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Senior Manager, Strategic ConsultingJob 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.Job Description
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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
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