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As a Senior Occupancy Planner, you’ll be driving the development of occupancy plans and sequencing of large group-level moves as well as facilitate and/or resolve planning issues identified in customer planning meetings. You will ensure that planning is aligned with corporate guidelines, and that all scenarios maximize use of space.  You will recommend, educate, and enforce space policies/standards, procedures and protocols and notify the client of customer requested exceptions; and as necessary, assist in developing site-specific Planning Strategies with Senior Leadership.  You will be a Subject Matter Expert in the client's workplace program and the use of utilization data to drive solutions that increase the productivity.  You will be a leader in Occupancy Planning and account team, modelling superior client relationship management and strategic thinking. 

You’ll need to have a great knowledge in Corporate Real Estate and Workplace Strategy. In this role, you will interact with organizational leadership, identifying requirements, preparing and updating project status reports on actual seat demand versus projected seat demand at the building, neighborhood, and campus level; reporting out on the current supply and capacity, and forecast inventory changes as required. You’ll be charged with 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.

Onsite : Monday-Friday in Beaverton, OR

Key Responsibilities

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 communication channels will exist with:

Corporate Real Estate to review and resolve planning forecast requirements, concerns and issues

Space data management, upkeep and reporting from the established CAFM system

Mentor and Coach for Junior Space Planners

Ability to think and speak strategically to both internal stakeholders and client

Drive solutions, standards, while always looking for new ways to improve the current process

Be a SME for space planning, workplace strategy, and design standards

Strong and Trusted partnership with Business Unit leadership to collect headcount forecasts and resolve headcount forecast discrepancies between leadership's numbers and those collected at the group level

Strategic Planning in execution of long-term strategy into near term deliverables

Project management to review planning strategies that drive construction projects and support implementation of these projects;

Move coordination and business relationship teams to review and approve moves, develop high-level migration plans and conduct facility audits;

Other members of the occupancy planning team to ensure cross campus/portfolio strategy plans are developed

Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

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.

Dynamic and technologically savvy and able to use advanced skills in Microsoft Excel (pivot table, vlook-up, cell calculations), and AutoCAD (basic test-fits and square foot calculations).

Excellent communication skills are important – both written and spoken

Ability to work independently, multi-task, and manage time to meet deadlines.

Strong prioritization, organization and flexibility

Strong interpersonal skills with an ability to interact with executive level external and internal clients

Qualifications

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. 

Experience in space/occupancy planning at a strategic level, plus experience with interior office renovations is highly desirable.

CAFM system experience also highly desirable.

Inspire - Inspire others, creates vision and strategy, energizes others

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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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