Senior Occupancy Planner

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Texas.

📋 Description

• Cultivate partnerships with the client’s Real Estate Organization and end users to develop innovative space solutions.

• Consistently deliver planning services and manage as well as report occupancy data within workplace programs and strategy.

• Convert data into actionable insights and assist with scenario planning.

• Align site-specific strategies with overarching enterprise portfolio priorities.

• Create occupancy plans and coordinate regional, site, and group-level relocations.

• Address planning issues identified during client planning sessions.

• Ensure that planning complies with corporate guidelines and optimizes space utilization.

• Advise, educate, and enforce space policies, standards, procedures, and protocols.

• Inform the client of customer-requested exceptions and support site-specific planning strategies.

• Act as a subject matter expert in the client’s workplace program and utilize data to drive productivity-enhancing solutions.

• Guide the Occupancy Planning and account team through effective client relationship management and strategic thinking.

• Flexibly respond to evolving business needs and new requirements.

• Develop business programming, restack programs, allocation plans, adjacency diagrams, test fits, migration plans, and move sequencing.

• Produce multiple solution options for intricate occupancy challenges, including M&A, rapid growth, consolidations, and economic disruptions.

• Compile and analyze data from diverse sources.

• Manage allocations and ensure data accuracy using a CAFM/IWMS database.

• Collaborate with the Space Data Insights Team.

⛳️ Requirements

• 5 to 7 years of experience in strategic occupancy or space planning, interior office planning, or move/project management within a corporate real estate environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in real estate, Finance, Architecture, Design, Construction Management, or a related field is preferred.

• Proficient in AutoCAD for developing test fit options; intermediate to advanced proficiency is preferred.

• Proficient in a CAFM/IWMS database such as FMS, Manhattan, Tririga, Archibus, or similar; intermediate to advanced proficiency is preferred.

• Advanced proficiency in MS Office, including Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.

• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Acrobat.

• Ability to master client-specific programs.

• Self-driven and capable of working independently as well as within a team.

• Strong relationship-building skills and effective interaction with business partners.

• Comfortable with frequent change and able to adapt to shifting priorities.

• Working knowledge of occupancy utilization and office design principles and trends, including mobile or collaborative workplaces is preferred.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Ability to deliver difficult messages tactfully and tailor information for the audience.

• Capacity to lead through influence.

• Expert-level data analytical skills with the ability to articulate narratives through data.

• Strong attention to detail and accuracy, particularly regarding numbers and spatial creativity.

• Must be based in the USA.

• Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

🏝️ Benefits

• 401(k) plan with matching contributions from the company.

• 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.

• Supportive culture and a comprehensive benefits package prioritizing mental, physical, and emotional health.

• Reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.