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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.

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