Head of Workplace Strategy
Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane | Full Time | Moderate National Travel Required for In-Person Consulting
Do you have experience delivering Workplace Strategy consulting engagements to organisations in the context of a possible office redesign, property decision, or future of workplace reboot?
Are you ready to ‘take the creative reins’ of a human-centred design methodology that has been used extensively for a decade to guide multi-million dollar projects, but which now needs to evolve and grow a new team around it with a fresh leader?
If so, we might be a great fit for each other.
About Amicus
Amicus is an award-winning employer with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane and a national project reach. Established in 2005, we began with a focus on design and fit out for the Office, Laboratory, Education and Hospitality sectors. Today, our offering spans workplace design and construction, alongside expertise in strategy, change management, technology and finance.
About the Role
We are currently exploring a pathway for a generational handover as our current Head of Workplace Strategy looks to head toward retirement.
We are seeking a new leader who will have an incredible opportunity to take the best parts of consulting capability developed over the last 10 years, and blend this with their own unique stamp and vision for the future of work and workplace.
The opportunity comes with a chance to recruit and grow a fresh team over the coming years as our business continues to grow.
What you’ll be doing
In this role, you’ll:
- scope, pitch and deliver workplace strategy consulting engagements to client-side senior leaders or project leads in the context of a potential office redesign/refurb, move, or property decision/roadmap.
- undertake stakeholder engagement, general discovery, data capture & interpretation, provoke future-focussed visioning, and create a strategic brief for a future workplace steeped in insight and rich in clear guidance for making the vision come true.
- play the role of a sort of urban anthropologist, philosopher, or ethnographer – getting wildly curious about the intersections between environment, emotion, experience and culture, and using this wisdom to shift leadership conversations from space, to people and their potential.
- remain embedded in Amicus projects (from 500sqm to 10,000sqm+) as a key voice to guide the execution of the strategic intent, as a support to the change management strategy, and as post-occupancy advisor/evaluator.
- actively participate in our thought leadership activities, publishing expert advisory and original perspectives to the marketplace that win influence & credibility.
- engage with potential clients in the earliest stages of conversation, establishing rapport in the first meeting, providing informal advisory, and uncovering needs that you’ll ultimately address in a proposal for a commercial support engagement.
- re-found our Workplace Strategy team initially as a team of 1 (you), supported during 2026 by our outgoing leader, growing our team headcount by the same measure that our project load and reach increases in future years.
What you’ll bring
You’re someone who:
- already has a serious track record in this sort of work – client facing, scoping & pitching, delivering engagements, etc.
- might not yet have been an organisational leader, but you have consulted directly to senior leadership teams of 1000+ employees and can fluently frame their workplace change as a lever for better execution of business strategy.
- may or may not have an interior design background – the important technical capabilities pertain to building clarity of strategic intent, and articulating design principles that transcend physical design to address location, technology, and cultural redesign/change management.
- is comfortable working with numbers & data interpretation – capturing and interpreting occupancy data, headcount projections and so forth, and presenting back space calculations, # of desks, meeting rooms etc as part of early stage ‘in principle’ scenario modelling.
- is instantly likeable and warm, forming ego-less connections with colleagues and clients alike. You read the room, notice the emotion, speak with compassion and nuance. You recognise that the corporate world is often trying to move from factory to self-actualised ecology, where the rise of AI is in contrast with an exquisite sense of what is uniquely human.
- does not parrot the clichés of two-bit strategists who sprinkle terms like “collaboration” and “breaking down silos” onto shallow briefs that are painted by number. You pause, you listen, and hold up a mirror to the client that somehow articulates aspirations for organisational actualisation that they’ve never quite been able to put words to.
- can deftly facilitate a room of personalities, working through differing perspectives and defusing objections in such a way that the right moment of consensus “yes we endorse this” emerges and is not subsequently regretted.
- regardless of your current seniority, is willing to win influence and credibility within Amicus by being a doer not a talker, delivering the work directly and collaborating within an agile, flat organisation of other people-people.
Why Amicus?
We’re an award-winning design and construction business that genuinely puts people first. When you join Amicus, you’ll get:
- A values-led culture built on Teamwork, Accountability and Positivity
- Supportive, human leaders who trust you to do your best work
- Flexibility in how and where you work
- Real opportunity to shape how learning and leadership show up across the business
Sound like you?
If you’re excited by the idea of building capability, growing leaders and creating meaningful learning experiences, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now and help us keep building a workplace where people can do great work — and grow while they’re doing it.
