Head of Workplace Strategy

• Newly created leadership role 
• Lead the transformation of how Origin employees and visitors experience the workplace 
• Adelaide/Brisbane/Sydney/Melbourne based

Join a team that's All Kinds of Useful

At Origin, being useful is more than a tagline - it's how we approach work every day. As a collective, we're a team that thrives on finding better ways, working together, and owning our impact. From powering homes to delivering award-winning internet and helping to lead Australia's energy transition. If you're driven by purpose and excited to be part of something bigger, we'd love to have you on the journey.

About the Role

As Head of Workplace Strategy & Experience, you'll lead the transformation of how Origin employees and visitors interact with and experience the workplace. This role is responsible for shaping and delivering a workplace experience strategy that is safe, inclusive and inspiring—enabling collaboration, wellbeing and a high-performance culture across our four major office locations.You'll bring a forward-thinking and data-led approach to the modern workplace, embedding design thinking, space analytics, and continuous feedback to deliver high-performing environments aligned to Origin's culture and future ways of working.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver Origin's Workplace Strategy, aligning physical environments with business needs, safety outcomes, and the employee experience.
• Lead a national team delivering workplace planning, service design, and operational delivery across our office locations.
• Build and mature capability in workplace analytics to drive data-led insights into utilisation, space optimisation and performance.
• Champion inclusive, accessible and psychologically safe design principles—supporting diverse and high-performing teams.
• Partner across HSE, Property, Technology, and People & Culture to ensure workplaces are safe, secure, high-performing and ready for the future.
• Drive service excellence and operational improvement through standardisation, innovation, and continuous improvement.

About You

You're a strategic and people-centred leader who thrives at the intersection of experience, operations and design. You bring deep expertise in workplace strategy and office operations, and are confident leading transformation at both strategic and delivery levels.You will thrive in this role if you can:

• Design and execute a forward‑looking workplace strategy that anticipates future workforce needs — shaping how Origin's offices enable collaboration, performance, inclusion and wellbeing.
• Lead and inspire geographically dispersed teams to deliver consistently excellent workplace experiences.
• Translate data and insight into forward-looking workplace strategies and decisions.
• Influence and collaborate with senior leaders across business functions.
• Balance strategic thinking with operational execution and service delivery.
• Foster a culture of inclusion, service, safety and continuous improvement.

You'll also have:

• Proven experience in workplace strategy, employee experience or corporate real estate, including senior leadership roles.
• A track record of leading large, multi-site portfolios and distributed teams.
• Demonstrated success using analytics and design principles to improve performance, safety and employee engagement.

Why Origin

At Origin, we're working to get energy right for our customers, communities and the planet. Our people are central to that purpose, and we're proud to offer:

• Flexible working and supportive leadership.20 weeks paid parental leave for primary carers, plus volunteer leave.
• Learning and leadership development through our Learning Hub and LinkedIn Learning.
• Energy discounts and access to our Employee Share Plan.
• A culture guided by our values – Work as one team, Be the customer champion, Care about our impact, Find a better way, Be accountable.

Origin - Where good change happens

We are committed to fostering a diverse, gender equitable workforce, where everyone is welcome, and all applications are evaluated on merit and potential. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, people living with disabilities, culturally diverse people, any stage in life, people with intersex variations and people within LGBTQ+ communities, including trans and gender diverse. 
 

Enjoy a challenging career in an exciting industry where you can grow and explore your potential. If you think you have transferable skills, an appetite to learn and would be a great fit, we'd love to hear from you. 

Here's a little about us:

Background checks may be required to determine your suitability for this position as part of the recruitment process and during your employment. These checks may include police checks, AusCheck, medical assessment and/or drug and alcohol testing.

Please note unsolicited CVs from agencies will not be accepted.

Origin recognises Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia, and we pay our respects to Elders past, present and future.