Space Planner

Job Introduction

Sodexo UK & Ireland have a new opportunity for a Space Planner to join the team based at our client site, a multinational leading employer in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork.

You’ll be managing the floor space across two large sites, ensuring our new starters and existing teams have allocated space whilst managing the requirements of our client and maximising use of the buildings. You’ll provide solutions to address space challenges in line with budgetary restraints and overall plans. This role has the potential to develop to be involved in larger projects and provide overall helpdesk management.

Role Responsibility

• Coordinates and performs space planning for two sites
• Coordinate the development of space plans to accommodate staffing and other business requirements. Present and negotiate with business units to implement plans aligned with corporate guidelines, including scenarios to maximize use of space while meeting business requirements
• Support in the management of existing occupancy and develop occupancy analysis reporting to effectively communicate occupancy/vacancy ratios, headcount projections and workplace conditions.
• To develop, administer and manage any moves whilst ensuring that services requests are responded to in a timely manner.
• Manages relocations including the development and execution of project planning activities, timing of group moves/relocations, migration and phasing plans, stack and block plans, test-fits and final relocations. Responsible for coordinating and successfully delivering projects with minimum negative impact to employees or business operations.
• Coordinates with clients and planning team to identify equipment requirements and support area furniture needs.
• Participates in the development & integration of space management tools & processes to improve operational efficiencies.

The Ideal Candidate

A great opportunity for someone with a strong administration background looking to develop within a new role with the drive to take ownership and work across all levels of our organisation to ensure plans are delivered.

Essential skills and experience

• A good eye for detail and able to read and interpret building maps and plans
• Advanced computer skills including Word, Outlook, Excel
• Independent, organized, creative, and possess strong analytical skills to perform trending analysis.
• Able to demonstrate excellent customer service skills with a proven ability to work collaboratively and influence a wide range of stakeholders to ensure projects are delivered.
• Excellent Relationship management skills with the ability to set, manage and deliver customer expectations and effectively communicate to a wide range of audiences.

About the Company

In the UK and Ireland, Sodexo employs around 30,000 people, and partners with clients in many sectors across business and industry; schools and universities; sports and leisure; energy and resources; government and agencies; healthcare; justice and defence.

Sodexo’s connected; people-centric approach brings together a diverse range of expertise. The breadth of services it offers ranges from food and hospitality; cleaning; reception; concierge (Circles); security; property management and technical services through to data driven workplace strategy and design (Wx); employee engagement and recognition services (Sodexo Engage) and personal home services through Prestige Nursing + Care and the Good Care Group.

Vital Spaces is Sodexo’s value proposition that puts people at the heart of everything we do, bringing together services and solutions and focusing on the productivity and wellbeing of people wherever they are.

Sodexo is committed to being an inclusive employer; we welcome and encourage applications from people with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds and identities.

We’re a Disability Confident Leader employer. We’re committed to changing attitudes towards disability, and making sure disabled people have the chance to fulfil their aspirations.

We are building on our support to the Armed Forces community through the development of specific pathways within our recruitment process to  support ex-forces personnel and reservists, those applying for jobs with us who meet the ideal candidate criteria for the role advertised are guaranteed to progress to the selection process