Unispace Looking for Senior Associate, Workplace Strategy at Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand Full Time

We continue to revolutionize the creation of workplace to meet the needs of today’s ever-changing global brands. Our agile, end-to-end experience, delivered seamlessly across borders, is powered by strong client partnerships and enabled by sound workplace intelligence and transformational technology.

We believe that everyone should work in an environment that inspires productivity, peak performance and delivers wellbeing. Across our 48 global studios we see that positive work environments foster open, collaborative and supportive cultures populated by highly independent, motivated people. While our core business is strategising, designing and building workplaces for some of the biggest brands in the world, we know our people are our #1 asset. We look after them with an extensive Employee Value Proposition program which includes rewards and recognition, career development and a focus on wellbeing.

We are looking for an experienced Workplace Strategist who is passionate about creating meaningful change for high-profile clients. To deliver and challenge convention, apply new thinking from multiple disciplines and perspectives to create solutions for a more profitable, effective, and human business for Unispace’s clients.

You will be integral in the continuous improvement of Unispace processes and systems that enable data collection and analysis. This relies on maintaining an understanding of research methods and emerging technologies that will change the way our clients’ workplaces are designed.

Responsibilities:

• Leading and delivering excellent workplace strategy projects, from winning work through to completing the workplace strategy with impactful spatial translations for clients – this means scoping a project, facilitating workshops, presenting to business leaders, conducting staff surveys, and turning information into insights and recommendations.
• Building the Unispace brand to drive increased strategy and design opportunities.
• Being an active part of our high performing, agile and innovative strategy team, learning from all members of the business as well as coaching & mentoring junior team members
• Driving collaboration across studio teams to enable the effective delivery of our Unispace methodology and building strong working relationships, in particular with our Client Solutions and Design Teams
• Coordination of data collection and analysis while identifying, analysing and interpreting trends or patterns in complex data sets
• Translate and interpret data into meaningful insights, draw conclusions and present findings in a concise and visually appealing format.
• Generate high quality reports and presentations to clearly present findings to internal and external stakeholders at executive level.
• Configuration and coordination of space utilisation studies
• Investigate, scope and coordinate development of new processes and systems to improve and support the above activities.
• Implementing global and regional strategy standards/practices, processes and technology solutions across studios to enhance Unispace’s global capability and effectiveness
• Creating a culture of high engagement and contributing to as well as executing to innovative ideas

Your experience:

• Tertiary qualifications in Business, Property, Architecture, Design, Org Psychology or equivalent, would be advantageous
• Demonstrated capability in independently delivering client projects in a professional service environment
• Pitching for success with high profile clients
• Client focused – understanding client needs and market trends
• Experience in developing, interpreting and analysing business requirements
• Experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative research and analysis
• Understanding of workplace research, metrics and models
• Understanding of design methodology
• Change Management
• Public speaking experience is preferred, but not essential
• Agile working

Why Join Us?

Unispace offers a dynamic and collaborative work environment where you can contribute to ground-breaking projects and shape the future of workplace design. We value innovation, creativity, and a commitment to excellence. Join us to make a significant impact on the way organisations worldwide create their workspaces.

If you’re passionate about challenging convention and driving positive change in the workplace, we encourage you to apply and be part of our innovative team at Unispace.