EVP, Strategy & Consulting, Occupier Services
Colliers · Boston, MA · 5 days ago
RemoteRemoteBusiness Development$300k–$350k/yrFull-time
Client Leadership & Revenue Generation
- Serve as a trusted advisor to occupier broker-led clients, leading strategic conversations tied to business objectives and financial outcomes.
- Partner directly with occupier brokers and producers to originate, shape, and win new business.
- Led the strategy and analytics components of high-value pursuits, pitches, and client engagements.
- Translate complex client challenges into clear, compelling, and financially grounded recommendations.
- Drive revenue growth through increased win rates, deeper client relationships, and expanded service offerings.
Occupier Strategy & Advisory
- Lead integrated advisory solutions across portfolio strategy and optimization; workforce and labor analytics (in coordination with workforce analytics & Location Strategy); location strategy, site selection, and location intelligence (in coordination with workforce analytics & location strategy); incentives negotiation and economic development.
- Guide clients through multi-market, high-impact decision-making processes.
- Align real estate strategy with broader business goals, including growth, cost optimization, and talent access.
- Ensure strategies are actionable and directly tied to transaction outcomes and execution.
Financial Leadership & Deal Structuring
- Lead the development of financially grounded strategies and business cases that support complex occupier decisions.
- Provide executive-level guidance on cost, capital, and location trade-offs, ensuring recommendations are economically sound and actionable.
- Play a key role in location incentives strategy and negotiations, maximizing value for clients.
- Partner with Capital Markets, Finance, and Valuation teams to strengthen deal positioning and execution.
Brokerage Enablement & Deal Integration
- Act as a strategic extension of occupier brokerage teams, enhancing deal strategy and client positioning.
- Embed within key pursuits to deliver differentiated, insight-led solutions that improve win probability.
- Provide brokers with data-driven narratives and financial clarity to support negotiations.
- Collaborate with agency leasing teams, where appropriate, by providing forward-looking insight into occupier demand and decision drivers.
- Collaborate with Workforce Analytics & Location Strategy and other advisory leaders to incorporate labor, talent, and location insights into deal strategy and client recommendations.
- Collaborate with adjacent advisory teams to bring multi-disciplinary insight into pursuits, strengthening client solutions and competitive positioning.
Integrated Advisory Capabilities
- Activate and integrate a suite of advisory capabilities—both within Consulting & Strategy and across adjacent functions (e.g., Supply Chain Solutions, Workplace Strategy, Space & Occupancy Planning, and Workforce Analytics & Location Strategy)—to deliver holistic, insight-led solutions.
- Align these capabilities into a cohesive client narrative that drives decision-making and transaction outcomes.
- Ensure capabilities are deployed strategically within pursuits, not sold as standalone services.
- Partner across service lines to align strategies, avoid fragmentation, and deliver a seamless client experience across the full occupier lifecycle.
- Continuously refine and evolve offerings to reflect market trends, client demand, and competitive differentiation.
Thought Leadership & Innovation
- Define and lead a forward-looking advisory agenda centered on how occupiers make decisions across portfolio, workforce, and location strategy.
- Translate market trends—including labor dynamics, hybrid work, cost pressures, incentives competition, and workplace strategy evolution—into actionable client insights.
- Develop proprietary frameworks and data-driven models that differentiate the firm in location decision-making, workforce strategy, portfolio optimization, broader occupier advisory services.
- Identify emerging areas of opportunity (e.g., flexible work, supply chain transformation, sector-specific trends) and incorporate them into client solutions where relevant.
- Position the firm as a leader in financially driven, analytics-enabled real estate strategy, not just traditional consulting.
- Represent the firm externally as a thought leader and industry voice.
- Develop white papers, reports, and client-facing collateral in partnership with Marketing to communicate proprietary insights, frameworks, and market trends, supporting both client engagement and firm positioning.
Leadership of Strategy Verticals
- Provide strategic oversight to team.
- Partner closely with the SVP, Workforce Analytics & Location Strategy to ensure alignment on client priorities, pursuits, and integrated solution delivery.
- Integrate outputs from Portfolio Strategy and Workforce Analytics & Location Strategy into a cohesive, client-ready narrative that supports decision-making and deal execution.
- Maintain a strong focus on quality, speed, and real-world impact, avoiding unnecessary complexity or process.
Revenue Accountability & Market Impact
- Drive revenue growth within the Occupier platform by influencing pipeline development, win rates, deal size and complexity.
- Identify and prioritize high-impact opportunities and strategic accounts.
- Contribute to pricing and engagement strategy based on value delivered and market positioning.
- Strengthen the firm’s reputation as a leader in strategy-led, analytics-driven real estate advisory.