Head of Workplace & Property

About the role:

We have an exciting opportunity for a Head of Workplace & Property to join our Operations this senior leadership role you will shape and deliver our international workplace property and facilities management strategy (excluding Canada) ensuring our offices support the firms people culture and growth.

You will lead a Workplace & Facilities Management team creating safe efficient and inspiring environments across our portfolio. With ownership of offices across the UK Europe and the Middle East youll oversee everything from space planning and workplace design through to acquisitions and disposals. You will also play a critical role in ensuring the firm is incidentready across all locations with clear embedded plans that align with best practice and evolving workplace thinking.

As an experienced workplace leader youll be comfortable managing teams and complex projects often to tight timescales while balancing strategic oversight with handson delivery.

Broadly the role covers:

• Real estate portfolio strategy
• Delivery of major workplace and property projects
• Lease negotiations and property transactions
• Facilities management and operational oversight

About you:

We are looking for a senior workplace and property leader with strong experience managing corporate occupier portfolios ideally within a professional services or complex corporate environment. Youll bring a clear strategic mindset combined with handson experience across lease negotiations landlord relationships space strategy and longterm portfolio planning.

Youll have a proven track record of delivering major workplace projects including largescale refurbishments or transformations with a strong understanding of future ways of working. Experience managing consultants capital budgets and facilities operations will be key alongside the ability to balance landlord and tenant responsibilities.

Operating at Head of (or equivalent) level youll be a confident people leader able to influence senior stakeholders and build trusted relationships across the business. Youll be commercially astute deliveryfocused and comfortable operating at pace bringing clarity and direction in complex or challenging situations.

An understanding of the legal sector would be beneficial as would international experience though neither is essential. Professional qualifications such as MRICS or facilities management accreditation are desirable but not required.

What We Can Offer You:

The opportunity to work for a firm that has been recognised as one of best places to work in the UK and has been ranked by Great Place to Work for 26 consecutive years.

Excellent benefits including:

• A hybrid approach to office and remote working.
• 25 days annual leave with the option to buy up to a weeks extra annual leave
• Private medical insurance and the option to add family members
• A generous pension allowance
• Life assurance covering four times your annual salary
• The chance of a three-month sabbatical every five years
• Maternity paternity and adoption leave schemes
• A range of health and wellbeing programmes
• State of the art offices with an onsite restaurant
• Opportunities to flourish in your role through training and personal development

Equal Opportunities:

Gowling WLG is committed both to promoting equality and diversity in the firmand to Equal Opportunities in employment. The firm believes in equality of opportunity regardless of race or racial group (including colour nationality ethnicity national origins) religion or belief age disability sexual orientation sex gender re-assignment and gender identity marriage and civil partnership and pregnancy maternity and paternity. This also includes any incidents of perceptive or associative discrimination and harassment.

At Gowling WLGwe seek to attract and retain talented people from a diverse range of backgrounds and cultures to create an exciting and rewarding place to work. Our aim is to fulfil everyones potential and together to achieve personal and business goals.

If you have any queries in relation to this position or would like to see a full job description please contact Meg Astley at

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