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Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Occupancy Planner to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team near Andover, MA. This is an on-site position requiring someone to be on-site 3-5 days a week.
As Senior Occupancy Planner, you will be responsible for providing strategic occupancy planning expertise, leveraging a deep understanding of our client’s space supply and demand to develop scenario and occupancy plans for our client's portfolio on a designated campus.
Fostering relationships
You will foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations, including:
- Site Leadership to review and resolve planning forecast requirements, concerns, and issues
- Business Unit leadership to collect headcount forecasts and resolve headcount forecast discrepancies between their numbers and those collected at the group level
- Corporate Finance group to gather top-down headcount and growth projections
- Support and inform Capital and Master Planning initiatives
- Support and inform project move coordination with facility management and project management delivery teams to review and approve moves, develop migration plans, and conduct facility audits and
- Share, support, and collaborate with other JLL site space/occupancy members to ensure the development of portfolio strategy plans across client locations as applicable.
Driving optimal occupancy planning solutions
Your primary focus areas for this role will be managing the development of occupancy plans, sequencing group-level and individual moves, and resolving planning issues identified during client planning sessions. You will ensure the alignment of planning with corporate guidelines and that all scenarios maximize the use of space. You will recommend, educate, and enforce space policies/standards, procedures, and protocols, notify the client of customer-requested exceptions, and, as necessary, assist in developing site-specific space planning strategies with Senior Leadership. You will be a Subject Matter Expert in the client's workplace program and in using data to drive solutions that increase productivity. You will be a leader of Occupancy Planning and part of the site account team, modelling superior client relationship management and strategic thinking.
Reporting
One of your major requirements will be to get familiar with space utilization methods and the presentation of utilization data. Interacting with organizational leadership, you will identify space requirements and prepare and update project status reports on actual versus projected seat demand at the building level. In addition, you will report on current supply and capacity, forecast inventory changes as required, and work with the client to reconcile any discrepancies from top-down projections.
Sounds like you? To apply, you need to be:
Critical thinker
Asking the right questions to understand our clients' underlying needs will help you be effective in your role. We will expect you to work independently, multi-task, and manage your time to meet deadlines, as you will often need to reorganize your daily schedule to deal with your team's changing necessities and requests. We will also look to you to be proactive and innovative in developing solutions with your stakeholders and driving their implementation.
Tech-savvy
You will be successful in the role if you are comfortable using software to support planning solutions and communicate ideas clearly with the planning team and client. This includes having advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (pivot table, vlook-up, cell calculations). In addition, proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to consolidate data and floor plans into PowerPoint Presentations and experience with CAFM / IWMS software will be highly valuable.
A communication champion
Excellent communication skills are important – both written and spoken. An individual with strong people skills, able to understand complex ideas and communicate them to others, and an ability to interact with executive-level external and internal clients will be successful in this role. Most importantly, it would help if you look forward to working as part of a diverse, supportive, and talented team.
Dynamic
Thinking strategically, simplifying the complex, seeing the big picture, and driving results are the role's basic requirements expectations. Moreover, you should thrive on change and have an appetite for risks. We would love your intellectual curiosity towards digital drive, hunger for learning, and urge to meet deadlines.
Below are the skills and experience that we are looking for:
- 7-10 years of experience in corporate environment, preferably in strategic space / occupancy planning. Ability to lead through influence.
- Expert-level data analytical skills and ability to articulate stories through data
- Attentive to detail and accuracy - particularly numbers and spatial creativity
- Highly organized and demonstrate a high level of performance in project budgeting and scheduling
- A working knowledge of occupancy utilization, office design principles, and trends such as the mobile or collaborative workplace is preferred
- A bachelor’s degree in real estate, Finance, Architecture, Design, Construction Management, or related field is preferred
This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Estimated compensation for this position:
107,690.00 – 135,000.00 USD per year
This range is an estimate and actual compensation may differ. Final compensation packages are determined by various considerations including but not limited to candidate qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.
Location:
On-site –Andover, MA
If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements. We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!
Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:
JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits may include:
401(k) plan with matching company contributions
Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care
Paid parental leave at 100% of salary
Paid Time Off and Company Holidays
Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay
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