Pushing boundaries.

Designing the ‘future of work’ has never been more exciting; with disrupted norms and tremendous opportunities to align brand, office, culture and employee experience to create the next generation of workplaces. Our role requires an engaging and experienced person interested in cultural and behavioural change, how it connects to brand and employee experience, and how it can be influenced by carefully curated interventions and innovative workplace design. The ideal candidate must have behavioural change experience and/or workplace consultancy experience in complex environments, be able to design and deliver programmes of change, be highly collaborative and have excellent client relationship and communication skills.

To work within a wider MCM team to contribute and sometimes lead the design of MCM projects as well as contributing to the success of MCM in more ways than just delivering projects. The role involves managing all stages of a project ranging from taking responsibility for developing a brief with a client and leading the design through the various stages of design to delivery on site. Bring your creative spark to projects and be proactive in nurturing and mentoring junior staff. Get involved in company-wide initiatives and develop your own areas of special interests which could be for example workplace strategy, sustainability, wellness, design or technical excellence. Develop client relationships and be a great ambassador for MCM. Most importantly bring your passion for great design and be yourself.

The ideal candidate must be detail orientated and enjoy setting up systems and processes to support the wider team, have strong skills in data collection and analysis and the ability to turn that data into meaningful outputs. They will provide the rigour and evidence required to build a case for change and so strong communication skills and visual presentation skills are a must. Supporting with the administration, tools and systems that keep our projects running smoothly, they will be a critical and central role in the team, so a calm, confident and highly organised working style is a must. This role sits within the Consultancy Team which consists of workplace consultants and behavioural change consultants.

We are looking for someone with a spark who is passionate about design and wants to contribute to our design process at every stage, whilst being prepared to challenge convention and push the boundaries of architecture. As a practice our architecture, interiors and behavioural change teams often work together on the same projects, as a single team without the conventional boundaries of discipline. There are weekly design reviews across the practice and our architecture team has a regular forum to discuss our ideas for projects which goes beyond just the project team contributing ideas. Along with all the usual things you would expect from a creative and driven employer, we are a highly connected and friendly practice. We are very social and are proud of our benefits package. We are BCorp certified and members of Architects Declare. MCM plan to be Net Zero Carbon in the next five years. As a practice we are committed to providing our people with the best development and project experience to help them grow and have an impact on the world.

The Associate’s role is to assume ownership, responsibility and accountability for the delivery of Projects on time, within budget and to the right quality. At times they may be required to assume a Designer or Technical role on projects. Manage the project resources to ensure profitability of projects under your remit.