Business Operations Manager

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Role Purpose:

The Business Operations Manager is a critical operational leader within JLL Real Estate Due Diligence (JREDD), responsible for driving standardization, efficiency, and continuous improvement across business processes and financial operations. This role serves as a central hub for cross-functional coordination, performance reporting, and process optimization — ensuring that JREDD's operational execution remains aligned with strategic priorities, financial targets, and client satisfaction goals.

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

Financial Oversight & Invoicing Management

• Lead monthly invoicing oversight across multiple teams, proactively partnering with JREDD Business Leads and Operations Directors to drive earlier billing and improve cash flow, revenue timing, and accountability.
• Monitor due dates and revenue alignment, ensuring operational execution remains consistent with financial targets.
• Maintain and continuously enhance shared invoicing, tracking, and reporting tools to support financial transparency and data-driven decision-making.
• Support standardization of finance management practices across JREDD, including development of proactive KPIs for early intervention and corrective action.
• Enable centralized forecasting and reporting on JREDD financial performance, incorporating both leading and lagging indicators from the three reporting business units.

Operational Reporting & Performance Metrics

• Produce and manage weekly platform metrics reporting covering revenue, production, and utilization for leadership review.
• Review utilization trends and partner with discipline leads to address staffing imbalances and low-utilization concerns.
• Support JREDD's performance monitoring, measurement, and management strategy to drive transparency into customer satisfaction and quality results.
• Develop and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to ensure operational success and identify areas for continuous improvement.

Staffing & Resource Management

• Lead monthly resource management calls, expanding capacity and supporting flexible staffing strategies aligned to JREDD's evolving delivery model.
• Support operational leadership through team coordination, recurring meeting facilitation, and recruiting support.
• Serve as a central point of contact for resolving issues related to workload distribution, staffing, and project execution.

Business Process Standardization & Optimization

• Evaluate current-state business operations processes, tools, and resources across JREDD to identify opportunities for best-practice standardization and creation of centralized support workflows.
• Work with JREDD stakeholders to centralize and standardize operations with a goal of driving efficiency and continuous improvement across all functions.
• Lead development and implementation of an effective change management strategy and program that aligns to various organizational change scenarios.
• Establish and maintain a document control strategy that defines standardization of JREDD documentation, including process SOPs, reporting outputs, and client communications.
• Act as a platform representative in the testing of new technologies and lead subsequent implementation of those solutions into daily operations across teams.
• Act as a go-to resource for troubleshooting operational and system issues as they arise.

Stakeholder Engagement & Communications

• Manage organization of the JREDD quarterly all-hands call, including content management and submissions, and as well as event planning and execution.
• Participate in weekly operations and discipline team calls, delivering updates including utilization, projected revenue, and organizational changes.
• Develop and oversee an effective JREDD communications and engagement strategy, including stakeholder mapping and documentation of organizational context and needs.
• Establish strong engagement and relationships with key JREDD leaders and relevant stakeholders across the broader JLL organization.
• Support articulation of JREDD's value creation and value proposition across service lines and delivery practices.
• Support and lead strategic JREDD initiatives as they arise.

The Candidate

The ideal candidate brings a strong operational delivery background with demonstrated ability to lead multi-faceted initiatives, drive standardization across complex organizations, and influence outcomes without direct authority. They combine commercial acumen with analytical rigor and excel at communicating across all levels of an organization.

Experience

• Demonstrated professional experience leading and influencing operations teams, driving collaboration and delivering shared organizational goals.
• Commercially and financially astute, with a track record of managing financial reporting, forecasting, and invoicing in a professional services or real estate environment.
• Experience navigating large, complex organizations and building effective cross-functional partnerships.
• Excellent analytical and program management skills, with a structured approach to problem-solving.
• Transformation experience across process, technology, and systems is a strong advantage.
• Lean process experience a plus, with a firm understanding of lean principles of process delivery.
• Track record of demonstrating intellectual curiosity and driving operational improvements through an organization.

Key Skills

Leadership

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to clearly articulate messages to a variety of audiences.
• Strong cultural alignment: drives excellence and is innately collaborative.
• Decisive, results-driven, and operates with a sense of urgency; willing to take calculated risks.
• Challenges the status quo and constantly seeks opportunities to improve service delivery and efficiency.

Influence & Teamwork

• Ability to influence others and move stakeholders toward a common vision or goal.
• Effective at all levels of an organization; a strong team player who works collaboratively with and through others.

Project & Program Management

• Knows how to structure, staff, and manage projects and teams to ensure clarity of expectation, timely execution, corrective action when needed, and successful outcomes.

Analytical & Adaptive Thinking

• Structured approach to problem-solving with a natural inclination for planning strategy and tactics.
• Critical thinker who drives to root causes to yield sustainable change.
• Flexible and adaptable; able to work effectively in ambiguous and fast-changing environments.
• Resilient and tenacious with the perseverance to keep driving progress when facing organizational complexity.

This position does not provide visa sponsorship. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship.

Estimated compensation for this position:

This range is an estimate and actual compensation may differ. Final compensation packages are determined by various considerations including but not limited to candidate qualifications, location, market conditions, and internal considerations.

Location:

If this job description resonates with you, we encourage you to apply, even if you don’t meet all the requirements.  We’re interested in getting to know you and what you bring to the table!

Personalized benefits that support personal well-being and growth:

JLL recognizes the impact that the workplace can have on your wellness, so we offer a supportive culture and comprehensive benefits package that prioritizes mental, physical and emotional health. Some of these benefits may include:

• 401(k) plan with matching company contributions

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision Care

• Paid parental leave at 100% of salary 

• Paid Time Off and Company Holidays

• Early access to earned wages through Daily Pay

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