Workplace Experience Manager

What you will do

• Shape and implement the imec workplace vision into all ongoing and new campus and catering projects. Bring the employee experience and hospitality perspective to both long-term investments and operational decisions, and drive implementation choices (from meeting rooms to sports and wellbeing facilities).
• Equip managers to lead and guide teams through the transitions these projects bring. You offer a range of consultancy services, ranging from support with creating buy-in to co-creation, team agreements. You communicate frequently with leadership, managers, teams and employees. 
• Implement and manage a new catering & hospitality strategy and offering. You own the new and upgraded food and beverage vendor management and incessantly steer towards quality, sustainability, capture rate, and budget KPIs. Our campus masterplan offers excellent opportunities to do just that.
• Bring continuous improvement based on (imec) data-driven insights and best practices from external benchmarks, ensuring impactful feedback loops.
• Guide and support workplace transformations across imec’s international sites, ensuring a consistent imec look & feel and leveraging learnings from other locations. 
• Report into the executive team overseeing the campus masterplans, and ensure seamless collaboration across functions (Facilities, HR, ICT) to reach the shared objectives.

What we do for you

We offer you the opportunity to join one of the world’s premier research centers in nanotechnology at its headquarters in Leuven, Belgium. With your talent, passion and expertise, you’ll become part of a team that makes the impossible possible. Together, we shape the technology that will determine the society of tomorrow.

We are committed to being an inclusive employer and proud of our open, multicultural, and informal working environment with ample possibilities to take initiative and show responsibility. We commit to supporting and guiding you in this process; not only with words but also with tangible actions. Through imec.academy, 'our corporate university', we actively invest in your development to further your technical and personal growth. 

We are aware that your valuable contribution makes imec a top player in its field. Your energy and commitment are therefore appreciated by means of a market appropriate salary with many fringe benefits. 

Who you are

• You have experience in one or more of the following areas: workplace strategy, catering management, hospitality management, or a similar role 
• You are familiar with a technology or research-driven environment and/or a dynamic international setting
• You embrace innovation and sustainability, you are creative and solution-oriented
• You have excellent stakeholder management, presentation and negotiation skills, enabling you to work effectively with vendors, executives and employees at all levels
• You have experience in managing people, contracts, and operational budgets
• You understand the effect of a workplace on employee effectiveness, well-being and community building
• You are fluent in English; Dutch proficiency is a strong plus.

IMEC and its affiliates will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. IMEC will consider unsolicited referrals and/or resumes submitted by vendors such as search firms, staffing agencies, professional recruiters, fee-based referral services and recruiting agencies (hereafter “Agency”) to have been referred by the Agency free of charge. IMEC will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have a prior written agreement with IMEC, validated by its HR department, in place regarding a specific job opening and allowing to submit resumes.