Strategic Space Planner

In Places we dont sit back and let things happen we make things happen and we do this in service to all Apple employees and customers. Our team is a diverse and nimble group that manages Apples corporate and retail workplaces and workplace services. We develop and manage Apples global real estate portfolio lead all related capital construction projects provide outstanding facilities and site services develop and lead sustainability initiatives to reduce the environmental impact of all Apple facilities including commute and renewable energy programs and do everything we can to ensure the health and safety of all Apple personnel facilities and customers in our facilities around the world. nnThe Space Planning team is responsible for establishing and driving efficient real estate strategies that support Apples corporate space needs. Were hiring a Strategic Space Planner: an individual contributor who will be dedicated to Americas (AMR) geographic markets to lead strategic planning and migration across the portfolio.n

Youll drive occupancy strategy and implementation across the AMR portfolio ensuring space supply proactively aligns with business demand. As an action-oriented workplace strategist youll lead end-to-end space planning initiatives and collaborate closely with business units to translate their location strategies into scalable workplace comfortable navigating ambiguity proactively seeking clarification weighing competing priorities against business impact and adapting plans as business requirements evolve. You bring a data analytics background to evaluate utilization metrics analyze capacity forecasts and translate quantitative insights into actionable recommendations that optimize the portfolio.n

Develop and execute a market plan of record (POR) that meets business objectives and maintains balanced portfolio metrics. This work ranges from large-scale campus planning to tactical building-level projects and lab expansion projects that address emerging needs within the market or occupancy analytics and forecasting- analyze complex workplace datasets to uncover utilization trends benchmark portfolio efficiency and model future square-footage and seat-allocation and agile scenario planning to evaluate shifting headcount organizational changes and emerging business needs to design flexible space scenarios and contingency plans that minimize operational spatial data and occupancy metrics into clear executive-ready presentations data visualizations and strategic business cases that guide leadership on real estate investments and portfolio as the primary Places contact for assigned business units leading planning discussions facilitating space negotiations and building trusted long-term closely with Real Estate Facilities Project Management Workplace Design and Places Finance teams to ensure integrated market solutions fulfill business needs and adhere to Places workplace seamless project handoffs from Space Planning to Project Management for approved space conversions and capital projects.n

7 years of experience in workplace strategy strategic space planning or corporate occupancy planning preferably within a technology company or corporate managing multiple space planning projects from conception through applying occupancy metrics space utilization analysis and scenario modeling to inform stakeholder synthesizing spatial data into visual presentations and business cases for executive negotiating space allocations and resolving competing stakeholder knowledge of Computer-Aided Facility Management (CAFM) and Integrated Workplace Management System (IWMS) platforms such as (Serraview Archibus Tririga or FM:Systems).

Masters degree in Real Estate (MRED) Urban Planning Architecture or Business Administration (MBA) and/or PMP in Keynote and business intelligence or data visualization platforms such as Tableau Power BI or advanced Excel with project management platforms such as of architectural drawings test-fits building code implications and core-and-shell leveraging AI-driven tools to accelerate scenario planning optimize multi-floor stacking diagrams and analyze space at influencing stakeholders and communicating complex trade-offs clearly to drive alignment.