Senior Workplace Leader
Listed on 2026-10-04
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Management
Operations Management, Financial Manager, Project & Program Management, BD Manager
The Senior Workplace Leader drives growth through cultivating client relationships, establishing new market opportunities, and providing leadership across the NELSON platform. The Senior Workplace Leader advances NELSON’s market reputation and brand by actively engaging in industry associations and events, and through expanding existing client relationships and developing new lines of work. Is responsible for providing an understanding of all pertinent business information considerations, tangible and intangible, needed for strategic planning and operational decisions.
The Senior Workplace Leader is the face of NELSON in the market as well as the leader within the Workplace practice team in Atlanta.
Additionally, the Senior Workplace Leader ultimately responsible for business performance – revenue, profitability, design and technical for Workplace within the Atlanta office.
Attributes to support the NELSON culture:- Go All In. Own the Outcome.We go all in—with urgency, follow-through, and pride in the result.
- Be Direct. Be Respectful. Be Authentic.We keep it real—with clarity, candor, and care.
- Grow with Purpose.We embrace growth—through learning, coaching, and continuous improvement.
- Think Bold. Execute Smart.We think boldly—and pair ambition with discipline.
- Make Space for Everyone.We value you—and build a culture where people can thrive and do their best work.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty and responsibility satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Critical features of this job are described under the headings below. They may be subject to change at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.
Required Knowledge andSkills:
- Gather market and competitor intelligence and translate into effective positioning of NELSON and continuously gauge appropriate service offerings
- Collaborate with Practice Leaders and others to develop a thoughtful and integrated go-to-market strategy
- Serve as an ambassador of NELSON to the market ensuring the growing strength of the NELSON brand across current and future business opportunities
- Maintain vigilance on all business Profit and Loss indices to include but not limited to accounts receivable, overhead and support expenses, staff utilization, overtime, staffing, and other business projection tools
- Establish and manage annual revenue projections for the market and Workplace in concert with other Leadership
- Partner with Practice Leadership to ensure that talent planning and management occurs at all leadership levels including succession planning, talent assessments and training and development
- Ultimate accountability for growth of NELSON in Workplace
- Focused on creating an overarching strategic plan for Workplace growth in Atlanta
- Execute strategy to include but not limited to retaining and expanding current client relationships, driving increased revenue and profit streams, selection of new strategic business ventures for development and launch, and move forward the NELSON vision
- Possess code knowledge and ensure team has incorporated permitting requirements into the deliverables
- Basic knowledge of design, trends, construction methodology, materials application and manufacturer-supplier appropriateness
- Basic knowledge of sustainability, integrated design and LEED, Well, Energy Star guidelines
- Proficiency in Deltek
- Proficiency in understanding of financial management concepts
- Proficiency in MS Office, including Word, Excel and Outlook
- Foster an environment to elevate and support NELSON’s, Vision, Mission,…
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