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Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology to our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people in our industry; and we support them through professional growth, flexibility, and personalized benefits to manage life in and outside of work. Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades, and technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, we empower you to shape a brighter way forward so you can thrive professionally and personally.
Occupancy Planning Professional
Work Dynamics
About JLL
We’re JLL. We’re a professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. As a Fortune 500 company, we help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions.If you’re looking to step up your career, JLL is the perfect professional home. With us, you’ll have a chance to innovate with the world’s leading businesses, put that expertise into action on landmark projects, and work on game-changing real estate initiatives. You’ll also make long-lasting professional connections and be inspired by the best. We’re focused on opportunity and want to help you make the most of yours. Achieve your ambitions - join us at JLL!
Job Description
As an Occupancy Planner you’ll be responsible for managing the client’s space portfolio by understanding their workplace’s capacity, demand and supply. You will develop migration plans and sequencing of group-level and individual moves as well as facilitating and/or resolving planning issues identified. You will identify and recommend policies and procedures, maximising space and driving solutions to improve productivity and efficiency.
One of your key responsibilities will be to foster critical relationships with various clients and stakeholders. You will need to establish clear and open communication channels ensuring our clients receive the highest quality service and delivery. Managing many varying projects whilst ensuring a robust relationship is key.
You’ll also be accountable for preparing and updating accurate regular and ad hoc reports, to the client and to your direct line manager. This will require your familiarity with typical occupancy metrics and industry occupancy trends.
What this job involves:
- Perform management and tracking of agreed space and occupancy data sets, such as seat assignments, space types, architectural layouts, within relevant technologies
- Development of space solutions by analysing occupancy, utilisation and space data.
- Tactical Occupancy Planning duties (e.g. Space Planning & Block and Stack Plans) including preparation of options/recommendations.
- Contribute Strategic planning ideas with other members of the occupancy planning team to resolve campus/building-specific forecasts, needs, concerns, and issues.
- Work with FMs and PMs on projects related to moves, space audits, occupancy, vacancy, and change management.
- Collaborate with project and construction teams on large, multi-phase relocations/restacks..
- Ensure accurate reporting of space related information (using IWMS tools) and foster critical relationships between various individuals and organisations such as Department Managers and/or Administrative Assistants to collect seating assignments.
- Identify proactive needs/troubleshoot deficiencies to address concerns and initiate best practices
Behavioural Competencies
- Think Big - Thinks strategically, simplifies the complex, solves complex problems, sees the big picture
- Drive Change - Thrives on change, learning agility, intellectually curious, appetite for risks, digital drive
- Helps others - Builds relationships, actively collaborates, helps others succeed.
- Get it done - Acts decisively, drives results, passion to win, takes ownership, accountable, resilient
- Business first - Focuses on customers and clients, business/financial acumen, JLL first
- Inspire - Inspire others, creates vision and strategy, energizes others
Sound like you? To apply you will have:
- Strong interpersonal skills - respect; enthusiastic; patience; agile; precise and logic
- Flexibilities and adaptability to the changes
- Growth mindset - Strong desire to develop new and varied skills; Conscious of improvements
- Value teamwork with respect
- Ability to effectively deal with high pressure situations
- Understanding of the crucial data management processes; Attention to detail and accuracy, particularly numbers and spatial creativity
- Ability to deliver in a fast-paced, high-volume environment with tight operational deadlines
- Ability to translate data into planning initiatives & data-driven decision making
- Excellent communicator across different levels of the business; Ability to coordinate and manage multiple stakeholders across Global Platform
- Superior communications and client relationship management skills
- Excellent English written and oral communication skills (and local language where appropriate)
- Strong Google Product knowledge(Slide,Doc,Form,Site), or PowerPoint and Advanced Excel skills (formulas, pivot tables, charts, Macro…)
- Previous experience in space/occupancy planning or MAC experience is preferred
- AutoCAD and CAFM system experience are also highly desirable.
What you can expect from us
We’re an entrepreneurial, inclusive culture. We succeed together - across the desk and around the globe. We believe the best inspire the best, so we invest in supporting each other, learning together and celebrating our success.
Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your ambitions in career, recognition, well-being, benefits and pay. We’ll offer you a competitive salary and benefits package.
With us, you’ll develop your strengths and enjoy a career full of varied experiences. We can’t wait to see where your ambitions take you at JLL.
Apply today!
If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet all of the requirements below. 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.
About JLL –
We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 102,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities.
Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.
Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.
