Sr. Occupancy Planner

Cushman & Wakefield • St. Louis, MO

9d • $80,750 - $95,000

About The Position

The Senior Occupancy Planner serves as a strategic leader overseeing the supply, capacity, and demand of the Client’s real estate portfolio. The Senior Occupancy Planner is responsible for ensuring all planning exercises align with the client's long term strategic vision. They are often responsible for high-density headquarters or complex regional campuses projects.
The Senior Occupancy Planner serves as a strategic leader overseeing the supply, capacity, and demand of the Client’s real estate portfolio. The Senior Occupancy Planner is responsible for ensuring all planning exercises align with the client's long term strategic vision. They are often responsible for high-density headquarters or complex regional campuses projects.

Requirements

• Education & Experience
• Degree: Bachelor’s degree (BA/BS) in Architecture, Interior Design, Corporate Real Estate, Facilities Management, or a related field.
• Experience: 7–10 years of experience in corporate real estate or occupancy planning, with at least 2–3 years in a direct people-management or team-lead capacity.
• Industry Knowledge: Proven track record in managing large-scale, complex assets or regional portfolios.
• Technical & Analytical Skills
• Systems Expertise: Proficiency in utilizing CAFM/IWMS software and relational database functionality.
• Design Literacy: Strong ability to interpret architectural drawings and floor plans.
• Analytics: Experience leveraging occupancy sensor data and utilization metrics to drive planning decisions.
• Software: Expert-level MS Office Suite skills, particularly Excel for data analytics and PowerPoint (storytelling through data).
• Soft Skills
• Communication: Exceptional oral and written communication skills for presenting to C-suite stakeholders.
• Ownership: A high degree of accountability and the ability to manage concurrent, high-pressure projects with minimal supervision.
• Customer Service Oriented: Maintain a proactive, customer-centric mindset

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership and Governance:
• Direct Management: Supervise and mentor a team of Occupancy Planners, providing guidance on career development, workload balancing, and technical training.
• Program Standards: Oversee the creation and maintenance of playbooks, templates, and standardized tools to ensure global consistency across all client deliverables.
• Performance Oversight: Establish clear goals, objectives, and KPIs for the planning team, ensuring high-quality output and adherence to deadlines.
• Strategic Planning & Portfolio Optimization
• Data-Driven Strategy: Synthesize complex data from CAFM/IWMS systems, badge swipes, and occupancy sensors to develop "Stay vs. Go" scenarios and portfolio restack strategies.
• Scenario Modeling: Direct the development of site assessments, space efficiency metrics, and supply/demand studies to support M&A activity or major consolidations.
• Solutioning: Lead root cause analysis for chronic space issues, recommending proactive alternatives for expansions, relocations, or hybrid work adjustments.
• Partner with internal leadership and client stakeholders to ensure resource alignment for upcoming projects and forecast future projects.
• Goal Setting: Develop goals, objectives, and timetables for organizational units and sub-units.
• Stakeholder & Relationship Management
• Executive Presentation: Prepare and deliver high-level operational presentations illustrating the space pipeline, vacancy risks, and ROI on proposed spatial changes.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with IFM (Facilities), PDS (Project Management), and IT/HR to ensure workplace changes are executed seamlessly and align with employee experience goals.
• Communication Champion: Act as a key advisor to Business Unit leaders to navigate the cultural and physical shifts associated with office renovations or relocations.
• Lead Meetings: Lead cross-functional meetings with clients and internal teams to drive decision-making, secure approvals, and manage stakeholder expectations.

Benefits

• 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level