Director, Space & Occupancy Planning

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Make your next move an expert one. At Colliers it's not our success that sets us apart, it's how we achieve it. Our people are passionate, take ownership and always do what's right for our clients, people and communities. Why Colliers? Our enterprising environment needs your expertise to facilitate Colliers' continued growth as an industry leader. Our nimble, decentralized culture can provide you with a wealth of opportunities to learn about our business and quickly gain experience to accelerate your career. About you The Director, Workplace Strategy & Occupancy Planning, is responsible for leading the delivery of data-driven workplace strategy and occupancy planning services for a global corporate client. This role serves as the central day-to-day leader for workplace planning initiatives, feasibility studies, S&OP portfolio analysis, and strategic space requests, ensuring every recommendation is grounded in quantitative analysis, business requirements, and organizational objectives. Operating in a player-coach model, this leader oversees the activities of a team of workplace strategists and space & occupancy planners while remaining actively engaged in project delivery, including complex analyses, executive presentations, data collection, scenario development, and strategic forecasting. The Director establishes priorities across a diverse portfolio of projects, balances resources against contractual commitments, and partners closely with other partner groups like Portfolio Strategy, Transactions, Project Management, Workplace Operations, and client leadership to deliver integrated workplace solutions. Success in this role requires exceptional analytical capability, executive presence, and strong people leadership, with the ability to seamlessly balance hands-on execution and team leadership. The ideal candidate excels at transforming complex workplace data and business requirements into actionable insights, strategic recommendations, and high-quality deliverables while guiding a team through projects ranging from day-to-day requests to complex global initiatives. In this role, you will... Lead the delivery of workplace strategy, occupancy planning, and feasibility studies for a global client, developing evidence-based recommendations that align workplace solutions with business objectives, operational needs, and organizational priorities. Operate in a player-coach model by leading, producing, reviewing, and continuously improving the team's work. Actively contribute to analyses, planning studies, presentations, dashboards, and client deliverables while coaching and directing team members and ensuring a consistently high standard of quality. Serve as the central intake lead for workplace planning initiatives, evaluating requests, defining project approaches, prioritizing work, assigning resources, and balancing workload against contractual commitments, service levels, and evolving business priorities. Provide day-to-day program leadership by overseeing multiple concurrent workplace initiatives, proactively managing priorities, timelines, deliverables, risks, and resource needs while remaining actively involved throughout project execution. Partner with the client, business leaders, and other stakeholders to facilitate workshops, interviews, planning sessions, occupancy evaluations, and other qualitative and quantitative discovery efforts that validate business requirements and inform workplace solutions. Lead and actively participate in the collection, validation, reconciliation, auditing, and analysis of workplace, occupancy, utilization, and business data, ensuring recommendations are supported by accurate, reliable, and defensible information. Develop, review, and refine workplace planning scenarios, feasibility studies, utilization analyses, capacity models, adjacency studies, block plans, test fits, business cases, and strategic recommendations that support informed business decisions. Develop, monitor, and audit complex quantitative and qualitative data into executive-ready dashboards, reports, presentations, and compelling narratives that clearly communicate insights, opportunities, risks, and recommended actions. Establish, maintain, and continuously improve planning methodologies, reporting frameworks, dashboards, analytical models, and standardized processes that improve consistency, scalability, and decision-making across the workplace planning program. Establish and execute data stewardship practices by auditing, validating, reconciling, and maintaining workplace, occupancy, and spatial data across IWMS platforms and related planning systems. Ensure data integrity through rigorous quality control, standardized processes, and ongoing review of planning outputs. Work alongside the planning team to review, challenge, and elevate the quality of analyses, planning scenarios, reporting, and client deliverables, ensuring recommendations are insightful, actionable, and aligned with client

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