Portfolio Strategy Lead

About the role

The purpose of this position is to lead the achievement of strategic goals and deliverables for multiple clients within a large, complex, and geographically diverse real estate portfolios.

Responsibilities

• Proactively support the account team in client engagements to ensure excellence and consistency.
• Assists in solving complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
• Provide service excellence by understanding key client business issues, supplementing standard techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating, and validating analysis and developing/delivering recommendations.
• Support the delivery team and their work across multiple workstreams, and own the day-to-day relationships necessary for delivery excellence.
• Technical presenter - Conceptualizes the framework for collecting data, analyzing the data, and translating it into a story.
• Innovative-inquisitive, challenges status quo, thinks outside the box; researcher motivated to become thought leader.
• Designs and delivers frameworks to proactively facilitate senior client leadership workshops for strategic development and other decisioning.
• Subject matter expertise - designs integrated workplace/human experience/portfolio solutions in support of business objectives.
• Financial acumen - designs the framework for financial modelling and translates the data analyzed into a story.

Qualifications

• Must have experience in areas such as: Portfolio Optimization, Cost Optimization, Portfolio Strategy related to Mergers & Acquisitions, Workplace Strategy, etc.
• Extensive experience and expertise using structured consulting methodology related to scoping, framing, and delivering consulting engagements that delight FORTUNE1000 clients.
• Candidates with Big 4-type Consulting background are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Experience influencing and relationship management at the senior executive level.
• Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to develop conclusions and recommendations.
• Ability to multi-task and work both in a team and independently in a high-pressure deadline driven environment.
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and complex matters daily.
• Capacity to deal with ambiguity as well as address and solve complex problems.
• Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal.
• Possess excellent customer service and interpersonal relationship skills.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university. 8+ years of experience successfully leading and delivering consulting engagements for occupier clients related to Commercial Real Estate Strategy.

Certificates and Licenses

Real estate license (where required by state law). Professional certification, professional designations (e.g. BCCR, CCIM, CPM, MAI) and/or graduate level training in commercial real estate is desirable.

Benefits

Cushman & Wakefield provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work.

Pay

The compensation for the position is: $161,500.00 - $190,000.00.