivated Workplace strategist with a strong design background to join and contribute to our mission of fostering a data-led culture.
Joining the Workplace Strategy team 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.
This role will be based at our Singapore office.

CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• 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.
• Understand spatial advantages and constraints of a floor plan to oversee test fits for functional and inspiring workspaces that support diverse workstyles.
• Track trends in workplace furniture, finishes and technology.
• Think strategically and creatively, articulate challenges, and demonstrate how the workplace and portfolio strategy can address them.
• Monitor and track 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.