Occupancy Planner

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What this job involves

As an Occupancy Planner, you will be responsible for tracking, analyzing and updating space data and using this information in the creation of occupancy planning scenarios to offer comprehensive solutions for our client's portfolio.

Fostering relationships

You'll foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations. Ensuring coordination and collaboration among business units will be crucial, including developing planning strategies that drive construction projects and support their implementation.

Managing spaces

Planning and managing portfolios will be your major focus while supporting clients in their strategic scenario planning and moves. This will involve qualitive and quantitative data to identify trends and insight and to understand supply and demand, resulting in:

• Collecting business requirements per the client program/workplace guidelines
• Developing options
• Blocking & stacking
• Creating test fits (including aisle width, furniture systems and space types)
• Developing migration plans

Regular deliverables would include monthly reporting, periodic data audits, tracking and managing utilization data, gathering space and adjacency requirements and updating space layouts.

Sounds like you? To apply, you need to be:

Tech-savvy

You have a critical thinking skill set and can easily tell a story through data. You will be successful on the job if you have skills in Excel (pivot table, vlookup, cell calculations), understand floorplans and consolidate data into PowerPoint presentations. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, space management systems and AutoCAD will be highly valuable.

A communication champion

Excellent communication skills are important. Strong interpersonal skills, the ability to understand complex ideas and communicate them to others and interacting with executive-level external and internal clients are essential. You'll be effective in your role by learning to ask the right questions to understand the underlying needs of our clients.

Dynamic

Thinking strategically, simplifying the complex, seeing the big picture and driving results are few of the basic requirements of the job. Moreover, you should thrive on change with an appetite for risks and be proactive and innovative with solutions. We would love your intellectual curiosity towards digital drive, hunger for learning and urge to meet deadlines.

Additional skills:

• Critical thinking (analyzing complex issues by identifying patterns, relationships and underlying causes)
• Problem solving (ability to manage tasks, projects and prioritize as needed with minimal help from others, ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams to resolves challenges)
• Decision-making skills (ability to make BAU decisions aligned with business objectives and SLAs, effective in discerning between "need vs. want")
• Client account management (delivering superior service/deliverables, understanding client concerns and the contractual OP scope of work)

Below are the skills and experience that we are looking for:

• Literacy in reading and interpreting floor plans
• A working knowledge of occupancy utilization, office design principles and trends such as a mobile or collaborative workplace
• Attentive to detail and accuracy - particularly numbers and spatial creativity
• Work experience in occupancy or space planning for corporate clients (or interior office planning, furniture planning/management, move/project management or related Facilities function in a corporate real estate setting)
• A bachelor's degree is preferred

Work Arrangement:

• Onsite presence 4 days per week at client site in San Antonio, Texas, with one day remote flexibility

Location:

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

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