# Head of Workplace Nordics

**Company**: WSP
**Location**: Stockholm
**Experience**: executive
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Facilities & Maintenance
**Industry**: Consulting

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## Description

The Head of Workplace Nordics role involves strategic development and operational management of WSP's real estate portfolio across the Nordic region, including Sweden, Finland, and Norway.

Key responsibilities include:

- Ensuring safety performance and adherence to WSP H&S policies and regional legislation

- Developing and implementing regional real estate strategies aligned with global workplace objectives

- Serving as the senior point of contact for all real estate activities in the Nordics

- Monitoring future lease events and leading real estate transactions and negotiations

- Collaborating with regional business unit leaders on future workspace requirements

- Facilitating close collaboration between CRE, Project, and FM workstreams

- Undertaking feasibility studies and cost-benefit analyses

- Developing detailed business cases and investment proposals

- Implementing systems to monitor occupancy and utilisation levels

- Co-ordinating and undertaking workplace surveys

- Contributing to the development of WSP's workplace strategy

- Maintaining knowledge of trends and best practices in corporate real estate

- Identifying, evaluating, and implementing workplace-related initiatives supporting WSP's ESG strategic aspirations

- Developing and implementing management policies and processes

- Preparing annual and interim opex and capex financial forecasts

- Monitoring the financial performance of the estate

- Developing and implementing a rolling 5-year capital investment programme

- Undertaking benchmarking exercises

- Ensuring the CRE function is prepared to respond to crisis incidents

The ideal candidate will have:

- Highly customer-centric approach with excellent communications skills

- Minimum 5 years of experience leading workplace strategy and delivery of real estate services across a European commercial office portfolio > 1m sq.ft.

- Experience of leading commercial property transactions within a large private organisation

- Preferably multi-lingual (English + additional European language)

- Detailed knowledge of the real estate/FM industry including best practices across Europe

- Analytical and financial skills necessary to develop and comprehend strategic plans and budgets

- Ability to manage through ambiguity and build a strong internal network

- Results-oriented with a desire to learn and support new technologies and processes

- Effective organisational skills with ability to delegate, prioritise, and manage multiple projects under pressure

- Proficient with MS Word, MS Excel, MS Power Point

- Strong communication skills, both written and oral

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## Skills

### Required
- real estate strategy
- CRE operations
- safety performance
- commercial property transactions
- financial planning
- project management
- MS Office

### Nice to have
- multi-lingual
- IWFM
- MCIBSE
- RICS

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