Sr. Occupancy Planning Lead

Location: McLean, Virginia, USA, or Bedford, Massachusetts, USA

Salary: $144,500.00–$170,000.00 per year

Company

Cushman & Wakefield provides corporate real estate, workplace, facilities, and occupancy planning services.

What you will do

• Lead space management, occupancy planning, utilization analysis, and real estate allocation reporting across the client portfolio.
• Translate business requirements into workplace, space, design, move, FF&E, and data-management solutions aligned with the client’s real estate strategy.
• Lead Occupancy Planners in scenario development, long-term space planning, workplace strategy refreshes, and delivery of planning proposals and site assessments.
• Direct relocations, restacks, renovations, consolidations, expansions, refreshes, and other spatial projects and programs.
• Build and maintain playbooks, templates, tools, metrics, forecasts, headcount budgets, and gearing ratios.
• Partner with clients, Facilities, Project Management, client real estate leadership, service lines, vendors, and account leadership while ensuring SLA, KPI, and program-standard compliance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in a related discipline, such as Architecture, Interior Design, Corporate Real Estate and Facilities Management Planning/Coordination, Facilities, Project Management, or Construction Management.
• Experience implementing or executing strategic plans related to overall real estate strategy.
• Ability to present effectively and communicate at the executive level.
• Ability to perform root-cause analysis, develop and evaluate solutions, recommend courses of action, and improve operational efficiency.
• Ability to establish goals and objectives, manage organizational units and supervised sub-units, and coach planning teams.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time position supporting a dedicated account team or Center of Excellence in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Eligible employees may enroll in health, vision, dental, flexible spending, health savings, retirement savings, life, and disability insurance programs.
• Paid and unpaid time away from work may be available.
• Compensation may vary based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, job type, business line, hours worked, and collective bargaining applicability.
• Equal-opportunity employer with accommodation support under the ADAAA.