Space Planning Executive

About JLL
- We’re JLL—a leading professional services and investment management firm specializing in real estate. We have operations in over 80 countries and a workforce of over 91,000 individuals around the world who help real estate owners, occupiers and investors achieve their business ambitions. As a global Fortune 500 company, we also have an inherent responsibility to drive sustainability and corporate social responsibility. That’s why we’re committed to our purpose to shape the future of real estate for a better world. We’re using the most advanced technology to create rewarding opportunities, amazing spaces and sustainable real estate solutions for our clients, our people and our communities.
Our core values of teamwork, ethics and excellence are also fundamental to everything we do and we’re honored to be recognized with awards for our success by organizations both globally and locally.
Creating a diverse and inclusive culture where we all feel welcomed, valued and empowered to achieve our full potential is important to who we are today and where we’re headed in the future. And we know that unique backgrounds, experiences and perspectives help us think bigger, spark innovation and succeed together.
Space Planning Executive
Work Dynamics

What this job involves
Overall responsibility for determining the seat capacity needed by an organisation to meet changing demands. Understands how the business operates and plans for future capacity requirements. Undertakes planning activities to ensure targets are met and optimises seat efficiency, Conduct meetings with BU’s on seat utilization every quarter enabling property strategy
Major Responsibilities/ Accountabilities
Strategy and Development
Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice capacity planning vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures, technology tool etc to aid and improve operational performance
General and Task Management
- Responsible for capacity planning and for development of these services in the organisation
- Lead capacity planning activities ensuring delivery against operational requirements and which optimise seat occupancy
- Define systems and methods to continually improve plans so that the organisation can better to anticipate customer needs
- Assess existing capacity and develop operational plans and forecasts based on future plans for demand
- Manage deviations from the plan that have financial impact
- Monitor key manufacturing processes for capacity and demand, identify capacity constraints and provide analysis
- Analyse specifications and capacity and undertake appropriate calculations to estimate job requirements in terms of labour, tools, materials and resources
- Ensure that the right tools and processes are in place to deliver effective capacity planning and performance monitoring across the organisation
- Review data and trends and diagnose problems and concerns
- Utilise knowledge and research methods to benchmark capacity planning activities and to drive best practice results

Should be able to bring in technology best fit to maintain the data, demand, occupancy percentage etc
Able to make business cases
Relationship Management
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to obtain and ensure that current and accurate information is used for planning purposes to meet operational requirements
- Liaise with customers to understand existing and future demands
- Regularly communicate plans and forecasts to internal stakeholders and review plans to ensure efficient resource utilisation
- Attend meetings and update others of issues and concerns, in particular when there is a risk of not meeting customer demands or where there are over capacity concerns
- Co-ordinate cross functional activities to reconcile variances from original plans and maintain a view of actual against forecast projections
- Ensure that effective data, statistical analysis and performance metrics are available to internal stakeholders

Self-Management
- Comply with the Health, Safety and Environmental Policies
- Proactively contribute to creating a good team atmosphere
- Anticipates and overcomes obstacles
- Makes useful links to arrive at insightful plans and solutions
- Embraces personal challenge
- Resilient, optimistic, flexible and works well under pressure
- Confident, rounded thinking
- Is self aware

Key skills
- Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development
- Highly skilled communicator with the ability to communicate complex concepts to others
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to form and maintain strong relationships internally and externally and engage with stakeholders
- Highly developed analytical and problem solving skills
- Excellent attention to detail skills
- Commercial and financial awareness, with a full understanding of the impact of failure with regards to business costs, production targets and fulfilment of customer orders
- Highly de