Senior Strategic Planner

Overview

Pay: $180,000.00/annual

The pay listed is the salaried rate for this position. A specific offer will vary based on applicant’s experience, skills, abilities, geographic location, and alignment with market data.

Benefits: ABM offers a comprehensive benefits package. For information about ABM’s benefits, visit ABM Employee Benefits | Staff & Management (https://media.abm.com/wp-content/uploads/AnnualBenefitFlyers/Recruiting%20Flyer%20-%20Staff%20&%20Mgmt.pdf) .

Responsibilities

• Data Synthesis & Insights: Aggregate, analyze, and interpret complex data streams - including badge swipe data, sensor metrics, HR headcount growth forecasts, and IWMS records - to deliver deep insights into daily and historical utilization across office environments and specialized operational spaces.
• Planner Project Support: Partner closely with other Senior Planners to bolster their localized planning projects; serve as the designated subject matter expert to field data-related questions, validate spatial hypotheses, and provide the technical backup needed for their client presentations.
• Proactive Demand Modeling: Design and implement new predictive modeling processes and "early warning" triggers to forecast capacity constraints across diverse asset types and alert business leadership of future space requirements.
• Reporting Architecture: Establish and own the cadence for sophisticated, ongoing utilization reports and interactive dashboards that communicate portfolio health and operational efficiency to executive stakeholders.
• Policy Development: Translate data findings into strategic recommendations; author and iterate on tailored workplace and operational space policies (e.g., hybrid schedules, neighborhood sharing ratios, and flexible seating guidelines) to optimize footprint efficiency. ,
• Strategic Client Advisory: Partner directly with business unit leaders and real estate executives, translating intricate data points into compe ling, narrative-driven strategic options (such as lease renewals, consolidations, or expansions).

Qualifications

• Experience: 7+ years of experience in corporate strategic planning, corporate real estate analytics, or business inte ligence roles. Experience managing data for varied or non-traditional spaces is highly valued.
• Managerial Experience: In this role you wil be responsible for managing one Data and Reporting Specialist
• Collaborative Mindset: Proven ability to work side-by-side with peer planners, translating their real-world spatial problems into structured data queries and actionable solutions.
• Technical Skills: Advanced proficiency in data manipulation and visualization tools (e.g., advanced Excel, Tableau, Power BI, SQL, or Alteryx). Experience handling high-volume spatial, operational, and demographic datasets is mandatory.
• Strategic Planning: Proven track record of turning raw data into high-level strategic plans, corporate policies, and space solutions for both office and unique operational layouts.
• Education: Bachelor’s degree in data analytics, data science, design, architecture, or an analytical field (such as Finance, Statistics, Urban Planning, or Business Administration).
• Communication: Exceptional ability to translate data for non-technical audiences and peers, building executive-level narratives out of complex datasets.
• Cross-Functional Enablement: Qualitative feedback from peer Senior Planners on data accessibility, responsiveness to project queries, and the efficacy of supporting analytical toolsets.
• Process Automation: Successful deployment and client adoption of automated utilization dashboarding and alert systems.

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