Strategic Occupancy Planner

Overview

Drive occupancy strategy development and implementation for medium to high complexity site and campus locations across the client's regional portfolio, managing supply, capacity, demand and vacancy to support short- and long-term headcount projections.

What you'll do

• Analyze supply and demand data to evaluate the impact of current and finance-approved forecast headcount and specialty space requirements on occupancy strategies.
• Analyze the portfolio and identify opportunities to right-size space for all businesses within the existing and committed portfolio, including validating additional space requirements.
• Develop migration stacking scenarios for medium to high complexity locations, included within Portfolio Strategy Papers, Occupancy Plan of Record and CRE initiatives.
• Plan and manage allocations by site, city, campus and metro for current and future state based on the finance-approved headcount forecast.
• Develop migration plans and sequencing of moves.
• Incorporate occupancy strategy into long-term strategy documents to articulate impacts on city, campus, site and org-level allocations.
• Identify optimization opportunities at city, campus and site level.
• Engage regularly with portfolio leaders to understand business requirements and customer insights and recommend occupancy strategy solutions.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive portfolio optimization strategies aligning real estate assets with client business objectives and financial targets across regional markets.
• Conduct portfolio-wide financial analysis including lease expiration schedules, occupancy cost benchmarking and ROI assessments to identify consolidation, expansion or divestment opportunities.
• Lead strategic portfolio reviews with senior leadership, presenting data-driven recommendations on site rationalization, market entry/exit strategies and capital allocation priorities.
• Evaluate portfolio risks and opportunities, including lease obligations, market conditions and geographic footprint alignment with talent acquisition strategies.
• Create multi-year portfolio roadmaps integrating workplace strategy initiatives, cost optimization targets and business growth projections.
• Serve as strategic liaison between Occupancy Planning and Project Management teams to translate occupancy strategies into executable project plans.
• Provide Project Management teams with detailed space requirements, phasing plans and occupancy targets to inform project scope, budget and timeline.
• Participate in project kick-off meetings and design charrettes to validate that project solutions align with approved occupancy strategies and portfolio objectives.
• Monitor project delivery milestones and provide occupancy guidance on stacking plans, adjacency requirements and phasing sequences.
• Conduct post-occupancy reviews with Project Management to capture lessons learned and refine occupancy planning methodologies.
• Provide insight and recommendations to optimize the portfolio based on internal demand and trends, through rebalancing, repurposing, acquisitions or dispositions.
• Evaluate the CRE portfolio strategy and determine the best path to optimal outcomes in alignment with goals.
• Work closely with Portfolio Managers and Strategy leads from a Center of Expertise perspective to establish and maintain a global governance model driving consistency across regional portfolio teams.
• Oversee the balancing of supply and demand requirements, current and forecast, across business organizations, including identifying business risks and mitigation plans.
• Ensure strong channels of communication between Business Intelligence and Global Business.
• Initially responsible for Aerocity locations, followed by APO locations, and subsequently Circle and Zonal Offices.
• Evaluate and recommend market-leading space management tools to support occupancy planning.
• Coordinate closely with individual building teams and, at a later stage, Circle FMs to support data collection, validation and system uploads.

Details

• Location: On-site, Gurugram, Haryana, India.
• Scheduled weekly hours: 48.