Area Occupancy Planner, Regional Portfolio Management (RPM-AMER) GREF - Culver City | Amazon Job

Job Description

Work hard, have fun, make history. That's what we do every day at Amazon. As a key member within Amazon's Global Real Estate & Facilities (GREF) team, the Occupancy Planner will own end-to-end space allocation and occupancy planning for their assigned area, driving results by managing complex programs across multiple stakeholders with competing priorities and tight timelines.

The Occupancy Planner will take full ownership of aligning real estate strategy to business needs — proactively identifying gaps, driving solutions, and delivering outcomes without waiting for direction. This role requires strong program management discipline: structuring multi-workstream initiatives, managing dependencies and trade-offs, and delivering on commitments in a fast-paced environment where requirements shift rapidly. The Occupancy Planner will partner directly with business managers, GREF stakeholders, and cross-functional teams to develop data-driven recommendations regarding space allocation, occupancy scenarios, and migration plans that enable effective solutions in alignment with Amazon's workplace strategy.

The ideal candidate demonstrates a bias for action — making high-quality decisions quickly with available data, taking calculated risks, and iterating rather than waiting for perfect information. They bring a strong stakeholder management capability: navigating conflicting needs across multiple business units, building trust through transparency and data, and influencing outcomes at varied levels of the organization. They approach planning with rigor — developing structured programs with clear milestones, tracking progress against metrics, and proactively mitigating risks. The candidate must be comfortable owning ambiguity, escalating appropriately, and delivering results even when operating in incomplete-information environments.

Key job responsibilities
Own space allocation and occupancy planning for assigned areas end-to-end — from data collection through recommendation delivery and implementation

Drive the collection, verification, and analysis of headcount and space data (current capacity and future projections), proactively resolving discrepancies and ensuring planning accuracy

Manage occupancy planning programs as structured initiatives with clear milestones, dependencies, decision points, and defined success metrics

Act as the primary liaison between occupancy planning teams, GREF partners, and business units — building trust, gathering requirements, aligning competing priorities, and delivering recommendations stakeholders can act on

Develop occupancy scenarios and migration plans, evaluating multiple options with quantified trade-offs to deliver data-driven recommendations that support real estate strategy and business goals

Take ownership of defect resolution related to space allocation — identifying root causes, implementing fixes, and preventing recurrence

Deliver reporting on occupancy metrics, space allocations, and portfolio-level data that enables leadership to make informed real estate decisions

Identify and implement process improvements in move management, space planning, and occupancy operations — measuring impact and scaling what works

Manage stakeholder relationships across multiple business units and organizational levels, navigating conflicting needs with a consultative, data-forward approach

Basic Qualifications:

- 5+ years of program or project Management experience
- 5+ years of developing program strategies and plans, diving execution, and influencing senior stakeholders experience
- Knowledge of Microsoft Excel (macros, pivots, lookups) at an advanced level
- Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
- Experience working cross-functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Experience in commercial real estate or lease administration within an industrial, commercial, and/or data center environment
- Experience working in a fast-paced and ambiguous environment, or experience in solving complex business challenges by delivering accurate and timely financial models, analysis, and recommendations that have a proven impact on business (e.g., financial savings, operational improvements, or customer benefits)

Preferred Qualifications:

- 3+ years of driving end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership experience
- 3+ years of driving process improvements experience
- Experience in stakeholder management, dealing with multiple stakeholders at varied levels of the organization
- Experience building processes, project management, and schedules
- Experience owning and driving large-scale cross-functional programs
- Experience managing large teams across multiple locations and languages
- Experience delivering forecasting, budgeting, and variance analysis, and data interpretation of results, or experience in identifying incomplete or inaccurate data, identifying the root cause and creating/implementing an escalation plan

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

Los Angeles County applicants: Job duties for this position include: work safely and cooperatively with other employees, supervisors, and staff; adhere to standards of excellence despite stressful conditions; communicate effectively and respectfully with employees, supervisors, and staff to ensure exceptional customer service; and follow all federal, state, and local laws and Company policies. Criminal history may have a direct, adverse, and negative relationship with some of the material job duties of this position. These include the duties and responsibilities listed above, as well as the abilities to adhere to company policies, exercise sound judgment, effectively manage stress and work safely and respectfully with others, exhibit trustworthiness and professionalism, and safeguard business operations and the Company’s reputation. Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

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