Digital Workplace Specialist

at  Buro Happold

Thrive on openness, respect, and collaboration? Good. Us too. Buro Happold has an exciting opportunity for a Digital Workplace Specialist for an initial 9-month FTC with the potential to extend.
Buro Happold is currently going through a period of strategic growth. This growth has resulted in an increased demand within the IT and Business Services Team, as we support BAU and drive forward with improvement initiatives.
As an extremely collaborative professional, you excel at building excellent working relationships and possess a high level of political sensitivity and ethics. Your essential soft skills include effective listening, persuasion, a collaborative leadership style, flexibility, self-motivation, creativity, and insightfulness.
The Digital Workplace Specialist will use their knowledge and experience of the Microsoft 365 environment to improve and enhance user experience, knowledge and productivity across the practice.
This role will play a key part in the operational management of the Microsoft 365 suite, working within a managed pipeline. The role acts as a bridge between IT and global Business users, ensuring our systems and processes align to business requirements and needs.
In addition to managing the M365 feature set, this role also leads and supports other areas of improvement in the global business, including the roll out of new solutions, software, tools and platforms.

EXPERIENCE AND QUALIFICATIONS

• Microsoft 365 Subject Matter Expert.
• Excellent working knowledge of M365, including Teams, SharePoint and Power Automate.
• Experience or knowledge of digital transformation and process change/improvement.

A PLACE FOR EVERYONE

Buro Happold values an individual’s flexible approaches to working patterns as an important part of how you work and achieve balance. We welcome applications from those who are seeking flexibility in their careers.
Our exceptional portfolio of projects is the result of the diversity of thought, identities, backgrounds, and experiences that shape us. Appreciating each other’s differences is key, we want employees to feel they don’t have to mask elements of their identity to thrive.
We are working to change the lack of representation of marginalised groups in the built environment. We are particularly keen to hear from anyone who feels they are underrepresented in the industry. We have much to learn from one another. Embracing differences allows us to develop the most innovative and elegant solutions.
Please let us know if there are any adjustments we could make to the application process to make it easier and more comfortable for you. Contact recruitment@burohappold.com so we can work with you to support you throughout your application

• Communicate and explain any new features of M365 (including Teams) to the business, including writing Communications and producing user guidance.
• Working closely with the M365 Team, managing the teams’ pipeline of work and new initiatives.
• Prioritise with key stakeholders and roll-out new functionality to meet business requirements and needs
• Maintain a thorough understanding of existing and emerging M365 core technologies, including MS Teams.
• Work with the M365 wider team to test and configure new feature sets to meet business requirements and QMS policies.
• Update existing and produce new, high-quality documentation and user guides for the wider business.