Occupancy Planning Manager & Lead

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We are looking for a Manager to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team. This role is onsite in Atlanta, Georgia.

About JLL -

We’re JLL - a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We shape the future of real estate for a better world by using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people, and our communities. As a Fortune 500 company, we help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. We have operations in over 80 countries and a global workforce of over 92,000 individuals.  We believe a diverse and inclusive culture is one where everyone succeeds. That’s why we’re committed to creating an environment where we all feel welcomed, valued, and empowered to achieve our full potential.

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job.  But we’ll let you in on a secret: there’s no such thing as a “perfect” candidate.  JLL is a place where everyone can grow no matter how they identify or what background they bring with them. If you’re a leader of any level or experience and this job description resonates with you, let’s talk. 

What this job involves –

This position demands excellence in client relationship management and strategic vision, along with proven leadership experience in Occupancy Planning. This Manager will ensure our clients receive JLL's premier Occupancy Planning & Management solutions, products, and tools that align with industry best practices.

Key responsibilities include:

• Leading account-level delivery of comprehensive Occupancy Planning and Management services

• Contributing valuable industry insights and thought leadership to enhance client outcomes

• Serving as a trusted advisor to clients, Account Directors, and internal teams

• Providing oversight of the account's move management operations

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

This role requires a strategic thinker with exceptional analytical abilities. You'll need meticulous attention to detail, particularly with numerical data and creative spatial solutions.

Your primary focus will be portfolio planning and management, space optimization, and supporting clients through migration initiatives—from individual relocations to group moves. You'll be responsible for reviewing, preparing, and updating project status reports that compare actual versus projected seat demand, analyze current supply and capacity metrics, and forecast inventory fluctuations.

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), 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.

Reporting

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

Sounds like you? To apply, you need:

• 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.  

  • Strong cultural alignment: unwavering ethical standards; drives excellence and innately collaborative  

  • 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  

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

• Project Management Skills: Knows how to effectively structure, staff and manage occupancy planning 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. 

• 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

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

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