Gensler
Strategy Director
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Your Role
You are a senior leader who possesses outstanding skills in winning work, managing client relationships, leading projects as well as persuasive communication skills. You will be responsible for winning work and leading consulting projects across a broad range of services, including workplace strategy, real estate portfolio strategy and change management.
What You Will Do
As a Strategy Director, you are a creative thinker who enjoys mapping our project processes to solve client problems, as well as developing relationships. You are an enthusiastic leader who is excited to help us develop and strengthen our client relationships. You are comfortable in a fast-paced, dynamic, open, collaborative environment and the ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously is a must. You are a self-starter, quick learner and have an entrepreneurial spirit.
Your Primary Responsibilities Include
- Presence in the local market, active and engaged in business development opportunities
- Develop client relationships to earn status as a trusted adviser
- Lead proposal development, including scope definition, process mapping, and compensation requirements
- Build relationships with our colleagues across the globe to advance client interests, Gensler interests, and practice area objectives.
- Lead teams as they collect quantitative data and qualitative feedback from user research
- Develop creative design concepts that illustrate options of how client organisations can be supported through performance enhancing workplace strategies
- Manage synthesis of information and the impact on space supply and occupancy demand data, business goals, and organizational culture
- Oversee development of powerful communication tools that help clients to visualize and understand the tradeoffs associated with various design concept and planning scenarios
- Interface with Gensler design studios to ensure the seamless transition of design strategy into the design implementation phase
- Direct and guide Project Managers who, in turn, manage day-to-day operations for projects including staffing, fee tracking and forecasting, and client meetings
- Maintain ultimate responsibility for the quality of deliverables, strategies, and other work products
- Mentor, support, and direct staff to help them achieve not only client goals but personal development goals
- Manage relationships with client’s other third party service providers including real estate brokers, consultants, project managers, etc.
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Your Qualifications
- Bachelor Degree in a relevant field and significant relevant professional experience. Design background with design strategy experience strongly preferred. Additional, relevant educational background (e.g., social science, business) is a plus.
- Minimum of 10 years + within the Architecture & Design Industry.
- Strong record of winning work
- Excellent client relationship and account management experience
- Project directing, project management and team leadership experience
- Demonstrable ability to execute projects profitably
- Visibility in the field, including industry memberships, publications, and conference speaking experience
- Outstanding analytical, communication, and interpersonal skills and be an enthusiastic team player
- Strong writing skills
- High degree of flexibility, ability to work on multiple projects at once
- A level of familiarity with programs such as AutoCAD, Revit, Excel, and Adobe Creative Suite (InDesign, specifically) to lead team members who use these programs daily
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Life at Gensler
We encourage every person at Gensler to lead a healthy and balanced life. Our comprehensive benefits include medical and dental insurance, season ticket loans, pension, and twice annual bonus opportunities.
As part of the firm’s commitment to professional development, Gensler offers reimbursement for certain professional qualifications and associated renewals and exam fees. In addition, we reimburse tuition for certain eligible programmes or classes. We view our professional development programmes as strategic investments in our future.
NOTICE TO APPLICANTS
We are proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer of choice. All aspects of employment decisions will be based on merit, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate on the basis of any status protected under applicable regulatory laws.
Individuals with disabilities and protected veterans are encouraged to apply. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with applicable regulatory laws.
Gensler endeavors to make gensler.com/careers accessible to all applicants. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us.
Regarding Gensler’s approach to recruiting new talent, we will never ask an applicant for sensitive or personal financial information during the recruitment process. We advise all applicants seeking employment with Gensler to review available information on recruitment fraud. Anyone who suspects that they have been contacted by someone falsely representing Gensler should email talentacquisition@gensler.com.
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