Senior Director, Workplace Strategy

What You Need To Know

Open your future to incredible career potential. Work for an industry-leader who invests in their people. Southern Glazer’s Wine & Spirits is North America’s preeminent wine and spirits distributor, as well as a family-owned, privately held company with roots that go back to 1933. We were named by Newsweek as a Most Loved Workplace and included on the Forbes lists for Largest Private Companies and Best Employers for Diversity.

 

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At Southern Glazer’s, you’ll enjoy an environment where continuous learning and growth are supported and experience a culture where you are respected, and your voice is heard. If you’re looking to fill your glass with opportunity, come join our FAMILY.

Overview

The Senior Director Workplace Strategy will lead the delivery of Southern Glazer’s real estate program. The focus of the position is to engage, collaborate, and partner with our real estate partners with the overall strategy regarding the real estate portfolio. The Sr Director of Real estate will develop processes that align the wok environment and practices with organizational business goals and objectives at local, regional, and corporate levels. Real estate and workplace solutions may include development of portfolio consolidation strategies, workplace standards or programs, and project execution across the Southern Glazer’s portfolio. The Sr Director will have strong experience in strategic planning, real estate portfolio analysis, occupancy planning, design, functional program, construction management and workplace standards development incorporating both traditional and alternative workplace strategies. This position will report directly to the Vice President of National Operations.

Primary Responsibilities

• Real estate strategic planning support: Manage the real estate portfolio related to office space.
• Analyze, anticipate, plan real estate changes, and work with internal stakeholders to identify optimal recommendations/decisions.
• Report periodically with business units on portfolio performance, pipeline, transaction, and project activities, and collect insights on future activities/needs.
• Proactively review the portfolio on a regular basis and identify opportunities linked to market conditions, options, etc.
• Develop and maintain project schedule and budget to ensure it is in line with the approved mandate.
• Real estate & facilities data management support: Identify and validate existing organizational requirements and workplace needs including utilization, growth forecasting, specialized requirements, head and seat counts, and employee requirements.
• Measure and analyze workplace effectiveness through discussions, site observations, workplace surveys, space utilization and benchmarking studies.
• Identify workstyles, workplace barriers to productivity, and overall attitude towards change.
• Identify opportunities to reduce occupancy costs and operating costs through alternative workplace strategies and portfolio consolidation strategies.

Additional Primary Responsibilities

• Change management support: Create compelling business case for change within the workplace. Develop preliminary workplace redesign concepts and program requirements based on strategic portfolio and workplace analytics. Provide recommendations specific to FF&E, technologies, and other infrastructure related to workplace transformation. Lead the implementation of alternative workplace.
• Strategies in alignment with the business goals and objectives
• Workplace research support: Develop and execute workplace research plans and deliverables, using practice expertise and best practice case studies.
• Research industry workplace benchmark data to gauge competitiveness of Southern Glazer’s workplace metrics (i.e., cost, size, efficiency, productivity)
• Stay current with emerging trends and insights related to future of work, workplace strategy and design, and best practices.
• Communication and presentation support: Design and develop PowerPoint decks and associated talking points to effectively communicate findings related to the workplace strategy projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• <span _msthash="301" _msttexthash="2295228" style="font-size:12.0pt">Bachelor’s Degree is required.
• <span _msthash="301" _msttexthash="2295228" style="font-size:12.0pt">Master’s is preferred but not req