Associate Director
JLL
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Job summary
JLL in New York, NY seeks an Associate Director in Consulting - Transformation to lead real estate transformation engagements, focusing on portfolio strategy, workplace modernization, and organizational design. You will work with client executives, manage day-to-day project deliverables, and guide junior staff to deliver high-impact results.
The role requires 6–10 years in real estate consulting, strong data analytics, and comfort with ambiguity.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Consulting, Real Estate, Business Strategy, Organizational Transformation, or related field.
- 6–10 years of experience in real estate or real estate consulting with transformation focus.
- Ability to translate qualitative and quantitative insights into actionable solutions for clients.
Responsibilities
- Support complex consulting engagements focused on enterprise real estate, facilities, and workplace transformation, leveraging JLL Consulting's delivery models, strategic frameworks, and implementation methodologies
- Support presenting consulting deliverables to client executives
- Be part of a consulting project team driving large-scale transformation programs across areas such as portfolio optimization, workplace modernization, mergers & acquisitions / divestures, real estate and facilities service model redesign for insourced/outsourced structures, and facilities and real estate organizational design
- Translate strategic recommendations into practical execution plans, ensuring transformation initiatives are structured, governable, and actionable across people, process, technology, and real estate dimensions
- Conduct data analysis via insights captured from surveys and interviews to create a synthesis of results to inform recommendations
- Deliver day-to-day project requirements under the supervision of the consulting project leadership team on-time and with a high level of quality
- Contribute to business development through client pursuits, proposal development, thought leadership, and executive presentations as time allows
- Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for clients on tactical project matters, building trusted working relationships within the client organization
- Collaborate effectively across project teams, fostering strong teaming and, where relevant, providing guidance to junior consulting staff
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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 peopleand empowering them tothrive, 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.
Location: NY, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington DC, Charlotte, Atlanta | Hybrid
JLL (NYSE: JLL) is a leading professional services firm driven by our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We deliver innovative solutions that help our clients, people, and communities thrive through a more humancentric, resilient, and responsible approach to work environments.
We're in a transformative period for commercial real estate. The rise of hybrid work, advances in workplace technology, evolving cost pressures, and changing employee expectations are creating new opportunities for organizations to rethink how real estate functions enable business performance.
We are seeking an experienced Associate Director with 6-10 years of experience in real estate consulting to support transformation engagements within JLL's Consulting practice.
The Associate Director will support a consulting project team in delivering real estate transformation projects spanning capabilities inclusive of portfolio strategy, workplace experience, workplace strategy, and real estate and facilities organizational design. This role will help create deliverables to define real estate transformation solutions for clients, support project leadership in client presentations, organize and manage day-to-day consulting teams and deliverables, and bring insights and experience into solutions.
This is an opportunity to shape and deliver high-impact real estate transformation projects for leading real estate and facilities organizations navigating complex real estate, workplace, and facilities challenges at enterprise scale. The ideal candidate brings strong deliverable execution skills, consulting rigor, data analytics experience, and a background in real estate with the ability to translate qualitative and quantitative recommendations into actionable recommendations for clients.
Given the pace of change in our industry and the growing role of AI in how we deliver consulting work, we are looking for a self-starter with strong learning agility who can be placed into an ambiguous, undefined problem and quickly figure out how to move it forward.
If you are passionate about real estate transformation and excited by the opportunity to help organizations modernize how they operate, support their workforce, and realize greater value from their real estate and workplace investments, we would love to hear from you.
- Support complex consulting engagements focused on enterprise real estate, facilities, and workplace transformation, leveraging JLL Consulting's delivery models, strategic frameworks, and implementation methodologies
- Support presenting consulting deliverables to client executives
- Be part of a consulting project team driving large-scale transformation programs across areas such as portfolio optimization, workplace modernization, mergers & acquisitions / divestures, real estate and facilities service model redesign for insourced/outsourced structures, and facilities and real estate organizational design,
- Translate strategic recommendations into practical execution plans, ensuring transformation initiatives are structured, governable, and actionable across people, process, technology, and real estate dimensions
- Conduct data analysis via insights captured from surveys and interviews to create a synthesis of results to inform recommendations
- Deliver day-to-day project requirements under the supervision of the consulting project leadership team on-time and with a high level of quality
- Contribute to business development through client pursuits, proposal development, thought leadership, and executive presentations as time allows
- Serve as a primary day-to-day point of contact for clients on tactical project matters, building trusted working relationships within the client organization
- Collaborate effectively across project teams, fostering strong teaming and, where relevant, providing guidance to junior consulting staff
- Bachelor's degree in Consulting, Real Estate, Business Strategy, Organizational Transformation, or related field
- 6-10 years of experience in real estate or real estate consulting with significant focus on transformation strategy, program leadership, and large-scale execution within the facilities and real estate space
- Proven experience supporting clients on complex real estate and facilities transformation initiatives, ideally within commercial real estate
- Depth in analyzing data to inform insights and recommendations
- Ability to produce & deliver presentations that help tell a story to senior client leadership
- Ability to manage to tight timelines and deadlines with the ability to pivot workload to client demands
- Strong communication skills to help manage client deliverables both upwards and downwards in project teams
- Proficiency with AI-enabled tools and digital technologies, with the ability to apply them to analysis, solution development, transformation planning, and client delivery
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
- Self-starter with strong learning agility; comfortable operating with ambiguity and able to quickly structure unfamiliar problems and drive engagements forward with minimal direction
This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.
90,000.00 - 140,000.00 USD per year
This range is an estimate and actual compensation may differ. Final compensation packages are determined by various considerations including but not limited to candidate qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.
Location: On-site -New York, NY
- 401(k) plan with matching company contributions
- 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
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