Occupancy Planner

Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated; Barcelona; On-site; EUR 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL in Barcelona is seeking an Occupancy Planner to join the Occupancy Planning and Management team. You will track, analyze, and update space data to develop scenario and occupancy plans for our client's portfolio in the designated region.

The role requires strong Excel skills, the ability to interpret floor plans, and the capacity to present data in PowerPoint. You''ll collaborate across facility management and other business units to optimize space and support migration plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree preferred in related field.
• Experience with space planning for corporate clients.
• Strong data analysis and reporting skills.
• Ability to interpret floor plans and layouts.
• Excellent communication and project management.

Responsibilities

• Track, analyse and update space data.
• Develop occupancy plans for client portfolio.
• Produce monthly reporting and data audits.
• Coordinate with facility management and other units.
• Support migration plans and space layouts.

Skills

Floor plans literacy

Occupancy utilization

Office design principles

Data storytelling

Interpersonal skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

We are looking for an Occupancy Planner, to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team.

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

As Occupancy Planner, you will be responsible for tracking, analysing, and updating space data and using this information to develop scenario and occupancy plans for our client's portfolio in a designated region.

Fostering relationships

You'll foster critical relationships between various individuals and organizations. Simultaneously, ensuring coordination and collaboration among various business units, especially facility management, will be crucial as you aim to get accurate growth projections. Planning strategies that drive construction projects and support their implementation will demand your constant attention, and so will regular facility audits.

Day-to-day deliverables

Day-to-day deliverables would include monthly reporting, periodic data audits, tracking and managing utilization data and trends, as well as gathering space and adjacency requirements, updating space layouts, developing space planning and block diagrams.

Managing spaces

Planning and managing portfolios, as well as maximizing space, will be your major focus areas while you assist clients in their migration plans, group, and individual moves. This will involve using various forms qualitative and quantitative data to understand supply and demand.

Reporting

Major requirements for you will be to get familiar with space utilization methods and the presentation of utilization data. You'll work closely with clients to reconcile discrepancies from top-down projections, as well as track and report actual seat demand at the group level.

Sounds like you? To apply, you need to be:

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.

A communication champion

Excellent communication skills are important – both written and spoken. An individual with strong interpersonal skills, able to understand complex ideas and communicate them to others, and an ability to interact with executive-level external and internal clients will be successful in the role. You'll be effective in your role by learning to ask the right questions to understand the underlying needs of our clients.

Dynamic

Thinking strategically, simplifying the complex, seeing the big picture, and driving results are few of the basic requirements of the job. Moreover, you should thrive on change with an appetite for risks and be proactive and innovative with solutions. We would love your intellectual curiosity towards digital drive, hunger for learning, and urge to meet deadlines.

Below are the skills and experience that we are looking for

• Literacy in reading and interpreting floor plans
• A working knowledge of occupancy utilization, office design principles and trends such as the mobile or collaborative workplace
• Attentive to detail and accuracy - particularly numbers and spatial creativity
• Work experience in occupancy or space planning for corporate clients; or interior office planning, furniture planning/management, move/project management, or related Facilities function in a corporate real estate setting
• A Bachelor's Degree is preferred

What you can expect from us

At JLL, we make sure that you become the best version of yourself by helping you realize your full potential in an entrepreneurial and inclusive work environment.

Our Total Rewards program reflects our commitment to helping you achieve your career ambitions, recognizing your contributions, investing in your well-being, and providing competitive benefits and pay.

We can't wait to see where your ambitions take you at JLL.