Manager, Occupancy Planning and Management

JLL; Singapore; On-site; SGD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

JLL is seeking a Manager to lead the Occupancy Planning and Management team. You will act as an account leader, delivering best practices, insights, and client-facing SME guidance.

You will manage a team, foster strong client relationships, and drive strategic planning and reporting to optimize space and portfolio performance. The role requires strong communication, problem-solving, and data storytelling skills, with hands-on experience in Excel and PowerPoint to translate data into compelling

Qualifications

• Strong relationship building with clients and stakeholders.
• Ability to lead teams and manage multiple workstreams.
• Strategic thinker who can simplify complex scenarios.
• Excellent communication across organizational levels.
• Proven capability to deliver data-driven planning and reporting.

Responsibilities

• Lead occupancy planning and management projects for real estate clients.
• Serve as account leader, delivering best practices, insights and SME guidance.
• Manage a team, mentor junior staff and ensure timely delivery.
• Review status reports, forecast space demand and utilization.
• Convey complex data through clear PowerPoint presentations to clients.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Client focus

Team management

Strategic thinking

Problem solving

Data storytelling

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Office Suite

Job description

JLL empowers you to shape a brighter way .

Our people at JLL are shaping the future of real estate for a better world by combining world class services, advisory and technology for our clients. We are committed to hiring the best, most talented people and empowering them to thrive, grow meaningful careers and to find a place where they belong. Whether you've got deep experience in commercial real estate, skilled trades or technology, or you're looking to apply your relevant experience to a new industry, join our team as we help shape a brighter way forward.

We are looking for a Manager to join our Occupancy Planning and Management team

The Manager will play a crucial role in assuring delivery of JLL best practices via Occupancy Planning & Management products, solutions, and tools to our real estate clients. Serve as an account leader for delivery of Occupancy Planning and Management. Bring best practices, industry insight and thought leadership to account. Act as a trusted advisor to client, Account Director, and team.

Foster relationships

Great relationship building skills, client focus and team leadership. You'll foster critical relationships between various individuals and organisations. Simultaneously, ensuring coordination and collaboration among various JLL businesses.

Dynamic

Ability to go above and beyond to help with any tasks that might come your way and solve problems effectively. Thinking strategically, simplifying the complex, seeing the big picture, and driving results are a few of the basic requirements of the job. You should thrive on change with an appetite for risks, be proactive and innovative with solutions. A desire to be the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for key systems / processes and client deliverables. Manage a team, train and mentor as needed.

Managing spaces

Attentive to detail and accuracy - particularly numbers and spatial creativity. 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 in reviewing, preparing, and updating project status reports on actual versus projected seat demand, reporting on the current supply and capacity, and forecasting inventory changes.

Communication champion

Excellent written and verbal communication skills; including active listening, verbal, written and visual communication and the ability to engage at all levels of leadership from administrative to executive level. Ability to understand complex ideas and communicate them to others on the account and client.

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.

Reporting

Ability to create accurate and credible planning reports to support Corporate Real Estate decision making including space, demand and utilization tracking.

• Leadership Skills: A leader with exceptional communication skills coupled with excellent active listening skills. Ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences. Presentation skills to promote ideas and proposals persuasively. Establish and maintain strong relationships on all levels of organization.
• Strong cultural alignment: unwavering ethical standards; drives excellence and innately collaborative
• Strategic in nature, with a strong bias towards transformation and execution
• Inspirational Leader, stimulates action with a balanced leadership style of control and influence
• Operates with a sense of urgency
• Decisive - willing to take risks
• Influencing and Teamwork: Ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal. Must be a team player and able to work collaboratively with and through others.
• Project Management Skills: Knows how to effectively structure, staff and manage projects and teams to insure there is clarity of expectation, timely execution, corrective action when needed and successful outcomes. Strong organizational and planning skills.
• Analytical Skills: Has a structured approach to problem solving with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics. Process oriented and drives to fix the ultimate root causes to drive sustainable change.
• Character with high perseverance and resourcefulness required to keep driving and finding ways to get the required steps done. Flexible and adaptable; able to work in ambiguous situations. Resilient and tenacious with a propensity to persevere.
• Commercially and financially astute
• Behavioral Competenc ies
• Think Big - Thinks strategically, simplifies the complex, solves complex problems, sees the big picture
• Drive Change - Thrives on change, learning agility, intel