Job Title
Occupancy Planner, Austin
Job Description Summary
The Occupancy Planner oversees and provides tactical occupancy planning expertise in support of supply, capacity, and demand of the client's portfolio of space in a specific site in Austin.
Job Description
Responsibilities
• Work closely with the Facilities Manager to manage the site employee weekly small/large/project moves and monthly site to site moves.
• Develop and maintain excellent working relationship with key business partners, vendor partners and Site Operations Manager.
• Develop site occupancy plan for supply and demand: analysis of forecasted headcount and seat supply projections, supporting graphs, stacking plans, move scenarios, challenges and pros/cons for each recommendation.
• Implement move plan in accordance with the approved occupancy plan.
• Alter/recommend changes to the plan as business drivers, mergers, acquisitions or dispositions arise.
• Facilitate neighborhood planning, move meetings or town halls in support of occupancy plans.
• Support change management as it pertains changing work space and work style.
• Support communication plan as it pertains to occupancy plan.
• Drive to improve Client awareness by providing trending analysis: new hire, terminations, moves, vacancy, actual vs forecast.
• Strive to maintain best in class space and occupancy data.
• Implement processes in accordance with Client Playbook for Space & Occupancy Planning.
Requirements
• BA/BS degree in a related discipline or field of study (i.e. Architecture, Interior Design, Corporate Real Estate & Facilities Management Planning/Coordination, Facilities, Project or Construction Management, etc.) or 10+ years of related experience.
• Proficient in MS Office Suite and fundamental in AutoCAD.
• Knowledge of Excel Pivots or Index Match, Power BI, iOffice or Tableau is a plus.
• Experience managing and executing move coordination/day to day service requests.
• Experience in communicating with all levels of management.
• Strong organizational with attention to details Strong communication skills.
• Proactively searches for process improvement.
• Displays Ownership
Skills
• Strong analytical, organizational and problem solving skills
• Ability to track all work and key metrics
• Ability to process work quickly, accurately and with changing priorities
• Ability to develop user documentation as it relates to functions
• Ability to effectively interpret and apply policy and procedure
• Strong verbal presentation skills, ability to communicate planning strategy and concepts to Leadership through to move plans to employees
• Basic understanding of Corporate Real Estate and Financial concepts
People
• Strong team player who is adaptable and capable of driving change
• Effective oral and written communicating skills
• Advanced relationship building skills
Systems & Tools
• Advanced skills in Excel
• Advanced skills in Business Intelligence tools (i.e..: Tableau and Power BI)
• Advanced skills in Adobe and Microsoft applications
• Advanced skills CAFM/IWMS (iOffice preferred)
• Fundamental awareness in: updating AutoCAD, applying poly-lining methodologies and standards (i.e. BOMA Standard Method), managing and reporting accurate and up-to-date space and occupancy related data.
Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.
The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate's experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $ 76,500.00 - $90,000.00
INCO: "Cushman & Wakefield"
