Division President

JLL; Greater London; On-site; GBP 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A prominent real estate and project management firm is seeking a Divisional President to lead and inspire a diverse team across EMEA. This role focuses on promoting the brand, ensuring exceptional client experiences, and achieving financial performance through innovative solutions in workplace management. Ideal candidates will possess deep expertise in workplace management, strategic thinking, and a proven track record of business growth. This full-time position is based in London with extensive travel requirements.

Qualifications

• Deep professional experience and expertise within workplace management.
• Demonstrated ability to shape a vision, set aspirational goals, and develop strategy.
• Track record of profitably growing a business line.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a team across multiple countries in EMEA.
• Build and maintain a broad network to identify new business opportunities.
• Ensure alignment of Account Division plans with client objectives.

Skills

Workplace management expertise

Strategic thinking

Entrepreneurial spirit

Financial acumen

Job description

Job Description

JLL provides a full range of real estate project development services and facilities solutions for corporate clients across EMEA. We help our clients plan find finance buy lease sell construct optimize manage and maintain their portfolios across the region using a One JLL approach. Our professionals have deep technical expertise and market knowledge and are armed with the most innovative data‑driven analytics and business intelligence in the industry.

Position Summary

The Divisional President will lead and inspire a team of professionals across multiple countries in EMEA in becoming the preeminent provider in the workplace. This individual will promote JLL’s brand purpose culture and values while focusing on patient and family experience mitigating risk and driving financial performance for our clients through real estate project and development services and facilities solutions. This position will report to the CEO of our EMEA Work Dynamics business.

Location: London based or any other EMEA city with expected travel.

Key Priorities

• Lead in disrupting the corporate real estate market within the sectors under management through the use of technology
• Win new clients while retaining and expanding existing clients
• Drive profitable growth
• Attract, develop and retain the best and most diverse talent in the industry
• Maintain our core values as a differentiator and demonstrate our leadership behaviours
• Achieve the ambitions of our clients and employees

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain a broad network within the sectors to identify new business growth opportunities
• Lead and partner with the Account Management and Sales teams to identify new business and expand existing client portfolio
• Leveraging industry knowledge and client input to deliver a coherent comprehensive strategy to capture the benefits and value of the products/offerings
• Develop and deliver scalable solutions to improve customer experience that can be applied broadly to clients and JLL businesses
• Establish and advance client relationships for sector corporate clients
• Ensure the vision and strategy of the Account Division plans are implemented and align with client objectives and interests
• Develop and execute solutions to position JLL as the leading outsourcing option in the market
• Build, lead and develop a high‑performing diverse and integrated team who is committed to delivering exceptional client results

Leadership Capabilities

• Transformational mindset demonstrates an entrepreneurial spirit; leads change with energy and resilience to propel the business forward; has the courage to make difficult decisions and take calculated risks; adjusts style to accommodate individuals and the various phases of growth
• Innovative inquisitive challenges status quo thinks outside the box
• Strategic and critical thinking exhibits strong levels of insight and intellectual curiosity
• Commercially astute – quickly recognizes the different levers to pull to drive growth and increase productivity
• Passion to win wakes up every day thinking about how to engage new clients and beat the competition
• Empathetic leadership takes a genuine interest in the people around them what makes them tick what inspires them and the way they feel
• Exemplary executive presence has the gravitas and sophistication to appropriately command the room
• Cultural alignment – unwavering ethical standards; drives excellence and innately

Requirements

• Deep professional experience and expertise within workplace management
• Demonstrated ability to shape a vision set aspirational goals develop and implement a strategy and operating plan
• Track record of profitably growing a business line or function
• Financially astute commercial oriented strong financial acumen

Location: On‑site London GBR.

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Employment Type: Full‑Time

Experience: years

Vacancy: 1