Job Details

Space Planning Specialist

Location: Hybrid onsite schedule in Culver City, CA

Duration: 6 months; potential to extend

Pay: up to $51.95/hour, DOE

Planet Interactive is seeking a Space Planning Specialist to join our well-known Fortune 500 client on a 6-month contract. This role will be 40 hours per week and is hybrid in Culver City.

Responsibilities:

- Support the space program lead by coordinating and executing various space planning initiatives and special projects across studios globally to accommodate staffing needs and other business requirements.

- Support program lead with gathering space needs from teams - align requests to long-range workplace strategy plans

- Support quarterly space forecasting

- Maintain accurate digital floor maps for each of the studio locations

- Handle day-to-day issues and troubleshooting of seating challenges

- Navigate competing priorities and manage negotiations between teams as needed

- Manage requests for moves, adds, and changes with facilities

- Ensure changes are documented and communicated to impacted parties

- Proactively identify and escalate issues appropriately, and participate in their resolution

- Partner with program lead to effectively manage occupancy plans, ratios, headcount projections, and report to stakeholders

- Monitor, analyze, and interpret large data sets. Generate ad hoc reports as requested.

- Coordinate with partners to manage 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 relocation

Qualifications:

- BA/BS or equivalent experience.

- 3+ years of prior experience in coordination, project management or space planning of creative spaces preferred

- Detail-oriented with a real passion for organization

- Superb written and verbal communication skills

- Ability to effectively interact with all levels of an organization and management and ability to build external networks

- Thrives in a fast-paced and informal environment

- Keen ability to grasp complexity quickly and to focus on key issues

- Strong analytical skills - interpreting large data sets and using data to weigh trade-offs

- Service-oriented approach - Desire to deliver innovative and exceptional customer-focused solutions

- Outstanding communication and presentation skills, written and verbal, to all levels of an organization

- Familiarity with workplace management solutions, e.g., Tririga