Workspace Design Manager (Fixed Term 13 Months) at SEEK

The Role This is a fixed‑term role to backfill a parental leave position. We are seeking an experienced workspace strategist and designer with a strong design and design‑strategy background who will lead the design / fit‑out stream of SEEK workspace projects, with a particular focus on a significant, large‑scale project currently in site selection. You will ensure our aspirations are translated into quality, highly functional and great‑value design outcomes that are truly “us”. You will: • Use the SEEK Workspace Playbook as the core framework for all projects, ensuring new workspaces align to our standards and intent, and refine the strategy as needed for each site, market and way of working. Work closely with the Workspace Project Director to coordinate internal delivery streams (e.g. Technology, OX), guiding them to define the right requirements and feed information and decisions into the design at the right time, while jointly managing timeline, budget, supply chain and risk. • Lead briefing activities aligned to our purpose so that specific requirements are captured and considered, and the external team is clear on our aspirations, constraints and measures of success. • Work alongside the Workspace Project Director to lead the design of SEEK workspaces, while supporting our Office Experience (OX) and Technology teams to ensure milestones, dependencies and operational requirements are identified and met. • Be a key connector between SEEK and external design / project teams, ensuring design solutions are right for SEEK and not just “off‑the‑shelf” proposals. You will actively challenge and guide external designers and consultants to achieve the best outcome for SEEK and our people. • Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders across the business, maintaining regular contact to understand how our spaces are working, how teams are evolving, and what’s changing in headcount and ways of working. • Workspace Planning, gather and interpret data (e.g. headcount, utilisation, ways‑of‑working insights, survey and research data) to inform workspace strategies, test design assumptions and measure outcomes. • Be a key contributor to the Workspace Project Director to ensure projects remain aligned to the agreed purpose and parameters of cost, time and scope, and that risks and opportunities are clearly identified, communicated and managed (including recommending well‑reasoned deviations where these better achieve the project purpose). • Manage the production of project documentation (e.g. presentations, status reports, risk registers, minutes/agendas, design packs) and/or ensure delivery of agreed external consultant reporting. • Monitor external consultants and contractors to ensure work and deliverables (including design stages) are produced to the required quality and submitted/completed on time. • Plan, facilitate and document meetings and workshops (e.g. stakeholder briefings, co‑design sessions, design reviews, lessons learned), ensuring the right people, inputs and artefacts are in the room.The Team This role sits within Finance and Business Support (FABS) in the Workspaces team and reports to the Head of Workspace Strategy & Travel. You will work closely with internal delivery teams including Office Experience (OX) and Technology, and with external consultant teams including Project Managers, Architects / Interior Designers, Property Consultants, Engineers and Cost Consultants.