Occupancy Planner

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We are looking for an Occupancy Planner to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team in the broader Wichita / McPherson, KS area. This is an on-site position requiring someone to be on-site 5 days a week.

As Occupancy Planner, you will be responsible for tracking, analyzing, and updating space data and using this information to develop scenario and occupancy plans for our client's portfolio in a designated region.

Fostering relationships

You’ll foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations. Simultaneously, ensuring coordination and collaboration among various business units, especially facility management, will be crucial as you aim to get accurate growth projections. Planning strategies that drive construction projects and support their implementation will demand your constant attention, and so will regular facility audits.

Day-to-day deliverables would include monthly reporting, periodic data audits, tracking and managing utilization data and trends, as well as gathering space and adjacency requirements, updating space layouts, developing space planning and block diagrams.

Managing spaces

Planning and managing portfolios, as well as maximizing space, will be your major focus areas while you assist clients in their migration plans, group, and individual moves. This will involve using various forms qualitive and quantitative data to understand supply and demand.

Reporting

Major requirements for you 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, as well as track and report actual seat demand at the group level.

Sounds like you? To apply, you need to be:

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), and understand floorplans. Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and the ability to consolidate data and floor plans into PowerPoint Presentations for clients will be highly valuable for the job.

A communication champion

Excellent communication skills are important – both written and spoken. An individual with strong interpersonal skills, able to understand complex ideas and communicate them to others, and an ability to interact with executive-level external and internal clients will be successful in the role. You’ll be effective in your role by learning to ask the right questions to understand the underlying needs of our clients.

Dynamic

Thinking strategically, simplifying the complex, seeing the big picture, and driving results are few of the basic requirements of the job. Moreover, you should thrive on change with an appetite for risks and be proactive and innovative with solutions. We would love your intellectual curiosity towards digital drive, hunger for learning, and urge to meet deadlines.

Below are the skills and experience that we are looking for:

Work experience in occupancy or space planning for corporate clients; or interior office planning, furniture planning/management, move/project management, or related Facilities function in a corporate real estate setting

A Bachelor’s Degree is preferred

Literacy in reading and interpreting floor plans

A working knowledge of occupancy utilization, office design principles and trends such as the mobile or collaborative workplace

Attentive to detail and accuracy - particularly numbers and spatial creativity

Location:

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

Flexible and Remote Work Arrangements may be available

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