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About the Role
As an Occupancy Planning Lead at JLL, you'll direct our team supporting a major technology client, serving as the trusted advisor for all occupancy planning services. This role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution—you'll leverage industry expertise and best practices to deliver exceptional outcomes while providing thought leadership that shapes how our clients optimize their real estate portfolios. Your expertise will drive space utilization strategies, sequencing complex moves, and resolving planning challenges that align with broader business goals.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain strategic relationships with client leadership and internal JLL teams, serving as the primary point of contact for occupancy planning initiatives while fostering coordination across multiple business units.
- Develop comprehensive occupancy plans and move sequences that maximize space utilization, align with client objectives, and balance competing priorities across the portfolio.
- Analyze complex real estate data using Excel (pivot tables, XLOOKUP, advanced calculations) and AI-powered tools to uncover insights, create compelling narratives, and inform strategic decision-making.
- Collaborate with leadership teams to recommend space policies, develop site strategies, and provide expert guidance on workplace optimization and portfolio planning.
- Lead and mentor your team through ambiguous situations, providing clear direction, establishing expectations, and ensuring timely execution of deliverables with measurable outcomes.
- Create persuasive presentations and executive-level communications that translate technical data and floor plans into actionable recommendations for diverse audiences.
- Champion innovation by leveraging generative AI tools to streamline research, enhance productivity, and improve the quality of client deliverables while applying critical thinking.
- Navigate organizational change with resilience and strategic acumen, making risk-informed decisions that drive transformation and sustainable improvements.
Requirements
- 5–7 years of experience in occupancy planning at a strategic level, interior office planning, or corporate real estate data analytics.
- Exceptional communication abilities including active listening, persuasive presentation skills, and capacity to engage effectively from administrative to executive levels.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel proficiency with expertise in pivot tables, XLOOKUP, complex calculations, and floor plan interpretation.
- Proven stakeholder management skills with ability to build critical relationships, coordinate across JLL businesses, and diplomatically balance competing priorities.
- Strong bias toward transformation and execution, coupled with structured problem-solving approach and commercially astute perspective.
- Demonstrated project management capabilities including effective structuring, staffing, and management with clarity of expectations and corrective action when needed.
- High perseverance and resourcefulness with ability to work effectively in ambiguous situations while maintaining unwavering ethical standards.
- Influencing and collaborative leadership style that inspires action, operates with urgency, and drives teams toward common vision.
- Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Skills
- Occupancy planning
- Strategic planning
- Interior office planning
- Corporate real estate data analytics
- Communication
- Active listening
- Persuasive presentation
- Stakeholder management
- Microsoft Excel
- Pivot tables
- XLOOKUP
- Complex calculations
- Floor plan interpretation
- Project management
- Problem-solving
- AI tools
- Generative AI
- Change management
Location
- Chandler, AZ
- Austin, TX
Work Type
- Onsite
Experience Level
- 5-7 years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Management, Architecture, Design, Real Estate, Data Analytics, or related field
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.
- 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 fully 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.