Workplace Manager
A place to do your best work:
Flexport is on a mission to fix the user experience in Global Trade. We are the first licensed freight forwarder and customs brokerage built around a modern tech stack. We help the world's fastest growing brands manage their international supply chains, providing a fully-managed service for moving products between any two places on the planet.
Started in 2013, we've raised $204M from investors that include Founders Fund, Google Ventures, First Round Capital, Bloomberg Beta, Y Combinator, & more.
To keep up with our growth, we’re looking for a smart and passionate Workplace Manager for our growing team to help in building and scaling business expansion projects. Keep reading!
What you’ll do:
- Manage offices and/or warehouses as they come online in your territory.
- Partner with the Regional Head of Real Estate & Workplace on new office location set up and opening
- Communicate with building management, assuring the office operates within building rules and regulations.
- Manage space planning efforts and all internal office moves.
- Support strategies and events to keep employees active and engaged in Flexport culture
- Manage all vendors across facilities and office-related functions.
- Help maintain the appearance of the office conference rooms, kitchens, and common areas.
- Keep the office in compliance with monthly audits and hold the team accountable to a high standard of security for employee safety.
- Ability to oversee and manage to an assigned budget
- Work in conjunction with IT Help Desk implementing cross-functional projects
- Admin support and additional projects as needed
- Work to implement strategies and events to keep employees active and engaged in Flexport culture
What you’ll need:
- A BS/BA degree and/or comparable experience required.
- 3+ years of managerial experience in workplace, ideally in a high-growth environment of 300 plus people in the facility
- Previous experience managing direct reports
- Experience in setting up new offices is a plus
- A demonstrated ability to lead and build trusting, collaborative relationships within the team
- A passion for people. You are smart, thoughtful, emotionally intelligent, and excited to bring out the best in people
- Strong communication skills
- A demonstrated ability to work collaboratively across departments within a complex organization
- A structured and organized approach to your work
- A strong sense of urgency and personal accountability (you take the initiative to make things happen)
- Professionalism including the ability to make a good first impression and demonstrate respectful, friendly, and welcoming behavior
Find Your Role at Flexport
- Account Management
- Account Solutions & Implementation
- Business Enablement
- Business Operations
- Compensation
- Customs
- Data Science & Analytics
- Engineering
- Finance
- Flexport Ecosystem
- Flexport.org
- General Management
- Global Brand
- IT
- Infrastructure
- Legal
- Marketing
- Office of CEO
- Office of CTO
- Operational Excellence
- Partnerships
- People
- Product Management
- Sales
- Security
- Supply Chain Operations
- Technical Program Management
- Trade & Financial Services
- Trade Lane Management, Fulfillment & Procurement
- Trucking
- User Experience
- Warehousing
- Workplace & Facilities
- Amsterdam
- Atlanta
- Bellevue
- Chicago
- Copenhagen
- Dallas
- Germany
- Hamburg
- Ho Chi Minh City
- Hong Kong
- Italy
- Los Angeles
- Madrid
- Miami
- New York City
- San Francisco
- Shanghai
- Shenzhen
- Singapore
- Spain
- Toronto
- U.S. Remote
- United States
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