Senior Occupancy Planner

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Our people at JLL and JLL Technologies are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward. 

What this job involves

To be successful in this role, you should be able to ensure accurate reporting of information and foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations. Ccommunication channels will exist with and not restricted to:

• Corporate Real Estate to review and resolve planning forecast requirements, concerns, and issues
• Business Unit leadership to collect headcount forecasts and resolve headcount forecast discrepancies between leadership’s numbers and those collected at the group level
• Corporate Finance group to gather top-down headcount and growth projections
• Project management to review planning strategies that drive construction projects and support implementation of these projects
• Move coordination and facility management teams to review and approve moves, develop migration plans and conduct facility audits
• Other members of the occupancy planning team to ensure cross campus/portfolio strategy plans are developed
• Preparing and updating project status reports on actual seat demand versus projected seat demand at the building level, reporting out on the current supply and capacity, and forecast inventory changes as required.
• Assembling, updating, and reporting the top-down and bottoms-up seat count projections collected at the group-level for an annual planning horizon and work with the client to reconcile discrepancies from top-down projections, as well as track and report actual seat demand at the group level.
• You must be familiar with typical occupancy metrics, sharing ratios, and industry occupancy trends.

Interested? An ideal candidate would need to have the following qualifications

Desired experience and technical skills 

• A Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate, Finance, Architecture, Design, Construction Management, or related field is required
• Minimum of 5 – 7 years of experience in corporate environment.
• Previous experience in space/occupancy planning at a strategic level, plus experience with interior office renovations is highly desirable.
• CAFM system experience also highly desirable. You’ll need to be dynamic and technologically savvy and utilize software to support planning solutions and communicate ideas clearly with planning team and lines of businesses.
• Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (pivot table, vlook-up, cell calculations), and AutoCAD (basic test-fits and square foot calculations) are desirable.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office suite and ability to consolidate data and floor plans into Power Point for presentations to client and lines of business is highly valued.
• You’ll be effective in your role by learning to ask the right questions to understand the underlying needs of our clients. You’ll discover how to be proactive and innovative with solutions for your stakeholders.
• Excellent communication skills are important – both written and spoken – and we’ll expect you to work independently, multi-task, and manage your time to meet deadlines
• An individual with strong interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with executive level external and internal clients will be successful in the role
• Most importantly, you’ll want to work as part of a diverse supportive and talented team.

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!

Location:

On-site –London, GBR

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! If you require any changes to the application process, please email [email protected] or call +44 (0)20 7493 4933 to contact one of our team members to discuss how to best support you throughout the process. Please note, the contact details provided are to discuss or request for adjustments to be made to the hiring process. Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.

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