Corporate and Workplace Solutions, Americas Head of Workplace Planning, Vice President, New York City
About The Position
The Americas Head of Workplace Planning serves as a strategic advisor to senior business leaders, helping shape workplace solutions that enhance employee experience, support business objectives, optimize occupancy costs, and maximize the value of the firm’s real estate investments. The role combines workplace strategy, client engagement, data analytics, and financial planning to drive informed portfolio decisions across the Americas. It requires a thoughtful perspective on how the workplace continues to evolve to support changing business needs, alongside a disciplined, data-driven approach to testing ideas, measuring outcomes, and scaling successful solutions across the portfolio. The role leads workplace planning professionals responsible for occupancy planning, workplace strategy, and portfolio analytics, and coordinates with project management, engineering, security, facilities, hospitality, and technology teams. It also partners with Finance, Corporate Real Estate, and business leaders to prioritize investments, improve real estate performance, and guide long-range capital and occupancy strategies.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in workplace strategy, corporate real estate, occupancy planning, architecture, workplace consulting, or a related field.
- Demonstrated success advising senior executives and influencing complex business decisions.
- Strong financial acumen, including the ability to develop business cases and communicate the economic impacts of workplace decisions.
- Excellent presentation, stakeholder management, and executive communication skills.
- Proven ability to lead teams and drive cross-functional initiatives in a complex organization.
- Data-driven mindset and experience leveraging analytics to solve business problems.
- Strong problem-solving, negotiation, and change management capabilities.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution in a fast-paced environment.
Responsibilities
- Partner with senior leaders to understand workplace challenges, business priorities, growth plans, and organizational needs.
- Advise clients on workplace solutions balancing employee experience, productivity, collaboration, compliance, and cost efficiency.
- Lead strategic workplace discussions, presenting options, tradeoffs, recommendations, and financial implications to executives and stakeholders.
- Facilitate decisions on workplace investments, space allocations, portfolio optimization, and future workplace models.
- Advise on workplace trends, benchmarking, and emerging practices that can improve business outcomes.
- Lead and develop workplace planning professionals responsible for occupancy planning, workplace strategy, and portfolio analytics.
- Drive an integrated planning approach across space, technology, security, and workplace experience functions.
- Establish governance processes for workplace requests and ensure alignment on scope, schedule, budget, and strategic objectives.
- Coordinate with project management, engineering, security, facilities, hospitality, and technology teams to deliver workplace solutions.
- Use workplace data, utilization metrics, and portfolio analytics to identify opportunities and inform decisions.
- Develop reporting on workplace performance, costs, and utilization trends.
- Translate workplace and occupancy data into actionable business recommendations.
- Identify and evaluate opportunities to improve space efficiency while maintaining an exceptional workplace experience.
- Develop business cases and evaluate workplace initiatives from employee experience and financial perspectives.
- Quantify the impact of workplace decisions on occupancy costs, capital investments, utilization, and long-term portfolio strategy.
- Partner with Finance, Corporate Real Estate, and business leaders to prioritize investments and optimize real estate performance.
- Support stay-vs-go analyses, location strategies, footprint optimization initiatives, and major workplace transformations.
- Oversee investment prioritization and long-range capital and occupancy strategies.
Benefits
- Discretionary bonus eligibility for active employees as of fiscal year-end.
- Benefits and wellness offerings, including training and development opportunities, firmwide networks, and personal finance and mindfulness programs.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
