Cushman & Wakefield

Marketing Manager

Cushman & Wakefield$97K — $115K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in journalism, marketing, or equivalent experience required
  • 5+ years of marketing, B2B proposal writing, or business development marketing experience
  • Commercial real estate or professional services experience preferred
  • Proven problem-solving ability and team leadership skills in a dynamic office environment
  • Strong time management, organizational, and prioritization skills
  • Self-motivated with the ability to take initiative and work collaboratively
  • Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and Adobe InDesign preferred

Responsibilities

  • Lead strategy sessions to define pursuit approaches
  • Develop compelling client narratives and win themes
  • Manage and mentor a team of Marketing Professionals
  • Assign workloads, manage deadlines, and ensure quality of deliverables
  • Collaborate with various stakeholders to align on strategy
  • Track pursuit activities and provide insights for strategic decisions
  • Lead trainings and support initiatives to improve team effectiveness

Benefits

  • Health, vision, and dental insurance
  • Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
  • Retirement savings plans
  • Life and disability insurance programs
  • Paid and unpaid time away from work
Full Job Description
Job Title
Marketing Manager

Job Description Summary
The Marketing Manager leads strategic business development pursuits across Cushman & Wakefield's Americas platform, partnering with fee earners, market leaders, service line partners, research, design, and marketing leadership to develop compelling, client-centric proposals and presentations. This role is responsible for managing pursuit strategy, content development, deliverable quality, team workload, and stakeholder alignment from kickoff through final delivery. The Marketing Manager also leads and develops a team of Marketing Professionals, ensuring consistent execution, elevated storytelling, strong brand alignment, and continuous improvement across the team.
Job Description

Responsibilities:

Pursuit Strategy & Storytelling-
  • Lead pursuit strategy sessions
  • Develop win themes, messaging, and client-centric narratives
  • Guide content strategy for proposals, RFPs, RFQs, presentations, and pitch materials


Team Leadership & Workload Management-
  • Manage and coach Marketing Professionals
  • Assign work, manage deadlines, and ensure quality control
  • Support development of team members through feedback, mentoring, and exposure to complex pursuits


Stakeholder Partnership-
  • Partner with brokers, fee earners, local marketing, research, operations, service line leaders, design, and executive leadership
  • Facilitate alignment across pursuit teams and ensure deliverables reflect business objectives
  • Navigate competing priorities and stakeholder feedback to align teams around a unified pursuit strategy and client story


Quality, Brand & Process Excellence-
  • Ensure deliverables follow C&W brand standards and best practices
  • Improve proposal/presentation content, process consistency, and tool adoption
  • Share best practices across ABD and related marketing teams


Reporting & Business Intelligence-
  • Track pursuit activity, trends, key wins, workload, and outcomes
  • Provide leadership with insights that inform staffing, service delivery, and business development strategy


Training & Strategic Initiatives-
  • Lead and support targeted trainings for marketing teams, brokers, and business stakeholders focused on business development best practices and pursuit excellence.
  • Partner on special projects, playbooks, process improvements, and strategic initiatives that enhance team effectiveness and drive continuous improvement.
  • Promote knowledge sharing, best-practice adoption, and the use of emerging technologies to strengthen business development capabilities across the organization.


Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience required (preferably in journalism or marketing)
  • 5+ years of experience in marketing, B2B proposal writing and/or business development marketing
  • Commercial real estate or professional services experience preferred
  • Strong ability to problem-solve with the ability to work effectively, efficiently, independently and as a team leader in a deadline-driven, dynamic office environment
  • Experience serving as primary marketing leader overseeing a team of marketing professionals
  • Strong time management, organizational, and prioritization skills. Must have the ability to balance multiple priorities and projects simultaneously.
  • Self-motivated approach with the ability to take initiative but works well in a group environment
  • Proficiency in Microsoft suite (including PowerPoint) and preferably Adobe Suite - InDesign
  • Ability to interface with and communicate with clients


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.

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: $ 97,750.00 - $115,000.00

About Cushman & Wakefield

Cushman & Wakefield plc is a global commercial real estate services firm. The company's corporate headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois. Cushman & Wakefield is among the world's largest commercial real estate services firms, with revenues of US$9.4 billion in 2021. The company operates from approximately 400 offices in 60 countries, has around 50,000 employees and manages about 4,100 million sq ft of commercial space. It is one of the "Big Three" commercial real estate services companies, alongside CBRE and JLL.
Learn more about Cushman & Wakefield
Size
50,000 employees
Market Cap
$2.6 billion
Industry
Net Income
-$220.5 million
Founded
1917
5 Year Trend
+8.6%
Revenue
$7.8 billion
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