Occupancy Planner

About the role

We are looking for an Occupancy Planner to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team. At JLL, we specialize in real estate, helping clients achieve their business ambitions through advanced technology and sustainable solutions. Our global presence includes over 92,000 employees across 80 countries, fostering a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels valued.

Responsibilities

• Track, analyze, and update space data to develop scenario and occupancy plans for our client's portfolio in a designated region.
• Foster critical relationships with various individuals and organizations, ensuring coordination and collaboration among different business units, especially facility management.
• Plan and coordinate construction projects and support their implementation, focusing on accurate growth projections and regular facility audits.
• Create and manage portfolios, maximizing space usage and assisting clients in their migration plans, group, and individual moves.
• Use qualitative and quantitative data to understand supply and demand, and gather space and adjacency requirements, updating space layouts and developing space planning and block diagrams.
• Develop and present utilization data to clients, reconciling discrepancies from top-down projections and tracking actual seat demand at the group level.

Requirements

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, look-ups, cell calculations) and understanding of floor plans.
• Strong communication skills, both written and spoken, with the ability to interact with executive-level clients.
• Literacy in reading and interpreting floor plans, a working knowledge of occupancy utilization, office design principles and trends, and attentiveness to detail and accuracy.
• Experience in occupancy or space planning for corporate clients, or in interior office planning, furniture planning/management, move/project management, or related facilities functions in a corporate real estate setting.

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred.

Skills

• Excellent technical skills, including proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to consolidate data and floor plans into PowerPoint presentations for clients.
• Demonstrated strategic thinking, the ability to simplify complex ideas, and a proactive approach to problem-solving.
• An appetite for change, risk-taking, and innovation, with a strong desire to meet deadlines and learn new things.