Overview

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way. Our people at JLL 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. We seek an Occupancy Planner to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team. What this job involves: As a subject matter expert in occupancy management, you excel at optimizing real estate utilization through data-driven strategies and technological expertise. Your role involves managing clients' workplace needs and balancing capacity, demand, and supply while driving efficiency across occupancy planning products. You'll forecast space requirements, maximize utilization, and develop return-to-office solutions, adapting to portfolio fluctuations. Your responsibilities include fostering critical relationships with clients and stakeholders and establishing effective communication channels to ensure high-quality service delivery. You'll also manage diverse projects, maintain robust client relationships, and provide accurate project status reports. Financial tracking and risk identification are key aspects of your role. Leveraging CAFM systems and AutoCAD, you'll execute complex projects across client portfolios, conduct utilization studies, and implement agile occupancy strategies. Your ability to thrive in dynamic environments, balance multiple priorities, and deliver innovative solutions is crucial. With a strategic mindset, you'll continually adapt to industry trends, ensuring clients benefit from cutting-edge occupancy management practices aligned with their evolving needs. Managing spaces Planning and managing portfolios and maximizing space will be your major focus areas while you assist clients in their migration plans and group and individual moves. This will involve preparing and updating project status reports on actual versus projected seat demand, reporting on the current supply and capacity, and forecasting inventory changes. Besides, you'll recommend and enforce all policies, protocols, standards, and procedures to ensure they are aligned with regulations. Reporting In this role, you'll assemble, update, and report the top-down and bottoms-up seat count projections. One of your major requirements will be to get familiar with space utilization methods and the presentation of utilization data. You'll work closely with clients to reconcile discrepancies from top-down projections and track and report actual seat demand at the group level. Foster relationships You'll foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations. Simultaneously, ensuring coordination and collaboration among business units, especially facility management, will be crucial as you aim for accurate growth projections. Planning strategies that drive construction projects and support their implementation will demand your constant attention, and so will regular facility audits. Sounds like you? To apply, you need to be: Proactive Asking the right questions to understand our clients' underlying needs will help you be effective in your role. We expect you to work independently, multi-task, and manage your time to meet deadlines, as you'll 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 on the job if you have advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (pivot table, vlook-up, cell calculations) and AutoCAD (basic test fits and square foot calculations). Proficiency