Workspace Lead

Company Description
**H&M is on a journey to becoming the leading destination for style, creativity and culture. We want to enable, empower and engage teams while building on our passion for being the truly customer-centric company we are. On this journey we want to encourage our teams to learn and grow meaningfully, unleashing their full potential - fulfilling our Employee Value Proposition, we are a place of possibilities and where you can Be Yourself & More**

**Job Description**:
**You will be responsible for Workspace strategy and management for Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam and Philippines offices. This position sits within the People & Teams function and together we will drive and optimize the workplace culture playing a part to employee engagement. We want to enable leaders to understand the needs of their teams while empowering them to response effectively. Our desired state is for the office to become future ready (uncertain times), allowing great team engagement, encouraging meaningful collaborations and where everyone belongs and can be themselves.**

**_ Key responsibilities:_**:

- Office Management_
- Develop strategy, framework and tools that will empower managers to take ownership of employee engagement initiatives.
- Transform the office into Future Workspace ready, proactively engaging with global and local stakeholders in work environment improvement initiatives.
- Ensure optimal standards are maintained across the office spaces as well as supplies and tech inventory.
- Proactively liaise with all functions in order to support and facilitate employee engagement events.
- Plan the budget for office expenses and investments and collaborate with the Centre Controller.
- Ensures health & safety, sustainability, employee relations and legal requirements are fulfilled and coordinated with respective function responsible.
- Ensure all office invoices are processed in a timely manner.
- Manage and negotiate with vendors to ensure we have the best price for service provision and supplies.
- Employee Engagement_
- Design and ensure, at a strategic level, creative Fika / employee engagement programs with clear connection to our organization’s purpose and business outcome.
- Drive and upskill managers, as well as functions involved, on our new colleague onboarding framework, ensuring a great colleague experience right from day 1.

**Qualifications**:
**Being part of this journey means there is not one clear path. We ask of you to be open to change and take part in creating an organization for the future. This is an opportunity for open minded team players that by being curious, innovative and forward-thinking want to change our business and the whole industry. We ask you to be yourself, drive results, work towards goals and go for it with everything you’ve got.**
- Besides your personality we see that you have:_
- Have at least 3-5 years of experience managing a dynamic, vibrant and growing workspace for 150-250 colleague.
- Experience in strategy and proposal writing, program designs and proficient in effective corporate communications.
- Comfortable and confident to be the ‘face’ of our workspaces as well as genuinely passionate in engaging colleagues and building excellent relations with employees.
- Service oriented mindset and behavior as well as experienced in stakeholder management.
- Resilient and versatile, not afraid to handle push back with managers and stakeholder when needed.
- Self-driven and motivated, able to tackle challenges and make decisions with mínimal guidance.
- Well balance between strategic way of working and day to day operational matters with a proactive approach, as well as actively seeking collaboration cross functionally.

Additional Information

This position is based Singapore Office and will report to Regional HR Manager.