Senior Occupancy Planner

Senior Occupancy Planner

Requirements

• Proactive
• Tech-savvy
• Excellent communication skills—both written and spoken
• Experience in building strong client relationships, anticipating needs, adapting to changing priorities
• Ability to seamlessly transition between strategic oversight and hands-on execution
• Ability to lead through influence
• Experience in utilization data analysis; gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data to provide data-driven recommendations
• Understands desk-sharing concepts and methodologies
• Expert-level data analytical skills and ability to articulate stories through data
• Attentive to detail and accuracy – particularly numbers and spatial creativity
• Highly organized and demonstrates a high level of performance in project budgeting and scheduling

Responsibilities

• Providing strategic occupancy planning expertise
• Managing the development of occupancy plans
• Sequencing group-level and individual moves
• Resolving planning issues identified during client planning sessions
• Ensuring the alignment of planning with corporate guidelines
• Recommending, educating, and enforcing space policies/standards, procedures, and protocols
• Notifying the client of customer-requested exceptions
• Assisting in developing site-specific Planning Strategies with Senior Leadership
• Identifying space requirements and preparing and updating project status reports on actual versus projected seat demand at the building level
• Reporting on current supply and capacity, forecasting inventory changes as required, and reconciling discrepancies from top-down projections

Preferred Qualifications

• A working knowledge of occupancy utilization, office design principles, and trends such as the mobile or collaborative workplace is preferred
• A Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate, Finance, Architecture, Design, Construction Management, or a related field is preferred