Senior Manager, Occupancy Planning (AMER), GREF

Work hard, have fun, make history. That's what we do every day at Amazon. As a key leader within Amazon's Global Real Estate & Facilities (GREF) team, the AMER Senior Manager Occupancy Planning (OP) role will oversee the strategic and tactical management of space and allocations within the corporate real estate portfolio at regional level. The lead collaborates closely with various stakeholders to drive successful occupancy planning initiatives and deliver data-driven recommendations for future space requirements.
The Senior Manager will be expected to align real estate strategy to business needs in partnership with key GREF Stakeholders and maintain a customer centric approach. The role will partner with both business leaders and employees to understand and influence space needs and requirements to inform supply and demand allocations. The role will be responsible for developing strategic recommendations on business line space allocations at a city level by leveraging Amazon’s size and scale and translate business requirements into effective solutions aligned with the workplace strategy.

This role will have the opportunity to hire and develop a team of area leads responsible for occupancy planning. The Senior Manager will oversee the AMER regional program, to include planning, budgeting, and activities that support corporate office locations across their assigned region.
The optimal candidate is an experienced, vibrant, and engaging professional who will excel within an entrepreneurial culture – providing vision, leadership, and communication – not afraid to dive deep into details and take ownership. They should also understand the nuance of being approachable, while at the same time consultative– providing direction/recommendations and fostering transparent relationships. The candidate must be able to balance frugality with creativity in offering solutions and approach problem-solving with an emphasis on root cause. An ideal candidate is able to navigate high level of ambiguity and demonstrate a bias for action, taking calculated risks in a fast-paced environment. The candidate must have experience managing teams.


Key job responsibilities
• Manage and guide an OP team responsible for strategic and tactical occupancy planning across the region, ensuring all activities align with the organization's goals and standards.
• Oversee the collection, verification, and analysis of headcount and space data, including current capacity and future projections, to support strategic occupancy planning and portfolio optimization.
• Act as the primary liaison between the occupancy planning team, GREF, and business units. Ensure effective communication and collaboration to gather strategic direction and align occupancy plans with business needs.
• Lead the development of occupancy scenarios and migration plans, evaluating multiple options to deliver data-driven recommendations that support real estate strategy and business goals.
• Ensure comprehensive project management for all occupancy planning activities, including data collection, scenario analysis, and presentation of final recommendations to GREF and business leaders.
• Oversee the creation of regular and ad hoc reports on occupancy metrics, space allocations, and other relevant data to support real estate decisions and portfolio strategy.
• Manage day-to-day operational occupancy requests and coordinate with other GREF teams to ensure accurate and up-to-date space utilization data and as-built documentation.