Workplace Design Manager, Real Estate - 6 Month Secondment London, England
Job description
Connect to your Industry
The Workplace Design Manager role has been developed to manage Deloitte’s branded environments across all UK and NSE offices. This is an exciting role which will help to shape the identity, personality and experiences that our clients, our people and society experience within our spaces. We encourage consideration of flexible ways of working, both formal and informal arrangements that allow for the best outcomes for our people and our clients. If this opportunity is of interest to you with some flexibility, please do discuss with us.
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Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.
What brings us all together at Deloitte? It’s how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other, foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most.
Connect to your opportunity
The Workplace Design Manager will develop and implement the design for physical environments, ensuring that the client and people experience is embedded into the space. They will engage with key stakeholders across the firm to ensure all workspace solutions align to the firm’s workplace vision and meet operational requirements.
We’re looking for a creative self-starter who has experience managing a variety of stakeholders to bring our physical space to life in compelling ways that engages both internal and external audiences. A background in or comprehensive understanding of interior design, FF&E and brand is imperative to the success of this role.
The role will involve managing the design and content elements of our Real Estate projects, working alongside internal teams and external suppliers to ensure solutions are to a Deloitte standard. The role will also involve developing and managing the Workplace Design Standards Guide. Essential qualities include the ability to manage external suppliers, high standard of design, technical alignment to designs, and development of workplace principles working alongside the Technology, Brand and Workplace teams.
- Responsibility for managing the FF&E and Brand Workstreams throughout the project lifecycle.
- Alignment with Deloitte Brand guidelines.
- Establishing the brief with key stakeholders.
- Responding to the brief with concept designs, creative ideas, and high-level cost analysis.
- FF&E and Brand Programme development and management.
- Creation of presentations detailing concepts, in alignment with brand and the FF&E strategy and guidelines.
- Supply chain engagement and management for both FFE & Brand.
- Tendering and package negotiation alongside Deloitte Procurement teams.
- Creation and presentation of Stakeholder sign off documents.
- Creation and presentation of Steering Group design packs.
- Responsible for gaining sign-off of FF&E and Branding packages across all stages of the project lifecycle.
- FF&E and Brand Project Cost Management throughout the project cycle.
- Reporting competency to PMO throughout the project cycle.
- Coordination with other client workstreams – Workplace Strategy, Workplace Services, Technology, Change and Comms, Security, PMO, Cost Consultants, Architects, Main Contractors.
- Delivery and Installation sequencing and implementation – FF&E & Brand.
- Sign-off of FF&E and Brand packages on completion of implementations.
- Transition of FF&E into operational support.
- Understanding of Workplace Trends, Materiality, Sustainability, Innovation, and Supply Chain procurement and manufacturing.
Connect to your skills and professional experience
- Strong brand comprehension
- Interior/event space design
- Strong stakeholder management
- Project management – ability to manage large number of projects simultaneously
- Storytelling experience
- Presentation skills
- Understanding of impact measurement and demonstration
- Experience working with architects and reading plans
- Copywriting/editing skills
- Budget planning and accountability
Connect to your service line - Enabling Functions
Collaboration is central to everything we do at Deloitte. Bringing your individual skills and experience, and sharing your specialist knowledge, is how you’ll make a far-reaching impact. Come join us.
Personal independence
Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints. This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm. The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process.
Connect with your colleagues
"We’re in the process of transforming the way we do resourcing, to future proof our offering. It’s exciting and there’s never been a better time to join us.”
Connect to your agile working options
Location: The home office of this role is London
Your Work, Your Way: We call our hybrid working vision Deloitte Works. And it does. We trust you to make the right choices around where, when and how you work. You’ll be able to make decisions about how you work best, to be collaborative, learn from colleagues, share your experiences, build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Having great conversations with your team and your leadership paves the way for great collaborative ways of working.
Our commitment to you
Making an impact is more than just what we do: it’s why we’re here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.
We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we’re nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we’ll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it’s only when you’re comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.
Your expertise is our capability, so we’ll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it’s from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you’ll learn every day. Through world-class development, you’ll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you’ll learn how to lead.
Connect to your next step
A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you’ll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You’ll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you’ll never stop growing, whatever your level.
Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers
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