Director, Occupancy Planning

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What this job involves:
Lead strategic occupancy excellence as a Director of Occupancy Planning & Management with JLL, where you'll play a crucial role ensuring delivery of JLL best practices through Occupancy Planning & Management products, solutions, and tools to real estate clients while serving as the leader for delivery of occupancy planning tasks and bringing best practices, industry insight, and thought leadership to accounts.

You'll act as a trusted advisor to clients and account teams while fostering critical relationships between various individuals and organizations, ensuring coordination and collaboration among JLL businesses. This role positions you as a strategic leader in workplace optimization, where your expertise in team management, client advisory services, and space portfolio strategy will directly impact client satisfaction and organizational success. Your leadership will contribute to JLL's occupancy planning excellence while you manage teams, drive results through emotional intelligence and strategic thinking, and serve as Subject Matter Expert for key systems, processes, and client deliverables.

What your day-to-day will look like:
Partner with clients building sustainable structures for occupancy planning based on industry best practices while acting as trusted advisor bringing thought leadership and strategic insight

Manage occupancy planning teams ensuring alignment with client occupancy planning organizations and goals while training, mentoring, and cultivating diverse skill sets and talents

Partner with account teams ensuring alignment of holistic account goals and proper integration for One JLL culture while cultivating collaborations with Relocation Project Management,  Facilities Management, Project Management, and local stakeholders

Achieve or exceed all Occupancy Planning performance metrics while creating accurate planning reports supporting Corporate Real Estate decision-making including space, demand, and utilization tracking

Take accountability for implementing process improvements optimizing service delivery while partnering with Technology Subject Matter Experts enhancing deliverables through technology enablement

Collaborate with Space Data Insights Team ensuring meticulous accuracy in occupancy data while adhering to established data quality key performance indicators and managing space portfolios

Plan and manage portfolios maximizing space efficiency while assisting clients in migration plans, group and individual moves, reviewing project status reports on actual versus projected demand, and forecasting inventory changes

Required Qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Real Estate, Finance, Architecture, Design, Construction Management, or related field required with 7-15 years of experience in corporate environment including space/occupancy planning and data management at strategic level

Exceptional communication skills coupled with excellent active listening abilities, presentation skills to promote ideas persuasively, and capability to establish strong relationships across all organizational levels

Strong bias towards transformation and execution with structured approach to problem solving, natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics, and commercially/financially astute mindset

Ability to effectively oversee management of an Occupancy Planning team comprising individuals with diverse skill sets while knowing how to…