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About the Role

The Americas Head of Workplace Planning serves as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders, helping shape workplace solutions that enhance employee experience, support business objectives, optimize occupancy costs, and maximize the value of the firm's real estate investments. The role combines workplace strategy, client engagement, data analytics, and financial planning to drive informed portfolio decisions across the Americas. This role requires a thoughtful perspective on how the workplace continues to evolve to support changing business needs, coupled with a disciplined, data-driven approach to testing ideas, measuring outcomes, and scaling successful solutions across the portfolio.

Responsibilities

Partner directly with senior leaders across the firm to understand workplace challenges, business priorities, growth plans, and organizational needs.
Advise clients on workplace solutions that balance employee experience, productivity, collaboration, compliance, and cost efficiency.
Lead strategic workplace discussions, presenting options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and financial implications to executives and stakeholders.
Facilitate decision-making on workplace investments, space allocations, portfolio optimization opportunities, and future workplace models.
Serve as a trusted advisor on workplace trends, benchmarking, and emerging practices that can improve business outcomes.
Lead and develop a team of workplace planning professionals responsible for occupancy planning, workplace strategy, and portfolio analytics.
Drive an integrated planning approach across space, technology, security, and workplace experience functions.
Establish governance processes for workplace requests, ensuring alignment on scope, schedule, budget, and strategic objectives.
Coordinate with project management, engineering, security, facilities, hospitality, and technology teams to deliver workplace solutions effectively.
Leverage workplace data, utilization metrics, and portfolio analytics to identify opportunities and inform decision-making.
Develop meaningful reporting that helps clients understand workplace performance, costs, and utilization trends.
Translate complex workplace and occupancy data into actionable business recommendations.
Identify and evaluate opportunities to improve space efficiency while maintaining an exceptional workplace experience.
Develop business cases and evaluate workplace initiatives through both employee experience and financial lenses.
Quantify the impact of workplace decisions on occupancy costs, capital investments, utilization, and long-term portfolio strategy.
Partner with Finance, Corporate Real Estate, and business leaders to prioritize investments and optimize real estate performance.
Support stay-vs-go analyses, location strategies, footprint optimization initiatives, and major workplace transformations.
Oversee investment prioritization, and long-range capital and occupancy strategies.

Requirements

12+ years of experience in workplace strategy, corporate real estate, occupancy planning, architecture, workplace consulting, or a related field.
Demonstrated success advising senior executives and influencing complex business decisions.
Strong financial acumen with the ability to develop business cases and communicate economic impacts of workplace decisions.
Excellent presentation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
Proven ability to lead teams and drive cross-functional initiatives in a complex organization.
Data-driven mindset with experience leveraging analytics to solve business problems.
Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and change management capabilities.
Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution in a fast-paced environment.

Skills

Workplace strategy
Corporate real estate
Occupancy planning
Architecture
Workplace consulting
Client engagement
Data analytics
Financial planning
Portfolio decisions
Benchmarking
Reporting
Business cases
Stakeholder management
Executive communication
Team leadership
Cross-functional initiatives
Problem-solving
Negotiation
Change management

Location

New York, NY, United States

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

VP
12+ years

Salary/Compensations

$100000-$265000

Benefits

Discretionary bonus
Valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings

About the Company

At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs. Learn more about our culture, benefits, and people at GS.com/careers.
We’re committed to finding reasonable accommodations for candidates with special needs or disabilities during our recruiting process. Learn more: https://www.goldmansachs.com/careers/footer/disability-statement.html

Equal Opportunity

Goldman Sachs is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, veterans status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.