Workplace Experience Coordinator 

What you will do

We want you to enhance our workplace experience and make it innovative, attractive and sustainable. From campus choices to healthy food & beverages, through your guidance, expertise and ability to support change, you will contribute to the bottom-line of employee satisfaction and the imec employer brand. 

• Work with and implement the imec workplace vision into all ongoing and new campus and catering projects. Embed the employee experience and hospitality perspective into procedures, practices and implementation choices. Co-ordinate and communicate operational decisions according to this framework (from meeting rooms to sports and wellbeing facilities).
• Equip managers and guide teams through the transitions these projects bring, together with partner Brainmove. You offer a range of services, ranging from support with creating buy-in to co-creating team agreements. You communicate frequently with managers, teams and employees. 
• Implement and manage a new catering & hospitality strategy and offering. You are responsible for 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 or external benchmarks, ensuring impactful feedback loops.
• Support workplace transformations across imec’s international sites, ensuring a consistent imec look & feel and leveraging learnings from other locations. 
• Report to the CHRO Director responsible for Workplace Experience. Initiate and maintain 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 strong stakeholder management, project management and communication skills (presentation, collaboration), enabling you to work effectively with vendors, managers and employees at all levels
• 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.