Global Planning Manager, Global Planning, GREF – Global Portfolio Strategy & Planning

The Global Real Estate and Facilities (GREF) organization is looking for a strategic leader to establish global occupancy planning systems and processes. GREF is responsible for Amazons corporate office portfolio creating the spaces that inspire Amazonians to make history. The globally diverse team manages Amazons corporate offices in more than 60 countries. GREF provides real estate transactions expertise business partnering space and occupancy planning design and construction capital investment program management facility maintenance and operations all contributing to the employee experience and leveraging places and programs to enable culture to thrive at Amazon. Within GREF the Global Occupancy Planning (OP) team establishes and builds all mechanisms and systems that GREF utilizes for managing global space allocation working closely with GREF OP Tools GREF Tech and GREFs Space Planning teams within their respective regional portfolio management orgs.

In this role you will have the opportunity to lead the end-to-end occupancy planning process. With your team you will work closely with internal customers collaborate cross-functionally to understand and define occupancy planning needs and maintain ownership over occupancy planning systems reporting and mechanisms. You will work in tandem with the OP Tools team which owns developing the required software products to execute on your OP goals. This high visibility role will impact the success of the GREF organization and directly impact business partners across the company. The position requires strong customer centric strategic planning analytical skills problem solving and excellent communication skills. This role will lead with curiosity and work collaboratively to solve problems across complex systems. They will dive deep into portfolio planning and space allocation and own defining the strategy and mechanisms to deliver on occupancy goals. A track record of delivering results in a fast paced dynamic environment is a must. Being self-driven adaptable and able to manage multiple priorities is a key to success. This role is a great fit for someone who is sensitive to the diverse perspectives of stakeholders and works with them to resolve differences.


Key job responsibilities
Engaging with customers and internal stakeholders to deeply understand their occupancy planning needs while identifying and incorporating disruptive capabilities
Assess business opportunities and communicate trade-offs with portfolio strategy and product teams to ensure we prioritize the most critical and impactful work
Managing global and regional performance and sharing insights and recommendations to drive continued business growth
Work cross-functionally with global and regional teams to deliver strategic projects on time
Work collaboratively with Product UI/UX and regional teams on product requirements
Establish metrics and key performance indicators for success
Find efficiencies and remove bottlenecks to existing processes if needed


- Bachelors degree or equivalent
- 7 years of business development or product management experience
- 7 years using complex data sets and metrics to inform strategies
- Experience working and communicating with multiple stakeholders C-level executives and cross functional teams or equivalent
- Experience in strategic thinking about business enterprise software products and new technology platforms and architectures or equivalent

- MBA or Masters Degree
- Experience conducting business and financial analysis including forecasting monitoring and reporting
- Superior analytical and quantitative skills including ability to identify and solve ambiguous problems
- An entrepreneurial drive; proven ability to influence others
- Experience working cross functionally with tech and non-tech teams
- Ability to work in a highly ambiguous and rapidly changing environment; willingness to roll up your sleeves and pitch in wherever necessary
- Experience in consulting or investment banking
- Track record of performance excellence

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