Healthy Building & Workplace Experience Lead

EDGE Amsterdam; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

EDGE Amsterdam is seeking a Healthy Building & Workplace Experience Lead to drive Edge’s global health and social ambitions across projects. You will collaborate with our international Innovation and ESG teams and work with local Development and Commercial teams to advance Edge’s product philosophy.

You will identify trends, engage communities, analyze data, and develop tools to quantify human performance benefits, strengthening the business case for healthier, user-centric office buildings.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Architecture, Real Estate, or related field.
• 5–7 years of work experience in the built environment.
• Knowledge of global market dynamics and healthy-building trends.
• Excellent presentation and communication skills.
• Self-driven, problem-solver, team player with results orientation.
• Ability to handle time pressure in a dynamic environment.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office; data analysis skills.
• Fluent English; Dutch or German language skills.

Responsibilities

• Identify trends, regulations, and customer demands; translate into Edge's health and social product propositions.
• Support and advise local project teams to implement Edge’s health and social ambition across all projects.
• Set up local community engagement.
• Strengthen commercial project positioning and stakeholder engagement.
• Implement data collection from Edge projects to prove the proposition.
• Develop a tool to quantify benefits of human performance for the business case.
• Deliver input to the Annual Edge Sustainability Report related to social and health ambitions and case studies.

Skills

Presentation skills

Communication skills

Data analysis

Microsoft Office

Team player

Time management

Problem solving

Languages: English + Dutch or German

Education

Master's degree in Architecture/Real Estate or related field

Tools

Microsoft Office Suite

Job description

At Edge, we are a fast-growing real estate investor and developer pioneering the future of the built environment. With a team of over 100 professionals, we focus on new developments, redevelopments, and investments in standing assets—always with the ambition to create healthier, smarter, and more sustainable buildings. Having delivered over 1 million square meters and received more than 40 international awards for sustainability and innovation, we are proud to shape timeless spaces that put people first without putting the planet last.

Our Company Values:"We are Edge"

• E ntrepreneurship; We take initiative, think creatively, and embrace smart risk-taking to create lasting value and drive innovation.
• D rive; We are ambitious, focused, and resilient, always pushing forward with energy and determination to achieve meaningful results and bring the extra 20% that nobody expects but everyone remembers.
• G rounded; We remain practical, humble, and authentic, guided by integrity and committed to what truly matters: trust, respect, and strong, long-term relationships.
• E xcellence; We hold ourselves to the highest standards, continuously striving to improve and deliver outstanding quality in everything we do.

Are you the kind of person who brings these values to life?

What is amazing about this job?

You have the possibility to develop better buildings for the world. You will be part of our international Innovation Team and ESG Team and also work closely together with the local Development and Commercial Teams. You will help to further develop Edge’s product philosophy and the implementation thereof in our projects across our operating countries.

Responsibilities you have

As a Healthy Building & Workplace Experience Lead, you are responsible for Edge’s global health and social ambition for our projects, which includes the following:

• Identify emerging trends, regulatory frameworks, and customer demands and translate this to continuously develop Edge’s healthy building and social product proposition to make sure we stay a front runner for healthy, user-centric (office) buildings
• Support and advise local project teams to
  • implement Edge’s health and social ambition across all projects (and business units
  • set up local community engagement, and
  • strengthen commercial project positioning and stakeholder engagement,
• Implement data collection from Edge projects to proof the proposition,
• Develop a tool to quantify the benefits of human performance to further strengthen the business case for healthy, user-centric (office) buildings,
• Deliver input to Annual Edge Sustainability Report related to social and health ambitions and case studies

Skills required /qualifications

• Master degree in Architecture, Real Estate, or similar; or relevant scientific background,
• 5-7 years work experience in the built environment,
• Extensive knowledge of global market dynamics, emerging trends, and regulatory frameworks related to healthy buildings and state-of-the‑art workplace environments,
• Excellent presentation and communication skills,
• Self-reliant, problem solver, team player, results oriented,
• Able to cope with time pressure and dynamic surroundings,
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office Suite,
• Affinity and skills to analyse data and translate into actionable steps,

Strong written, oral, interpersonal, skills in English as well as Dutch or German language

Are you ready to embrace the challenge and be part of our journey?

Contact person

Nicolette Speerstra Head of People and Culture