About the Role
The Account Executive is responsible for developing and implementing comprehensive account plans to ensure client satisfaction and long-term partnerships. This role requires anticipating client needs, delivering exceptional results, and building high-performing teams to achieve operational excellence, sustainable revenue growth, and profitability.
Responsibilities
- Executes the vision and strategy of the account plan, ensuring client objectives and interests are consistently met and exceeded.
- Acts as a Strategic Partner by connecting teams across regions and services, driving fundamental mindset and bringing strategic direction to complex client relationships.
- Demonstrates Proactive Leadership by anticipating client needs and positioning teams for success.
- Develops, manages, and implements Voice of the Customer (VOC) programs to gain client input and ensure strategic alignment.
- Responds to client issues with expedient, professional solutions that strengthen long-term partnerships.
- Maintains Strategic Accountability by staying informed on major work initiatives without micromanaging.
- Ensures the hiring of the best qualified candidates for all roles on the account.
- Builds actionable and measurable career development plans for all direct reports.
- Drives Best Practices on account while bringing in external speakers and off-account experts to enhance team capabilities.
- Updates Metro Plans opportunistically.
- Embodies the firm's values and core behaviors of collaboration, integrity, and excellence.
- Advances diversity and inclusion priorities through strategic talent moves.
- Identifies and grooms successors to key roles.
- Presents annual account plans including key objectives, client satisfaction results, value-add activity summaries, and targeted expansion strategies.
- Proactively manages account budgets while identifying opportunities to generate additional revenue.
- Retains all current business lines and expands the book of business beyond existing product lines or geography.
- Mitigates organizational risk by maintaining A/R below 60 days payable.
- Showcases Excellence by bringing leading practices and innovations from the account to the broader organization.
- Leverages Relationships to bring flexibility and expertise to the entire team, demonstrating best-in-class service delivery.
- Identifies opportunities within professional networks to generate additional revenue, engaging cross-functional resources effectively.
- Demonstrates Courage by challenging the status quo on both client and internal sides to drive continuous improvement.
- Serves as internal reference for service delivery excellence that expands Jones Lang LaSalle's market presence.
Requirements
- 10+ years of Facility Management and Commercial Real Estate executive leadership experience.
- Proven capabilities developing outsourced Integrated Facility Management solutions for Fortune 500 companies.
- Extensive experience hiring, training, and retaining large teams (100+) in client service environments.
- Demonstrated budget management experience with strategic financial oversight.
- Bachelor's degree with broad business experience; MBA or post-graduate studies preferred.
- Experience operating effectively in complex, large, heavily matrixed organizations.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Skills
- Strategic Leadership
- Strategic Partnership Mindset
- Proactive Vision
- Operational Excellence
- Balanced Accountability
- Best Practice Driver
- Courageous Leadership
- Relationship Management
- Flexible Relationship Approach
- Excellence Showcase
- Commercial astuteness
- Business Acumen
- Financially astute
- Results-driven
- Customer behaviors and industry trend analysis
- Transformational leadership capabilities
Location
- Remote – Atlanta, GA
- Remote – Charlotte, NC
- Remote – Chicago, IL
- Remote – Dallas, TX
- Remote – Houston, TX
- Remote – New York, NY
- Remote – Raleigh, NC
- Remote – Richmond, VA
- Remote – Washington, DC
Work Type
- Remote
Experience Level
- 10+ years of executive leadership experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA or post-graduate studies preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $250,000.00 – $275,000.00 USD per year
Benefits
- 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
- Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay
About the Company
- JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way.
- Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients.
- We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong.
- Whether you’ve got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you’re looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.
- 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.
- At JLL, we harness the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to efficiently accelerate meaningful connections between candidates and opportunities.
- Jones Lang LaSalle (JLL), together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading global provider of real estate and investment management services.
- We take our responsibility to protect the personal information provided to us seriously.
- Generally the personal information we collect from you are for the purposes of processing in connection with JLL’s recruitment process.
- We endeavour to keep your personal information secure with appropriate level of security and keep for as long as we need it for legitimate business or legal reasons.
- We will then delete it safely and securely.
- For more information about how JLL processes your personal data, please view our Candidate Privacy Statement.
- For additional details please see our career site pages for each country.
Equal Opportunity
- For candidates in the United States, please see a full copy of our Equal Employment Opportunity policy here.
- Jones Lang LaSalle (“JLL”) is an Equal Opportunity Employer and is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities.
- If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process – including the online application and/or overall selection process – you may email us at HRSCLeaves@jll.com.
- This email is only to request an accommodation.
- Please direct any other general recruiting inquiries to our Contact Us page > I want to work for JLL.
- Pursuant to the Arizona Civil Rights Act, criminal convictions are not an absolute bar to employment.
- Pursuant to Illinois Law, applicants are not obligated to disclose sealed or expunged records of conviction or arrest.
- Pursuant to Columbia, SC ordinance, this position is subject to a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities.
- Only job-related convictions will be considered and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.
- California Residents only
- If you are a California resident as defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) please view our Supplemental Privacy Statement which describes your rights and disclosures about your personal information.
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- Pursuant to the Los Angeles Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance, JLL will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with Criminal Histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles’ Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance.
- Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
