Workplace Design Senior Project Manager

Design at Morningstar
At Morningstar, designers play an integral role in how we build our products, visualize data, and reinforce the Morningstar brand. Thoughtful design shapes everything from our user-friendly products to our communications and workplace environments worldwide. Workplace Design seeks to continually evolve our design approach to solving the problems of how the workplace can best express brand, inspire creativity and community and deliver alignment with overall business needs. We believe in workplaces that are bright, open and built with quality natural materials with sustainable practices.
Morningstar
At Morningstar we're committed to our mission, to empower investor success, helping investors all over the world reach their financial goals. Great people are our most important assets and essential to our success. Design has been a huge part of our success. It has transformed good products into great products and given us a distinctive edge over our competition. Founded in Chicago in 1984, Morningstar, Inc. is a leading, global provider of independent investment research. We operate in 32 countries... We empower by building products and offering services that connect people to the investing information and tools they need.
Our Employee Experience
Our headquarters building and the workplace experience around the world were designed as egalitarian, open-office environments, where everyone from the executives to a summer intern sit in the same open area, same type of desk and work in the same collaborative way. An extension of the brand.
The Role
We are looking to hire a Design Project Manager who is a thinker and a doer ..., you will manage critical projects working in a highly collaborative environment with executive management, environmentalists, designers, architects, engineers, contractors, technologists, real estate brokers, facilities managers, quantity surveyors. An ideal candidate has a strong background coordinating the work of globally distributed teams on complex projects with a focus on quality assurance. Proven experience driving multiple and challenging projects in a fast-paced environment is critical. This position is based in Chicago, Morningstar's home in the heart of the city. This intimacy with the urban environment has become an integral part of our corporate culture.
Responsibilities:
At Morningstar, the workplace is where we come together, and our brand takes on a tangible expression. The Senior Manager of Workplace Design will -

• Manage execution of multiple workplace design projects in different stages from discovery, through design and construction
• Your serotonin levels are up doing this across diverse time zones, currencies, cultural differences, in an on-going basis
• Must be comfortable traveling internationally depending on evolving needs toward projects' delivery. In rough average this may translate to a quarterly trip
• Become well versed in workplace design taxonomy and evolution, working with and connecting diverse constituencies
• Organize solid project teams, driving them to deliver, with innate dexterity for financial controls, project scheduling, statutory compliance, risk management
• Deliver high quality projects based on Morningstar's ethos and business goals, under the leadership of the Global Director of Workplace Design, the Chief Design Officer, according to Morningstar's Workplace Design Program
• Communicate regular project status updates across all stakeholder groups. Cultivate a culture of team collaboration along with open and honest communication
• Deliver projects with the highest standard in innovative sustainability, accessibility and overall experience design. Partnering to meet or exceed Morningstar's commitment to be Carbon Neutral by 2050 (50% by 2030). Executing with a circular economy mindset delivering a better environment than we found it. Delivering a workspace to suit everyone, in a distributed work environment

Qualifications:

• I've been developing environments around the world which are smart and inspiring
• My top professional concern is delivering memorable, uplifting, safe, and valuable environments
• My bachelor's degree (or higher) is relevant to architectural design management
• I'm an independent thinker, simplifying complexity, to build a brighter future
• I'm driven to deliver projects with the highest quality - analytical skills are fundamental to thrive in a company of thinkers, researchers and analysts
• I leverage teamwork in order to exceed expectations on all projects
• Communication is my main tool to deliver successful projects
• I'm effective at coaching teams and providing feedback to stakeholders/executives
• My professional experience is relevant to architectural design management, 8+ years
• I dominate basic software tools such as MS Office suite, video conferencing
• I'm familiar with technical software tools such as AutoCAD, project management tools like Asana
• I hold (or in the middle of securing) an ESG certification from a reputable global accreditation institution, such as ILFI, fitwel, IWBI, BRE, NABERS, USGBC
• I'm looking forward to working mostly from the Chicago HQ workplace

How to apply:
Please include a portfolio of work that you're most proud of, so you can tell stories about your experience and the impact you've had. We're interested in the designs you've created and want to understand how you work with a team to solve problems.
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Morningstar's hybrid work environment gives you the opportunity to work remotely and collaborate in-person each week. We've found that we're at our best when we're purposely together on a regular basis, at least three days each week. A range of other benefits are also available to enhance flexibility as needs change. No matter where you are, you'll have tools and resources to engage meaningfully with your global colleagues.