Senior Staff Workplace Strategist

About the role

This position is responsible for creating, implementing, and sustaining workplace strategies, including design standards, and guidelines for Entergy’s Real Estate portfolio. Additionally, this position will act as the Corporate Real Estate customer relationship representative for the corporate headquarters buildings and will lead a team of contractors to deliver facility management and capital project management services to several business units within the headquarter portfolio. This position will lead a team of contractors to provide solutions that produce meaningful change and promote innovation, collaboration, and well-being within the work environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive the development of strategic and tactical workplace design standards, training, review and approval of project development plans, and demand planning that aligns with Corporate Real Estate’s overall business strategy to bring the vision into realization through design strategies.
• Workplace concepts programming of spaces, building constructions systems, finishes and furniture planning.
• Develop a long-range strategic regional real estate plan including scenario planning, financial evaluations, and opportunities to improve space, cost, and utilization.
• Participate in business unit planning and help translate business unit strategy into real estate strategy.
• Develop business case justifications for the strategic plan and present to business unit management for approval.
• Implement the approved strategic plan and make budget/funding decisions.
• P&L responsibility for a capital budget of approx. $25M and O&M budget of approx. $2.4M.
• Manage and direct the facilities management contractor staff as needed to ensure successful service delivery.
• Coordinate the corporate portfolio annual capital project plan (strategic, quality, reliability & business unit-funded projects) and manage project implementation through project management contractor.
• Monitor monthly business unit scorecard goals and measures to evaluate trends and adjust accordingly.
• Manage and direct the facilities management contractor staff as needed to ensure successful service delivery.
• Track goals and measures to verify successful service delivery.

Requirements

• Minimum education and experience required of the position: Sr Staff : Bachelor's Degree in a technical or business-related field and at least 10 years of experience in project management, corporate real estate or related field OR in lieu of degree, 14+ years of experience in project management, corporate real estate or related field.
• Desired: Master's Degree or BS in engineering, construction management, real estate, architecture, or similar technical degree preferred.
• Minimum knowledge, skills and abilities required of the position: Analytical skill set with advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint. Advanced verbal and written communication skills are required for this position. General knowledge of safety programs, including contractor safety, is required. General knowledge of building systems, such as HVAC, plumbing, electrical, etc. is desirable. General knowledge of engineering, architectural, and construction principles.