Cushman & Wakefield

Senior Manager, Strategic Consulting

Cushman & Wakefield$140K — $165K *
Business Services
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent professional certification required
  • 7-10 years of relevant experience
  • Advanced expertise in consulting delivery and processes
  • Strong commercial real estate and business acumen
  • Deep understanding of Workplace & Transformation and Portfolio & Location integration
  • Advanced analytical capabilities using multiple tools
  • Demonstrated people leadership and coaching skills

Responsibilities

  • Conduct strategic analyses addressing evolving problems
  • Translate conflicting information into structured insights
  • Lead complex consulting engagements from start to finish
  • Define analytical structures for major deliverables
  • Serve as a senior advisor to client stakeholders
  • Facilitate executive presentations and decision-making workshops
  • Guide engagement resourcing and course corrections

Benefits

  • Leadership development opportunities
  • Opportunity to influence business strategy
  • Collaborative and inclusive culture
  • Access to advanced analytical tools and frameworks
  • Participation in high-impact client projects
  • Support for continuous learning and personal growth
Full Job Description

Job Title

Senior Manager, Strategic Consulting

Job Description Summary

The Strategic Consulting Senior Manager leads complex consulting engagements from framing through executive delivery, setting strategy, delivery approach, and quality standards to ensure analytically rigorous, actionable outcomes aligned to client objectives. As a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders, the role guides decision‑making, manages ambiguity, and owns engagement governance, staffing, risk, and cross‑functional coordination. Senior Managers also strengthen the consulting practice by developing talent, advancing methods and standards, and contributing to business development and client growth.

Senior Managers apply their expertise and experience to begin specializing in one of three practice areas:

Workplace Strategy: Develops workplace strategies aligning real estate, people, and business objectives, defining future‑state models and implementation roadmaps.

Transformation Strategy: Advises clients through complex real estate transformations, guiding organizational change and adoption of new ways of working.

Portfolio & Location Strategy: Leads portfolio and location strategy engagements, using scenario planning to inform long‑term real estate decisions and optimize risk, cost, and footprint.

Job Description

JobResponsibilities

Strategic Analysis & Insights

  • Conduct analyses that address ambiguous or evolving problem statements, drawing on prior experience to shape approach.

  • Translate incomplete or conflicting information into structured insights and strategic options.

  • Test scenarios and conclusions to strengthen confidence in analytical findings.

Client Delivery

  • Lead complex, multi-workstream consulting engagements from framing through executive delivery; set theengagementstrategy, workplan architecture, governance rhythm, and qualitystandards.

  • Direct end-to-endengagement execution by overseeing integrated workstreams, key milestones, and dependencies; ensure deliveryremainson time, on scope, andclient-ready.

  • Defineanalytical and storytelling structure for major deliverables; translate complex inputs into decision-ready outputs that clarify tradeoffs, implications, andactions.

  • Provide senior-level direction and escalation support to resolve delivery challenges andmaintainmomentum across workstreams.

  • Serve as a primary advisor to senior client stakeholders; guide ambiguity, shape decision processes, and influence alignment toward clear, actionableoutcomes.

  • Lead executive presentations andfacilitatestakeholder working sessionsandworkshops to drive decisions, alignment, andownership.

  • Coordinate crossfunctionalinternal and external partners to integrate inputs into a single cohesive client narrative and recommendation set.

Team Leadership

  • Coach and develop Managers, Senior Associates, and Associates through structured delegation, mentorship, andperformance feedback; raise analytic rigor and executive storytelling across theteam.

  • Provide leadership oversight across teams to ensure consistent application ofCushman & Wakefieldconsulting practices and standards;supportonboarding and capability building as needed.

  • Act as a role model forinclusive leadership, collaboration, and professional excellence.

Business Development

  • Shape proposals, solution designs, and pursuit strategies by defining the client problem framing,approachandmethodology, workplans, and deliverable storyboard.

  • Support account growth by identifyingsubsequentopportunities during delivery and connecting client needs to adjacent partners and servicelines.

Practice Management

  • Proactivelyidentify, escalate, and resolve risksandissues that threaten scope, timeline, or quality; implement course corrections across workstreams and stakeholders.

  • Set,enforce, and modelquality control standardsforlogic, accuracy, structure, and client readiness;establishreview rhythms that reduce rework andincreaseconsistency across deliverables.

  • Ownpostengagementpractice housekeeping, including archiving final work products and developingproposalreadycase studies and testimonials.

  • Guideengagement resourcing, sequencing, and delivery decisions to balance quality, risk, and client expectations across workstreams.

  • Define and refine repeatable methodologies, templates, anddeliveryplaybooks that improve consistency, scalability, andqualityacrossengagements.

  • Contribute to practice thought leadershipthrough developmentofpoints of view, insights, and internal knowledge assetsthatstrengthenmarket credibility and equips teams to deliver consistently.

Portfolio & Location Strategy (As applicable)

  • Lead portfolio and location strategyengagementsby directing scenario modeling and multi-factor evaluationsacrosscost, laborandmarket dynamics,risk,constraints, and growth considerationsto surfaceclear tradeoffs and recommendations.

  • Build executive-ready business cases and decision pathways by definingevaluationcriteria, governance checkpoints, and finaloptionsetsensuring recommendations are defensible, comparable, and ready for executive action.

Workplace and Transformation Strategy(As applicable)

  • Lead enterprise workplace strategy engagements bydefiningthe diagnostic approach, prioritizing hypotheses, and integrating multi-source data(utilization, experience, business needs)and stakeholder inputs into a cohesive future-stateworkplacestrategy.

  • Translatefindings into executive decisions byshapingthe narrative,defining theoptionset, andoutlining animplementationroadmap (what changes, why, sequence, and ownership),that isactionable andimplementation-ready.

  • Design and lead multi-phase change programs by defining thetransformationstrategy, governancemodel, andexecution roadmap across operating model changes,stakeholderengagement,communications, enablement, andadoption mechanisms.

  • Drivealignment andsustainedoutcomes by translating businessobjectivesinto apracticaltransformation plans,monitoringexecution, and adjusting interventions toembed new ways of working.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor27s degree or equivalent professional certificationrequired

  • 7-10 years of relevant experience

  • Advancedexpertisein consulting delivery and processes, including critically framing complex problems andtradeoffs, testing competing hypotheses, applying governance and risk management standards, and producinghighquality,executivereadyrecommendations

  • Advanced commercial real estate and business acumen, including pricing models, margin levers,utilizationmix, and portfolio health indicators, and how these shapeengagementlevelandportfolioleveltradeoffs

  • Advanced understanding of how Workplace & Transformation and Portfolio & Location capabilities integrate to deliver cohesive,enterpriselevelclient solutions

  • Advanced analytical capability, including research design, assumption testing, and analytical methods, as well as guiding analyses and translating complex,multisourceinputs into defensible,executivereadynarratives using AI, analytical, and presentation tools

  • Advanced experience leadingendtoendengagements, including managing scope, governance, scheduling, staffing, and quality, whilefacilitatingexecutive andcrossfunctionalalignment, guidingtradeoffs, and drivingdecisionmakingwithout formal authority

  • Demonstrated people leadership through delegation, coaching, feedback, and quality oversight to support individual performance, team effectiveness, and bench development

  • Intermediate business development capability, including translating client needs and value propositions into structured solution narratives, proposals, storyboards, and workplans

  • Applied experience developing and refining methods, templates, tools, and QA standards to improve delivery consistency, scalability, and speed

  • Advanced change planning capability, including designing and executing integrated engagement, communication, training, and reinforcement plans to support adoption of new ways of working




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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