JobResponsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Insights

• Conduct analyses that address ambiguous or evolving problem statements, drawing on prior experience to shape approach.

• Translate incomplete or conflicting information into structured insights and strategic options.

• Test scenarios and conclusions to strengthen confidence in analytical findings.

Client Delivery

• Lead complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements from framing through executive delivery; set the engagement strategy, workplan architecture, governance rhythm, and quality standards.

• Direct end-to-end engagement execution by overseeing integrated workstreams, key milestones, and dependencies; ensure delivery remains on time, on scope, and client-ready

• Define analytical and storytelling structure for major deliverables; translate complex inputs into decision-ready outputs that clarify tradeoffs, implications, and actions.

• Provide senior-level direction and escalation support to resolve delivery challenges and maintain momentum across workstreams.

• Serve as a primary advisor to senior client stakeholders; guide ambiguity, shape decision processes, and influence alignment toward clear, actionable outcomes.

• Lead executive presentations and facilitate stakeholder working sessions and workshops to drive decisions, alignment, and ownership.

• Coordinate cross functional internal and external partners to integrate inputs into a single cohesive client narrative and recommendation set.

Team Leadership

• Coach and develop Managers, Senior Associates, and Associates through structured delegation, mentorship, and performance feedback; raise analytic rigor and executive storytelling across the team.

• Provide leadership oversight across teams to ensure consistent application of Cushman & Wakefield consulting practices and standards; support onboarding and capability building as needed.

• Act as a role model for inclusive leadership, collaboration, and professional excellence.

Business Development

• Shape proposals, solution designs, and pursuit strategies by defining the client problem framing,approachand methodology, workplans, and deliverable storyboard.

• Support account growth by identifying subsequent opportunities during delivery and connecting client needs to adjacent partners and service lines.

Practice Management

• Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks and issues that threaten scope, timeline, or quality; implement course corrections across workstreams and stakeholders.

• Set, enforce, and model quality control standards for logic, accuracy, structure, and client readiness; establish review rhythms that reduce rework and increase consistency across deliverables.

• Ownpostengagementpractice housekeeping, including archiving final work products and developingproposalreadycase studies and testimonials.

• Guide engagement resourcing, sequencing, and delivery decisions to balance quality, risk, and client expectations across workstreams.

• Define and refine repeatable methodologies, templates, and delivery playbooks that improve consistency, scalability, and quality across engagements.

• Contribute to practice thought leadership through development of points of view, insights, and internal knowledge assets that strengthen market credibility and equips teams to deliver consistently.

Portfolio & Location Strategy (As applicable)

• Lead portfolio and location strategy engagements by directing scenario modeling and multi-factor evaluations across cost, labor and market dynamics,risk, constraints, and growth considerations to surface clear tradeoffs and recommendations.

• Build executive-ready business cases and decision pathways by defining evaluation criteria, governance checkpoints, and final option sets—ensuring recommendations are defensible, comparable, and ready for executive action.

Workplace and Transformation Strategy(As applicable)

• Lead enterprise workplace strategy engagements by defining the diagnostic approach, prioritizing hypotheses, and integrating multi-source data (utilization, experience, business needs) and stakeholder inputs into a cohesive future-state workplace strategy.

• Translate findings into executive decisions by shaping the narrative, defining the option set, and outlining animplementation roadmap (what changes, why, sequence, and ownership), that is actionable and implementation-ready

• Design and lead multi-phase change programs by defining the transformation strategy, governance model, and execution roadmap across operating model changes, stakeholder engagement,communications, enablement, and adoption mechanisms.

• Drive alignment and sustained outcomes by translating business objectives into apractical transformation plans,monitoring execution, and adjusting interventions to embed new ways of working.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certificationrequired

• 7-10 years of relevant experience

• Advancedexpertisein consulting delivery and processes, including critically framing complex problems andtrade‑offs, testing competing hypotheses, applying governance and risk management standards, and producinghigh‑quality,executive‑readyrecommendations

• Advanced commercial real estate and business acumen, including pricing models, margin levers,utilizationmix, and portfolio health indicators, and how these shapeengagement‑levelandportfolio‑leveltrade‑offs

• Advanced understanding of how Workplace & Transformation and Portfolio & Location capabilities integrate to deliver cohesive,enterprise‑levelclient solutions

• Advanced analytical capability, including research design, assumption testing, and analytical methods, as well as guiding analyses and translating complex,multi‑sourceinputs into defensible,executive‑readynarratives using AI, analytical, and presentation tools

• Advanced experience leadingend‑to‑endengagements, including managing scope, governance, scheduling, staffing, and quality, whilefacilitatingexecutive andcross‑functionalalignment, guidingtrade‑offs, and drivingdecision‑makingwithout formal authority

• Demonstrated people leadership through delegation, coaching, feedback, and quality oversight to support individual performance, team effectiveness, and bench development

• Intermediate business development capability, including translating client needs and value propositions into structured solution narratives, proposals, storyboards, and workplans

• Applied experience developing and refining methods, templates, tools, and QA standards to improve delivery consistency, scalability, and speed

• Advanced change planning capability, including designing and executing integrated engagement, communication, training, and reinforcement plans to support adoption of new ways of working