About the role
Imagine this. You are shaping how people experience work across multiple countries, building environments where teams can move fast, collaborate seamlessly, and perform at their best. As Head of Workplace, you take full ownership of our office ecosystem across Europe, setting the strategy, raising the bar, and making sure every space reflects how we operate as a company. This is not about maintaining offices, it is about building high-performance environments that scale with us.
At Destinus, we are revolutionizing the defense industry with cutting-edge Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Our innovative technologies are designed to meet the unique demands of modern defense operations, delivering unparalleled speed, precision, and cost effectiveness. Destinus partners with government agencies and defense organizations worldwide to provide advanced solutions for mission-critical operations, enabling a new era of efficiency and technological superiority. Join us in shaping the future of defense with groundbreaking aerospace innovations.
What You´ll Do
- Define and drive the workplace strategy across our European office portfolio, aligning with growth, hybrid work, and business priorities
- Build and enforce consistent standards across all locations, from service quality to space utilization and employee experience
- Lead and develop a distributed team of Office Managers, creating alignment, accountability, and a strong shared culture across sites
- Create and implement playbooks, SLAs, and processes that scale as fast as we do
- Own vendor strategy across offices, negotiating contracts, optimizing costs, and ensuring top-tier service delivery
- Oversee daily office operations, ensuring every site runs smoothly, professionally, and feels like a place people want to be
- Drive workplace technology adoption in partnership with IT and Security, from booking systems to access control and support tools
- Partner with leadership on leases, expansions, relocations, and new site launches across Europe
- Lead office fit-outs, refurbishments, and moves, delivering projects on time and on budget
- Work closely with HR to support onboarding, internal events, and culture-building initiatives
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and regulatory requirements across all sites
- Support business continuity and crisis readiness in coordination with Security and Operations
Requirements
What You’ll Need
- Strong experience in workplace, office operations, corporate real estate, or facilities, including leadership across multiple European sites
- Proven ability to manage distributed teams and create consistent standards across different countries and cultures
- Solid experience managing budgets, vendors, and complex service portfolios with a strong commercial mindset
- Hands-on involvement in office openings, relocations, or large-scale refurbishments
- Good understanding of workplace compliance, health and safety, and regulatory requirements in Europe
- Confidence working with senior stakeholders, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Fluent English and ideally another European language
- Willingness to travel regularly across our sites
- High integrity, resilience, and the ability to operate in a fast-moving, evolving environment
Nice to have
- Experience in a high-growth or scaling tech, engineering, or industrial environment
- Exposure to environments with both corporate offices and industrial or production sites
- Familiarity with workplace technology platforms such as desk booking, IWMS, or visitor systems
- Professional certifications in workplace or facilities management
- Experience driving sustainability initiatives across office environments
Who You Are
You thrive in a fast-paced environment where expectations are high and change is constant. You do not just manage operations, you elevate them. You are hands-on when needed, strategic when it matters, and always focused on impact. You connect people, bring structure to complexity, and create environments where teams can do their best work.
You take ownership, move with intent, and care about building something that scales across borders without losing quality.