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About the Role
The Senior Manager of Portfolio Planning will lead the development, execution, and communication of strategic occupancy planning recommendations aligned with Gap Inc.'s broader objectives. This role involves managing the Occupancy Planning and CAD teams, ensuring accurate data, effective long-term planning, and optimized solutions for Gap Inc. corporate offices. Key responsibilities include:
• Building and evolving the Portfolio/Occupancy Planning function from the ground up.
• Providing leadership and expertise to deliver integrated space planning solutions.
• Translating business needs into optimized portfolio and workplace strategies, blending both analytical and creative approaches.
• Presenting complex data and issues clearly to leadership, offering actionable insights and recommendations.
• Leading resource acquisition and management to support initiatives.
What You'll Do
- Workplace & Portfolio Strategy: Leverage in-depth knowledge of workplace needs to develop a strategy aligned with business profiles, job families, demand drivers, space availability, workplace conditions, and headcount projections.
- Cross-functional Collaboration: Lead teams to gather necessary data and drive alignment with business objectives.
- Corporate Real Estate Alignment: Analyze capacity and demand within the corporate real estate portfolio to support strategic business goals.
- Stakeholder Relationships: Foster partnerships with internal teams, ensuring collaborative communication and alignment with business needs.
- Occupancy Planning Execution: Oversee the development and execution of occupancy planning strategies, ensuring alignment with corporate goals, real estate initiatives, policies, and technology strategies.
- Executive Presentations: Deliver strategic presentations on portfolio performance, metrics, and recommendations to senior leadership.
- Data-Driven Decisions: Utilize both qualitative and quantitative data to inform decisions, ensuring accuracy in space data through collaboration with data & insights teams.
- Space Standards: Define, document, and maintain space standards, ensuring alignment with business needs.
- Liaison Role: Act as the primary liaison between the occupancy planning team and business units, ensuring effective communication and alignment of occupancy plans.
- Scenario Development: Lead the creation of occupancy scenarios and migration plans, delivering data-driven recommendations that align with business and real estate strategy.
- Project Management: Oversee all aspects of occupancy planning projects, including data collection, analysis, and presentation of final recommendations.
- Rhythm of Business Understanding: Develop a clear understanding of how business rhythms influence programming needs and decisions.
The ideal candidate will have the ability to take large, ambiguous ideas and transform them into actionable plans. They should possess significant experience in space planning for product-based companies, including creating and maintaining plans for key locations. They should also be skilled in generating and managing regional and global portfolio reports, with a particular focus on headcount projections, supply and capacity information, and the status of major initiatives.
As a subject matter expert, the candidate will bring best practices in workplace and occupancy planning to leadership teams, providing strategies and solutions for complex, region- and site-specific issues. They should have a proven track record of advising and influencing leadership to build consensus around recommended strategies and approaches. Experience in establishing new functions or teams from scratch is highly desirable, as well as the ability to work as a self-starter.
The candidate should also be proficient in demand planning, forecasting space requirements to support long-term business plans, and reviewing migration plans to assess their impact on overall portfolio strategy. They must be able to analyze complex situations and data, make informed judgments, and provide actionable recommendations. Finally, the candidate should be prepared to travel up to 10% of the time.
Develop and Execute Occupancy Strategies
- Space Optimization: Create and implement strategies to optimize the use of space across corporate offices, ensuring that the available space is efficiently utilized while meeting business needs.
- Long-Term Planning: Forecast long-term space requirements based on business growth, headcount projections, and strategic goals.
- Space Allocation: Develop and manage space allocation strategies that support different teams and functions, ensuring that space aligns with business objectives, team collaboration needs, and culture.
Data-Driven Decision Making
- Data Collection & Analysis: Collect, manage, and analyze workplace data (such as headcount, space utilization, occupancy rates) to inform strategic decisions.
- Reporting & Insights: Produce reports for leadership that detail the status of the real estate portfolio, space utilization, and performance metrics. Use data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities for improvement.
- Scenario Planning: Create and evaluate different space planning scenarios, helping leadership understand potential impacts of various strategies.
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Work closely with leadership, HR, facilities, finance, and IT teams to understand the evolving needs of the business and ensure that occupancy strategies support those needs.
- Internal Communication: Serve as the main point of contact between occupancy planning and other business units, ensuring smooth communication and alignment on real estate initiatives.
- Vendor Management: Partner with external vendors or contractors, if necessary, to implement real estate solutions, ensuring projects are completed on time and within budget.
- Workplace Transitions: Lead the planning and execution of workplace changes, such as office moves, redesigns, or expansions. Ensure that these transitions are seamless and meet the business's strategic objectives.
- Migration Plans: Develop and manage office migration or consolidation plans, assessing the impact on employees, departments, and business operations.
- Change Management: Implement change management practices to help employees adapt to new workplace environments or layouts, ensuring minimal disruption.
- Portfolio Performance: Monitor and assess the performance of the company's real estate portfolio, making recommendations for cost savings, improvements, and efficiencies.
- Space Standards: Develop and maintain space standards, ensuring consistency across locations while accommodating diverse business needs.
- Sustainability & Efficiency: Ensure that sustainability goals and energy efficiency initiatives are incorporated into occupancy planning and space utilization decisions.
- Team Leadership: Lead a team of service provider occupancy planning professionals, including analysts and planners.
- Resource Allocation: Manage resources effectively, ensuring that the occupancy planning team has the tools and support necessary to execute their work efficiently.
- Executive Briefings: Prepare and deliver presentations to senior leadership, communicating occupancy planning strategies, progress, and recommendations.
- Strategic Recommendations: Provide clear, data-backed recommendations to executive teams regarding portfolio optimization, space allocation, and long-term real estate strategies.
- Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
- One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.
- Employees can take up to five "on the clock" hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.
- Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee's base pay.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.
- See more of the benefits we offer.
Gap Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to providing a workplace free from harassment and discrimination. We are committed to recruiting, hiring, training and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds, and make all employment decisions without regard to any protected status. We have received numerous awards for our long-held commitment to equality and will continue to foster a diverse and inclusive environment of belonging. In 2022, we were recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Employers and one of the Best Employers for Diversity.
Salary Range: $140,700 - $186,400 USD
Employee pay will vary based on factors such as qualifications, experience, skill level, competencies and work location. We will meet minimum wage or minimum of the pay range (whichever is higher) based on city, county and state requirements.
US Candidates
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