EOI - Workplace Strategy & Change Management (Manager to Associate Director Level)

Job ID

38393

Posted

11-Apr-2022

Areas of Interest

Design, Workplace Strategy

Location(s)

Hong Kong - Hong Kong

The Role: Workplace Strategy & Change Management (Manager to Associate Director Level)

CBRE is now actively looking for talents across the Manager to Associate Director level to join our Workplace Strategy Team in developing and shaping the future of workplace for our clients. Consider yourself a strategic thinker as much as a designer? Wear that change evangelist badge proud? We might have something for you.

The Location: Hong Kong

The Team/ The Business: You will be working with a global company, with the support of highly collaborative and supportive colleagues in delivering outstanding services to our clients, together with the project teams to lead the development of workplace strategy and change management.

What’s in it for you: You will have the opportunity to lead the project for one of our global clients in delivering workplace strategy and solution, to improve the workplace and office environment for the client. This includes the coordination and undertaking of strategic data gathering exercise of the physical, cultural and technological aspects of a working environment, the analysis and the presentation of these results. Our team is well known for their creative and sophisticated strategies that address the commercials requirements and business needs.

What you will be working on:

• Be the Key point of contact for clients.

• Lead the development of strategic workplace brief for small and large-scale workplace projects

• Work closely with key stakeholders and project teams, to translate the information gathered into a meaningful concept, space budget and ultimate client brief that aligns with business drivers and supports the different workstyles of the organization.

• Design and deliver visioning sessions, workshops and focus groups

• Conduct and analyse quantitative and qualitative data from research such as surveys, utilization studies

• Synthesize research from internal and external sources into a workplace brief

• Determine spatial requirements and development of space budget, understanding and knowledge of building code and occupational standards

• Enhance the workplace design complying with building regulations and occupational standards.

You are someone with:

• Over 7 years of experience in workplace project and change management.

• Experience in scoping, pricing, pitching, winning, and delivering projects

• Strong commercial acumen and business development experience

• Ability to work effectively at all levels of the organization and confidently influence others, including executive leadership, towards a common vision

• Strong understanding of current best practices and trends in the workplace and other architecture and design fields. An appreciation of change management principles is valuable

• Clear understanding of best practice and regulatory requirements around building occupancy.

• Knowledge of or experience in qualitative and quantities research methods, agile/flexible/activity based working concept design, space budgeting, test-fit creation/oversight, workplace concept/guideline development, and the use of technology as an enabler.

• Strong quantitative/analytical skills and attention to detail, comfortable in translating large data sets into compelling findings

• Practical hands-on experience of profiling a business and developing a workplace strategy aligned to business need

• Softer skills relating to gaining business buy in/stakeholder management, relationship building, confident to lead client conversations, sell the workplace proposition and deal with resistance around the proposed change

CBRE Asia Pacific is an integral part of CBRE Group, the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm. Over 7,800 professionals focus on the alignment of our clients’ overall business objectives with their real estate requirements. The Asia Pacific region comprises 87 offices (excluding affiliates) across Australia, New Zealand, India, Korea, Vietnam, Japan, Singapore and Greater China including Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan. We work together to provide unparalleled tools and resources, leverage, credibility, market coverage and local expertise.

We work in every dimension of commercial real estate. Our mission is to realize the potential in all the businesses and people we work with, so that together we can create the real estate solutions of the future.

We are driven by the entrepreneurial spirit of our people and the diverse needs of our clients. From instilling confidence in investors today, to re-imagining space requirements for tomorrow, we thrive in complex and ever-changing environments.

Our partnership with our clients goes far beyond a single transaction. With deep market knowledge, unmatched data and proprietary technology our multi-dimensional perspective enables every client and partner to maximize their business outcomes and realize greater success.

We see more, so you can do more.

CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)