Job Title

Senior Director

Job Description Summary

Cushman & Wakefield’s Strategic Consulting practice is an industry leader in aligning organizations’ business strategies with their people, real estate, facilities, and workplaces to achieve business objectives and gain competitive advantage. Our innovative strategies help clients make value-based decisions, effect meaningful change and achieve quantifiable results. This practice focuses on Global Occupier Services, the global client account side of the organization, where we solve some of the most complex real estate challenges for the world’s largest blue-chip occupiers.

We currently have a Senior Director open in the practice to support the Americas region. For this position, Cushman & Wakefield will offer a competitive salary and benefits package, commensurate with regional market expectations and at a level consistent within C&W’s network of peer professionals. This role directly supports client transformation initiatives by aligning workplace strategy with organizational goals.

Job Description

PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES

The Senior Director position supports the full consulting lifecycle—from business development to strategy formulation and execution as follows:

• This role reports to the Americas Lead of Strategic Consulting.
• The individual will manage projects, people, and key client relationships and work with other senior leaders with subject matter expertise in workplace strategy and change management in the Strategic Consulting practice, including contributing to thought leadership and client deliverables.
• You will be expected and encouraged to proactively build and maintain relationships with our most important clients and prospects, generate new business opportunities in partnership with other C&W leaders, and contribute to the delivery of high-impact solutions with a sales objective of $600,000/year.
• The position requires professional presentation skills, extensive facilitation experience, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, along with direct industry experience, are essential.
• This role offers exposure to high-profile clients and opportunities for professional growth and advancement within the Strategic Consulting team.

KNOWLEDGE & EXPERIENCE

• Minimum of 20 years’ experience in a similar or complementary role, including key project experience in workplace/real estate strategy decision-making.

• Experience with leading high performing teams, partnering with sophisticated client teams, and navigating relationships with externals partners.

• High emotional intelligence and exceptional leadership, problem solving, risk mitigation, and relationship-building skills.

• Strong written, oral, analytical, and graphic presentation skills.

• Strong interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills. Situational awareness and ability to identify client concerns and risks and raise them to leadership.

• Ability to analyze and compile data and produce strategy documents and error-free client reports generated by you and serve as a reviewer of work done by others.

• Ability to work independently, a self-starter with exceptional time management and organizational skills; able to balance multiple priorities and projects.

• Ability to collaborate in a team environment, be professional even during adversity, and evoke positive engagement with colleagues, clients, partners, and prospects.

• Confident in evaluating and experimenting with new tools and technologies (e.g. SharePoint, Copilot, Power BI, Miro, AhaSlides!, Mentimeter).

• Proficient in MSFT Applications, Teams, Adobe PDF Writer, Outlook, Adobe Illustrator and InDesign a plus.

• Comfortable working across time zones, business lines, and offices.

• Ability to travel up to 30% of the time to client sites. Ability to work on-site as required; additional on-site time and travel may be required.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.
The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.
The compensation for the position is: $ 148,750.00 - $175,000.00Cushman & Wakefield is committed to equity in employment and our goal is to have a diverse, inclusive, and barrier-free workplace. If you are a person with a disability and need the job posting in an alternative format or any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process, please email your request to canadarecruitment@cushwake.com. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.Cushman & Wakefield s’engage à respecter l’équité en matière d’emploi. Notre objectif est d’offrir un milieu de travail diversifié, inclusif et exempt d’obstacles. Si vous êtes une personne handicapée et que vous avez besoin de recevoir l’offre d’emploi dans un autre format ou d’accéder à toute autre mesure d’adaptation au cours du processus d’embauche, veuillez soumettre votre demande par courriel à canadarecruitment@cushwake.com. Veuillez mentionner le titre de poste et le lieu de travail au moment de communiquer avec nous.INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”