Workplace Strategy Lead

Senior Workplace Strategist

Workplace Strategy at Gensler is focused on enabling transformation our creative and collaborative approach, supported by data and intelligence, enables impactful change and evolution of our clients' organization, culture, and environment.

Our practice in Morristown is growing and we are looking for a talented senior workplace strategist to lead data-driven projects across our broad range of services including workplace research, workplace scenario development, real estate portfolio strategy and change management. We're focused on developing holistic strategies for a wide range of influential organizations, such as major corporations, healthcare providers, cultural institutions, real estate developers, and universities. We are looking for established practitioners with an entrepreneurial spirit who will help us develop and strengthen our client relationships and evolve our practice.

Your Role

As a Strategy Lead, you will lead teams working with a wide range of clients to develop and deliver insights and workplace recommendations (concerning workplace design, policies, technologies and operations) through your technical expertise. You will leverage client data from a range of sources to evaluate current workplace conditions and develop solutions that support our clients' objectives. Your work will span a wide range of scales, from pilot projects that test new ideas to strategies rolled out across the globe. You'll define and conduct research efforts, synthesize data and feedback into meaningful insights, and develop innovative future state concepts and solutions. You may also propose and build solutions for clients' ongoing data analysis and management.

What You Will Do

On projects, as a Strategy Lead you'll :

• Lead projects, be responsible for work product with guidance from the Project / Strategy Directors
• Develop and implement analytical methodologies for solving business problems to make portfolio or enterprise level decisions
• Develop insights from large scale data sets to determine impact on business goals, organizational culture, or performance criteria for spatial design
• Design and support working sessions with internal teams, clients, and other stakeholders
• Articulate and represent scenarios (with plans, data, feedback, relevant precedents, etc.) to illustrate a range of relevant solutions, based on the research, that meet client objectives
• Guide the development of project narratives told through presentations, reports, websites, etc.
• Provide day-to-day direction to team members, and maintain the strategic direction and expectations set for the project by the Project / Strategy Director
• Work closely with the Project / Strategy Managers to ensure project success (Strategy Managers manage day-to-day operations for projects including staffing, fee tracking and forecasting, and orchestration of client meetings)
• Mentor future Strategy Leads, along with others in the Studio

With Clients you'll :

As a business developer and thought leader you'll :

Your Qualifications

Who You Are You're passionate about the built environment and its impact on individuals and organizations. You :

Your background and experience :

The base salary range will be estimated between $95,000 - $125,000 plus bonuses and benefits and contingent on relevant experience. To be considered, please include 2-3 project examples and a cover letter as part of your submission.

About Strategy at Gensler

Gensler's Strategy Practice is focused on exploring and defining how space, technology, services, and policy can create great experiences and support an organizations' best work. We use in-depth user research and data to explore and develop strategies that enable our clients to meet their business and organizational objectives. With our design teams here in New York and around the world, we conceptualize and implement creative solutions that support our client's needs. In parallel, we help our clients manage change to ensure new ideas take root, and to build capability that sustains.

Life at Gensler

At Gensler, we are as committed to enjoying life as we are to delivering best-in-class design. From curated art exhibits to internal design competitions to "Well-being Week," our offices reflect our people's diverse interests.

We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401k, profit sharing, employee stock ownership, and twice annual bonus opportunities.

As part of the firm's commitment to licensure and professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional licenses and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programs or classes. We view our professional development programs as strategic investments in our future.