Senior Premises Workplace Designer

Job Type:  12 month Fixed Term Contract

Location: This role could be based in either our Edinburgh, London or Wythall offices with time spent working in the office and at home.

Flexible working: All of our roles are open to part-time, job-share and other types of flexibility. We will discuss what is important to you and balancing this with business requirements during the recruitment process.

Closing Date: 1st steptember 2024

Salary and benefits: £50,000 to £60,000 plus 16% bonus up to 32%, private medical cover, 38 days annual leave, excellent pension, 12x salary life assurance, career breaks, income protection, 3x volunteering days and much more

We have an incredible opportunity to join us here at Phoenix Group as a Senior Workplace Designer to join our Premises and Resilience / Workplace team.

Who are we?

We want to be the best place that any of our 6,600 colleagues have ever worked.

We’re the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business. We offer a range of products across our market-leading brands, Standard Life, SunLife, Phoenix Life and ReAssure. Around 1 in 5 people in the UK has a pension with us. We’re a FTSE 100 organisation that is tackling key issues such as transitioning our portfolio to net zero by 2050, and we’re not done yet.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity where you can take part in shaping our future workplace design and strategy throughout the Phoenix property portfolio to create the best place everyone has ever worked.

As part of the Premises Workplace Team you will shape the physical office design throughout the Phoenix property portfolio based on hybrid working principles, produce presentations, briefing documents and concept design packs for internal stakeholders and steering groups for review, discussion and feedback. Lead consultation workshops with colleagues, leaders and key stakeholders. This is a great opportunity to bring together and influence stakeholders and effectively manage to achieve the desired outcome which aligns with the property strategy while supporting the overarching business strategy.

You will be responsible for collating briefing information and leading consultants from concept design to site delivery by anticipating business requirements, leading refurbishment projects, furniture installations, restacks in line with business requirements and balance functions requests while delivering continuous improvements and upgrades.

What are we looking for?

We are looking for a self-sufficient, proactive individual with commercial office design and workplace consultancy experience, ideally on the client side.

The successful candidate has the aspiration to push the boundaries in creative office interior design in line with the latest workplace trends, able to influence stakeholders to shape briefs, compile feasibility documents, analyse complex utilisation data to create supporting documnets and align the approach with the business strategy while delivering the agreed property strategy.

• Demonstrate knowledge of UK Building Regulations and best practice in workplace design (BCO)
• Proficient with AutoCAD Architecture and MS Office Suite (PowerPoint, Excel, Word).
• Ability to gather, create, analyse and interpret complex documents

 We want to hire the whole version of you.

We are committed to ensuring that everyone feels accepted and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. If your experience looks different from what we’ve advertised and you believe that you can bring value to the role, we’d love to hear from you.

 If you require any adjustments to the recruitment process, please let us know so we can help you to be at your best.

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