Senior Consulting Manager

Principle Responsibilities

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

• Manage projects and key client relationships
• Work with other senior leaders with subject matter expertise in workplace strategy and change management in the Strategic Consulting practice
• Contribute to thought leadership and client deliverables
• Proactively build and maintain relationships with our most important clients and prospects
• Generate new business opportunities in partnership with other C&W leaders
• Contribute to the delivery of high-impact solutions with a sales objective of $600,000/year

Job Description

This role reports to the Americas Lead of Strategic Consulting.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 external 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

Compensation

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: $ 127,500.00 - $150,000.00

About the Role

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.

Benefits

Cushman & Wakefield also 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. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Qualifications

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 external 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