Senior Consulting Manager

Job Title Senior Consulting Manager 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 client occupiers. We currently have a Senior Manager 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.

PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES The Senior Manager 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 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 15 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.  Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an