# Workplace Project Manager

**Company**: Mistral AI
**Location**: Paris
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Operations
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q119718658

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## Description

As our Workplace Project Manager based in Paris, you will oversee the planning, implementation, and delivery of workplace operations projects, ensuring efficient facilities management, optimal space utilization, and high-quality service delivery across all sites.

You will report directly to the Workplace Lead EMEA, and be part of the HR Team.

Key Responsibilities:

Project Leadership & Delivery

- Own end-to-end delivery of complex, multi-site workplace projects, ensuring alignment with business strategy and Mistral AI's values: opening a new office, setting up and following the Workplace yearly budget, negotiating leases, negotiating contracts with providers, launching call for tenders or control for providers...

- Establish and enforce project governance standards, methodologies, and best practices.

- Lead post-project reviews to capture insights and drive organizational improvements.

- Advise on emerging regulations and drive a culture of health, safety, and rigor across project teams.

Workplace Strategy & Innovation

- Drive workplace strategy across global sites, integrating occupancy insights, business unit feedback, and emerging industry trends.

- Develop mid- to long-term capacity plans and champion audacious, innovative space solutions.

- Lead the adoption and optimization of digital workplace tools, advanced automations, and align technology with organizational goals.

Vendor & Financial Management

- Manage a portfolio of strategic vendor and contractor relationships, developing preferred supplier frameworks.

- Negotiate multi-project agreements and mentor team members on procurement best practices.

- Lead budget management for complex portfolios, design financial reporting frameworks, and identify strategic cost efficiencies.

- Advise leadership on cost trade-offs and mentor junior team members on financial governance.

Experience and Skills

- Proven track record: 8 to 10 years in workplace project management, facilities management, or corporate real estate, with experience delivering complex, multi-site initiatives.

- Strategic thinking: Ability to align project delivery with business objectives and long-term workplace strategy.

- Financial & vendor expertise: Strong budget and cost management skills, including financial reporting, cost trade-off analysis, and strategic vendor negotiations.

- Risk & compliance mindset: Deep understanding of risk frameworks, contingency planning, and compliance (including ESG, health & safety, and workplace regulations).

- Digital fluency: Experience with workplace management tools, automation, and data-driven decision-making.

Benefits

- Daily lunch vouchers

- Monthly contribution to Wellpass subscription

- Monthly contribution to a mobility pass

- Full health for you and your family

- Generous parental leave policy

## Skills

### Required
- workplace project management
- facilities management
- corporate real estate
- strategic thinking
- financial management
- vendor management
- risk management
- compliance
- digital fluency

### Nice to have
- workplace analytics
- IWMS platforms
- space planning software
- workplace design
- architecture
- facilities engineering
- international workplace standards
- sustainability certifications

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