Workplace Strategy Manager

Workplace Strategy Manager

Duration - 6 Months with scope to extend

Location - Bristol / 2 days a week in office

Summary

The Future Workplace team is responsible for defining the shape, size and standards for our future estate. Working closely with divisions to understand their needs, the team translate business strategy, resource needs and talent profile into a location strategy. This is considered alongside commercial data, including asset costs, lease values, pent up demand for maintenance and service costs in order to define an efficient approach to asset management.

This team plays a critical part in delivering our long-term strategy, including supporting cultural change. The Strategic Change Manager will work in the Workplace Strategy team as part of the wider Future Workplace team. It is an exciting and great opportunity to join a diverse, enthusiastic, forward-thinking team who are located across the UK. The team are at the forefront of driving real change across our estate and spearheading new ways of working.

The Strategic Change Manager will help drive continuous improvement in the Group's office estate, working on and supporting our 10-year location strategy and office transformation projects, aligned to the wider organisation and Group's objectives.

Day to day you do:

• Location strategy: supporting the Strategy Leads to coordinate & work with the space planners, data analysts and 3rd party advisors to build a detailed location strategy for the group, developing robust business cases & location strategies assessing different options, ensuring we have the right buildings in the right locations to support the future of the bank.
• Partner Management: proactively engage and form relationships with the wider team and wider business senior partners to develop and agree location plans, reacting and leading emerging requirements and ensuring the strategy is fully understood and any updates / changes are clearly communicated.
• Management of Risks and Dependencies: identify risks and considerations associated with different options and data quality, calling out assumptions and dependencies to ensure the development of robust location strategies.
• Change Management: help lead the business to improved ways of working, working with the wider team to implement sustained cultural change through improvements to the estate
• Storytelling: take a proactive and leading role in developing individual location strategies and business cases as well as feeding into committee papers for Group Executive Committee, Group Cost Management Committee and Future of Work Committee.
• People and Self Development: Manages, motivates and develops assigned team members to build a successful team

Requirements:

• Change Management - clearly defining the change being enacted and leading project teams and partners through the change journey.
• Presentation & Communication - strong presentation and storytelling skills, with an ability to articulate & present complex information simply to collaborators at all levels.
• Critical Thinking - strong creative and conceptual problem solver
• Partner Management - skill at handling customer groups and balancing subtlety and tact with assertiveness.
• Self Starter - takes the initiative to proactively drive projects and is comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, juggling multiple priorities.
• Data Insight - confident in interrogating data to derive insights and develop opportunities.
• Business relocations - Understanding of planning considerations with regard to business relocations
• Property, Places experience, Workplace Strategy
• Stakeholder engagement
• Generating insight, take analysis, and make tangible insights
• Make a strategic recommendation - critical thinking
• MS Suite, Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI useful

If you are a motivated Business Analyst seeking a challenging opportunity to contribute to the success of our client's projects, we want to hear from you. Apply now and join their team as a valued member of their planning department.

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