Vice President, Office Leasing Advisory: JLL in Pune

Peegee; Pune District; On-site; INR 6,000,000 - 9,000,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) in Pune seeks a Vice President of Office Leasing Advisory to lead business development and transaction advisory for corporate occupiers and developers.

The role focuses on Mumbai market transactions, with a Pune base, and involves mentoring a team, meeting targets, and shaping strategies across geographies. 40-hour weeks, mostly client meetings and site inspections, with travel between Pune and Mumbai.

Qualifications

• Twelve to fifteen years in commercial leasing or transaction advisory.
• MBA or an MBA/RICS-track qualification.

Responsibilities

• Engage proactively in business development with corporate occupiers, developers and CRE heads.
• Provide advisory services to conclude commercial office transactions, mainly in Mumbai market.
• Deliver market intelligence, cash flow analyses and option sourcing with ensuring timely deliverables.

Education

MBA or equivalent

Job description

Vice President, Office Leasing Advisory: JLL in Pune

JLL (Jones Lang LaSalle) Pune, Maharashtra Start Date 09/14/2026

The posting in detail

Business development: engage proactively through focused development, networking and the existing relationships of other business units, with corporate and growth‑sector office occupiers the focus; identify and nurture the existing key corporate relationships and build new ones with builders and with corporate real‑estate heads, CFOs and administration heads; prepare marketing materials, presentations and proposals; and develop and execute parallel strategies for business development in the responsible geography. Transaction management: provide advisory services to conclude commercial office transactions, predominantly in the Mumbai market, including information memorandums, financial analysis, market intelligence and inputs from legal consultants; deliver the fee‑generating advisory assignments the Markets team offers, lease‑versus‑buy analysis, off‑balance‑sheet REIT strategies, regional asset allocation and market‑entry strategy; assess client requirements and execute the transaction through option sourcing, client presentations, site inspections, pricing inputs, negotiation and legal, and closure, with comprehensive market coverage and suitable options proposed; ensure the timeliness and accuracy of deliverables such as cash flows and presentations, with strong financial skills and client and programme management for sale and lease transactions, coordination with offshore teams and clients, and the ability to run project meetings, follow‑ups and closures independently; own customer satisfaction through delivery and service‑quality norms, with engagement by call, meeting, site visit, presentation, follow‑up and proposal, and governance through execution; and mentor and guide the team constantly, meeting individual and team targets.

Corporate occupiers, developers and CRE heads

The vice president builds the relationships that produce office transactions.

What JLL asks for

The posting states neither qualification nor years; a vice president in office leasing advisory at a global firm usually has twelve to fifteen years in commercial leasing or transaction advisory, an MBA or a RICS‑track qualification, a record of closures measured in square feet and fees, and a network among Mumbai's and Pune's occupiers and developers that the interview will test by name. The advisory lines, lease‑versus‑buy and REIT strategy, ask for financial modelling as well as brokerage; the brokerage guide describes the residential end of the same market and why its conventions differ by city, which a leasing professional moving between Mumbai and Pune learns first.

The site, the shift and the hours

Based in Pune with the transaction focus on Mumbai, 40 scheduled hours a week, which is the shortest scheduled week on this board and reflects a role whose hours are set by client meetings and site inspections rather than a shift; a vice president spends the week between Pune's Kharadi and Hinjewadi office parks and Mumbai's Bandra Kurla Complex and Lower Parel, and the Mumbai‑Pune Expressway is the commute. The territory's split, the team's size and the incentive structure are the first call's questions.

Questions to ask the recruiter about this posting

How the territory splits between Pune and Mumbai and how many days a week are in each. The team's size and the mentoring the posting names. The incentive structure and the base's share, since the posting states neither. The pipeline the role inherits and the closures expected in the first year. The advisory assignments' share of the fees. The relationships with builders the firm already holds in the territory. The offshore teams the posting mentions coordinating with. The reporting line and the promotion path to senior vice president. The travel budget and whether a car is provided for the Expressway. And whether the firm supports a relocation to Pune or expects a Mumbai base.

Where leasing and transaction roles sit in India's property sector

Office and retail leasing advisory is the front end of commercial real estate: representing landlords in letting space and occupiers in taking it, from the market survey and the shortlist to the term sheet, the fit‑out and the lease. Firms such as JLL run leasing teams in every Indian metro, and the roles run from analyst and manager to director and vice president, paid on a base plus a share of the fees on deals closed. The PG versus flats guide and the brokerage guide describe the residential end of the same market from the seeker's side, and a leasing professional who has read them understands the tenant's arithmetic better than most.

What the posting does not say about pay, and how to read it

Leasing postings state the market, the seniority and the years and never the variable component, which is the larger part at director level; this page invents none. Ask the recruiter for the base range and the incentive structure at the first call, and read the posting for the market it covers, since a Pune office‑leasing director and a Hyderabad retail‑services manager work different markets with different fee pools. The season guide explains, for the residential market, the calendar a leasing professional's year also follows.

The interview, in practice

Leasing interviews are market tests. The screening confirms the deals closed by area and value and the clients represented; the market round, with the city's leasing head, asks for the micro‑markets by rent band, vacancy and pipeline from memory, the three largest transactions of the last quarter and who acted on them, and the candidate's own relationships with occupiers, landlords and brands. A pitch exercise follows, a landlord with a vacant floor or a brand entering the city, with the candidate presenting a strategy and a term sheet; the assessors listen for the numbers and for what the candidate does not know and says so. The final round with the business head is about targets, the incentive structure and the candidate's book, and a reference check goes to a client as well as an employer. MBA or graduate with a network in the city's brands or occupiers is the profile; a candidate moving city is asked how long the network will take to rebuild, and the honest answer is a year.

What a leasing professional reads on PeeGee.in

A leasing professional reads the site's locality pages as a market: the September 2026 owner‑listing bands by locality in the city cost guides, the operators' plan ranges in the owner‑versus‑operator guide, the vacancy month in the occupancy‑planning guide, the brokerage conventions by city in the brokerage guide. The residential rental market described in those pages is the one her occupier clients' employees live in, and the tenant‑rights guide and the Model Tenancy Act guide are the residential side of the lease law she negotiates commercially.

Progression from this role

From a leasing manager's chair the path runs to senior manager, associate director, director, senior director and business head over twelve to fifteen years, on deals closed and clients retained; the incentive component grows at each step and the base becomes the smaller part. The credentials that help are an MBA, a RICS or similar qualification and, in retail, a network of brands; the brokerage guide explains the residential end of the same market and why the conventions differ by city, which a leasing professional moving between markets learns first.

Living near the site: PG options in Pune

A vice president lives in a flat, and the PG market is the fortnight's answer while the flat is found: the short‑stay Pune page lists the houses that take a fortnight, Kharadi ran ₹4,500–17,000 across 18 owner price points in September 2026 and Viman Nagar ₹4,000–26,000 across 21 for the airport side a Mumbai‑facing role uses, and Baner ₹3,500–20,000 across 18 for the Expressway side. The Pune cost guide explains why Pune's deposits are a month lower than Mumbai's, the PG versus serviced apartment guide works the first quarter on a relocation package, and the couples guide covers a family move. Start from the Pune PG hub , the ladies’ PG page for Pune , the working men’s page , the short‑stay page and the under‑₹5,000 page , and read the city cost guide for the September 2026 owner‑listing bands by locality before setting a budget.

Frequently asked questions

What does the JLL vice president office leasing advisory job in Pune involve? Business development among corporate occupiers, developers and CRE heads, and transaction management to closure, predominantly in the Mumbai market: information memorandums, financial analysis, option sourcing, inspections, pricing, negotiation and legal, plus fee‑generating advisory such as lease‑versus‑buy and REIT strategy, with a team mentored and targets met.

What experience is expected? The posting states none; a vice president at this level usually has twelve to fifteen years in commercial leasing or transaction advisory with an MBA or similar and a record of closures.

Why is it based in Pune with a Mumbai focus? The board lists Pune; the text says the transaction work will predominantly focus on the Mumbai market. Ask the recruiter how the territory is split.

What are the hours? A 40-hour scheduled week, the shortest on this board, set by client meetings and site inspections rather than a shift.

Sources and further reading

• JLL careers — Vice President, Office Leasing Advisory, Pune (REQ530382)
• JLL India
• JLL careers, India postings

Posting details on this page were read from the JLL Workday careers site on 17 September 2026 (requisition REQ530382); the employer’s posting governs and may close without notice. Rent figures, where quoted, follow the September 2026 owner‑listing bands on the linked locality pages.

JLL's postings also carry a candidate privacy notice and a statement that the firm is an equal‑opportunity employer that provides reasonable accommodations to candidates with disabilities on request, and the accessibility guide explains what that means for a candidate who needs one at the interview or on the site.