Bilingual Workplace Strategist, Integration (FR/ENG)

BGIS•Toronto, ON

6d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Workplace Strategist, Integration consults with clients and organizations to ensure coordination of communications, connections, direction, and outcome. The workplace strategist is the connector who is poised to identify key opportunities and correlations, and acts to ensure the necessary links and adjustments are made. The Workplace Strategist Integration ensures that all participants have the information, connections, and framework needed to execute their part of the project, while advocating for occupant satisfaction as the project outcome. Working closely with the client organizations, the Workplace Strategist develops and delivers solutions that aim to integrate all work streams in the delivery of workplace fit-up and workplace transformation. Solutions can be inclusive of early consultation & engagement, and the development and roll-out of interior design, furniture procurement, relocation, sustainable decommissioning, and change management programs. The Workplace Strategist should have experience working in the areas of workplace transformation and real estate modernization.

Requirements

University or College Degree (Bachelors level or greater).
Three (3) to Five (5) years’ experience in corporate workplace experience, and or project delivery services including but not limited to interior design, project management, corporate real estate.
Education and certification in one or more of the following areas: Interior Design, Change Management, Project Management, Facilities Management or related fields.
Ability to manage medium to large projects.
Proficient in MS Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint,), Adobe Acrobat, MS Project
Experience working with and communicating to senior project audiences.
Excellent meeting leadership skills.
Experience working in workplace transformation.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Strong organizational and time management skills.
Strong analytical skills.
Service driven.
English is required because you will be dealing with English-speaking customers as part of your job.

Responsibilities

Demonstrates strong, competent leadership for team members to guide them in reaching their full potential and meeting their objectives, which supports achievement of our corporate goals.
Full involvement with recruiting talent.
Provides mentoring, coaching, and guidance to team members.
Objectively recommends compensation adjustments.
Manages all aspects of performance.
Acts as the primary contact and project lead for medium to large mandates and provides direction and reviews work of other team members as required to ensure timely, successful implementation of projects & initiatives.
Act as workstream integrator for medium to large projects.
Collaborates with client account teams and project managers to deliver project excellence.
Builds partnerships with internal and external concerned parties to enable the project from inception to completion.
Identifies concerned parties and assembles the core project team.
Maintains project schedule and budget to ensure it is in line with the approved mandate.
Leads project meetings to define key goals and objectives.
Leads milestone meetings with internal / external team members and project concerned parties.
Ensures intake of project information is robust and validated and disseminates accordingly.
Tracks and evaluates decisions for impacts to other work streams or desired outcomes.
Identifies connections, opportunities, interdependencies and acts to create a communication network to support.
Acts as main point of contact for the tenant, PSPC, the project groups and other participants.
Coordinates all communications and activities across all major contributing concerned parties, departments, and working groups.
Coordinates and distributes reports from the Project Team and Workplace Solutions.
Sets the pace and trajectory of the project and inter-team communications.
Confirms design intent throughout the life of the project and communicates the vision for the project as an advocate for the occupant.
Resolves conflict and solves problems in a practical and healthy manner.
Cultivates and manages healthy relationships with strategic partners and vendors.
Consistently demonstrates a passion that values alignment, focus, simplicity, and clarity across the organization.
Provides reporting to the client on a regular basis for each project as defined by the delivery plan.
Provides information as required to support internal & account reporting requirements.
Ability to maintain and build client relationships and support the management of key client accounts (where appropriate) with a pipeline of work overtime.
Assists with business development opportunities such as scope definition, fee and proposal development.