Principal, Strategy – London. Salary negotiable

• To lead and manage the workplace strategy team for the UK business
• To work closely with other discipline leads and their teams to ensure execution of the integrated methodology
• To drive the ongoing financial success of the business

What you’ll deliver

• Lead and manage the UK Strategy team and ensure projects are executed to a high standard
• Growth of the UK strategy team, generated by demand from the business and the market for your services
• Strategy to be used to generate integrated projects
• Active contribution to the UK Leadership Team

How we’ll measure it

• Budget and project profitability targets are met
• Client and business satisfaction measures e.g. NPS
• Increased awareness of brand amongst target clients
• Evidence of team members working collaborately to execute to deliver to the company methodology
• Industry recognition for innovation
• Budget and project profitability targets are met
• Peer feedback

What you’re responsible for

• Developing, reviewing and maintaining local Strategy processes, templates and guidelines to enhance the company Strategy offering to clients
• Contribute to the development of and execute the global Strategy discipline business plan
• Implement and execute the global and regional strategy, standards/practices, processes and technology solutions across the UK for the Strategy discipline
• Strengthening Design outcomes and solutions by providing greater insight into the clients’ drivers for workplace change
• Performance reviews
• Adequate resourcing, training and engagement plans are implemented to meet the needs of Strategy Team
• Sound financial management of the Workplace Strategy P&L.
• Driving collaboration across internal teams to enable the effective delivery of the company methodology
• Ensure workforce plans and organisation structure meet the local business needs, leveraging the full capability of our global strategy talent pool
• Creating a culture of high engagement across the Strategy discipline to drive results and maintain the team culture
• Develop and implement risk management plans and ensuring appropriate action is taken when risks arise e.g. legal, reputational and financial risks
• Identifying and collaborating with Client Partnerships to win strategy/integrated opportunities in the market
• Work with Marcomms to build the company brand in the UK, including generation of thought leadership content
• Leading key pitch presentations on Strategy and Design
• Leading and developing high performing innovative strategy teams
• Collaborating with other Principals, Strategy and cross-discipline Principals to ensure the workforce plans and organisation structure meet the needs of their location(s)

Technical knowledge and skills

• Thorough understanding of workplace research, metrics and strategy models, e.g. activity based working, Agile working, etc.
• Experience in leading/conducting quantitative and/or qualitative research
• Understanding of organisation design and development models, change Management
• Project financial management
• Client orientation
• Ability to sell, pitching to win, public speaking including storytelling
• Building organisational talent
• Business acumen, commercial acumen, entrepreneurship, driving for results
• Organisational agility
• Understanding of design/build business model

Qualifications and experience

• Tertiary qualification or equivalent in Workplace, Management, Change Management or equivalent experience
• Led a high performing strategy team in a top tier organisation across a region
• Demonstrated capability delivering industry recognised marquee projects
• Diverse breadth of experience

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