Overview 

Join our team and you’ll be joining a company that has placed its people at the heart of the business since 1986. 

For over 30 years, our culture has supported and encouraged everyone to achieve the best they can be. We provide career paths that offer the potential for rapid progression, varied opportunities, and the ability to be entrepreneurial, all set within an understanding, stimulating and rewarding environment that offers unique insights into a multitude of business challenges. 

At MovePlan, you’ll work within an ambitious, yet supportive workplace; one that provides you with the right ingredients to progress, grow as a person and feel fulfilled within your role. Furthermore, as a female owned and led business, diversity, equity and inclusion are baked in our DNA. As a result, we reward people based on their performance, not their personal characteristics, and we welcome all backgrounds to apply. 

Our business relies on its people to create success for all - so we make sure we look after you: our benefits include a generous health insurance policy and competitive paid time off allowance, as well as the provision of a range of other benefits to support everyone. Furthermore, your career at MovePlan will be underpinned by a fully flexible approach to working - since the business started, and long before hybrid working became the norm, our people have been working flexibly.

A career at MovePlan will provide you with the right management, teams, and mentors to support your growth, all underpinned by excellent career pathways, the right training and an ethos which places people at the heart of everything we do. Rest assured you’ll be provided with the right environment to grow and thrive. 

Company benefits

• We provide extensive employee benefits including paid time off, time off in lieu, healthcare and competitive salaries
• We will give you a 1 month sabbatical after you have worked with us for 5 years, and every 5 years after that
• It’s your birthday? Take the day off!
• We believe in the power of giving back: we provide time off to volunteer for a charity of your choice
• Love working with us and want a friend or someone you know to join too? We offer a structured employee referral scheme
• [Add in any regional specific benefits (medical/pension etc)]
• 401k

Job Description Summary 

(A detailed Job Description will be provided during the recruitment process)

The Workplace Project Manager is responsible for delivering successful change and relocation projects for MovePlan’s fast growing list of clients that span financial services, media and technology, pharma & healthcare, education, and public services. You will work for startups through to high growth businesses and multinationals, often across multiple borders. 

Your role will include, but not be limited to:

• Coordinating, managing and delivering workplace transition projects for MovePlan’s clients
• Communicating to all stakeholders, including employees, on all aspects of the project to ensure it is clearly conveyed, seamlessly implemented and successfully adopted
• Monitoring resource levels and expenses on each project against budget
• Supporting, maintaining and demonstrating the MovePlan culture at all times, acting as an ambassador of the Company and understanding the role of consultant within the client workplace
• Attending business development activities as necessary including, but not limited to, bid presentations, networking meetings and industry events 

General 

• The Workplace Project Manager will be predominantly based on the client’s premises - which could be in a variety of locations - and is a MovePlan ambassador on-site 
• You must be flexible, self-motivated and able to work with new teams and establish strong client relationships 
• You must be able to work occasional nights and weekends when moves are in progress 

Skills - Essential.

You should:

• Have excellent communication and client relations skills
• Be highly organised
• Deliver high quality written communications
• Have a keen attention to detail
• Demonstrate adaptability and flexibility in your working attitude
• Have a passion for working within and among teams, and be able to do this effectively 
• Have good knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite applications
• Have a willingness to travel, and want to engage with multiple clients in various sectors

Skills - Desirable. 

It would be favourable for you to:

• Have an aptitude for creative and innovative thinking/be solutions-oriented
• Have workplace strategy and/or organisational change management experience 
• Demonstrate project management skills, including effective organisation and time management
• Have leadership experience and the drive to take the initiative
• Have experience in leading culture change
• Have Change or Project management certification
• Have space planning, occupancy, or design background

Why work with us?

We have over 30 years’ experience working with some of the most well-known companies across the globe. From Microsoft and Bloomberg, to HSBC, AstraZeneca and Expedia, these companies come to us to master and deliver workplace change - whether that entails a relocation, or requires space optimisation - or change and culture management. Our people’s expertise and local understanding means that as a wider organisation we’re able to provide a unique line of sight that our competitors cannot: from working processes and employee behaviours, to the environments integral to defining the next chapter of the workplace. 

Everyone at MovePlan feeds into the success of our projects, and our clients’ success in delivering the right workplace for their employees. By joining MovePlan, you’ll benefit from working within a fast-moving, ever-changing, yet supportive environment, while taking on increasing responsibility through a variety of opportunities as you progress and grow.

A word about Diversity & Inclusivity

We are a boutique company, with a big outlook - and this is reflected in the many cultures across the globe who work for and with us.

We are defined by our people and this means we encourage everyone to be proud of who they are. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive place to work where we can all be ourselves.

This isn’t new to us either: we’ve championed differences, striven for inclusion and celebrated the diversity of our people for over 30 years - and we will continue to maintain a welcoming workplace, for everybody, every day.

Would you like to learn about life here at MovePlan from some of our team? Read their stories to get a first-hand account of what it’s like to work for us: People at MovePlan - MovePlan (moveplangroup.com)

Posted until May 2, 2024