Senior Director, Occupancy Planning
Austin, TX 
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Posted 11 days ago
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Director, Occupancy Planning to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team. This is a hybrid position requiring someone to be on-site at least 3 days a week.

About the role:
The Occupancy Planning Director will play a crucial role in assuring delivery of JLL best practices via Occupancy Planning & Management products, solutions, and tools to our real estate clients. Serve as an account leader for the consistent delivery of Occupancy Planning and Management. Bring best practices, industry insight and thought leadership to account. Act as a trusted advisor to client, Account Director, and team.

Foster relationships:
Great relationship building skills, client focus and team leadership.
You'll foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations. Simultaneously, ensuring coordination and collaboration among various JLL businesses.

Dynamic:
Ability to go above and beyond to help with any tasks that might come your way and solve problems effectively. Thinking strategically, simplifying the complex, seeing the big picture, and driving results are a few of the basic requirements of the job. You should thrive on change with an appetite for risks, be proactive and innovative with solutions. A desire to be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for key systems / processes and client deliverables. Manage a team, train and mentor as needed.

Managing spaces:
Attentive to detail and accuracy - particularly numbers and spatial creativity. Leading the planning and managing of portfolios, as well as optimizing space will be your major focus areas while you assist clients in their migration plans, group, and individual moves. This will involve reviewing, preparing, and updating project status reports on actual versus projected seat demand, reporting on the current supply and capacity, and forecasting inventory changes.

Communication champion:
Excellent written and verbal communication skills; including active listening, verbal, written and visual communication and the ability to engage at all levels of leadership from administrative to executive level. Ability to understand complex ideas and communicate them to others on the account and client.

Tech-savvy:
You have critical thinking skill sets and can easily tell a story through data. You will be successful on the job if you have skills in Microsoft Excel (pivot table, vlook-up, cell calculations), understanding floor plans and familiarity with IWMS systems. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to interpret and consolidate data and floor plans into PowerPoint Presentations for clients will be highly valuable for the job.

Reporting:
Ability to create accurate and credible planning reports to support Corporate Real Estate decision making including space, demand and utilization tracking.

Qualifications:
Character with high perseverance and resourcefulness required to keep driving and finding ways to get the required steps done.

Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations. Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere.

Commercially and financially astute


Leadership Skills:
A leader with exceptional communication skills coupled with excellent active listening skills. Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences. Presentation skills to promote ideas and proposals persuasively. Establish and maintain strong relationships on all levels of organization. We are looking for a team leader who brings out the best in their teams and exhibits managerial courage when needed.
Strategic in nature, with a strong bias towards transformation and execution

Inspirational Leader, stimulates action with a balanced leadership style of control and influence

Operates with a sense of urgency

Decisive - willing to take risks

Acts as an ambassador for JLL, adopting and maintaining the firm's core values of Teamwork, Ethics and Excellence


Influencing and Teamwork:
Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal. Must be a team player and team leader, able to work collaboratively with and through others.

Project Management Skills:
Knows how to effectively structure staff and manage projects and teams to insure there is clarity of expectation, timely execution, corrective action when needed and successful outcomes. Strong organizational and planning skills.

Analytical Skills:
Has a structured approach to problem solving with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. Process oriented and drives to fix the ultimate root causes to drive sustainable change.
JLL Is an Equal Opportunity Employer JLL is committed to developing and maintaining a diverse workforce. JLL strongly believes in equal opportunity extended to all individuals in all aspects of the employment relationship, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, discipline, layoff, recall and termination without regard to race, color, religion, belief, creed, age, sex, pregnancy or maternity (including childbirth and related conditions), family responsibility (e.g. child care, elder care), nationality, ethnic or national origin or ancestry, citizenship, marital status, civil partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, transgender status, veteran’s status, genetic information, trade union membership, social position, political view or status as a qualified individual with a disability, protected leave status or any other protected characteristic in accordance with applicable law. The company also endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified employees and applicants with disabilities unless the accommodations would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business and ensures that employment decisions are based only on valid job requirements.

 

Job Summary
Company
JLL
Start Date
As soon as possible
Employment Term and Type
Regular, Full Time
Required Experience
Open
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