Senior Consulting Manager

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Costa Mesa, CA, USA
In-Office
128K-150K Annually
Senior level
Real Estate
The Role
Leads strategic consulting projects and key client relationships across workplace and real estate strategy. Responsibilities include business development, client presentations, facilitation, strategy formulation and execution, team leadership, data analysis, report development, thought leadership, risk mitigation, and reviewing client deliverables. The role targets $600,000 in annual sales, supports client transformation initiatives, collaborates across regions and business lines, and requires travel to client sites up to 30% of the time.
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Job Title

Senior Consulting Manager

Job Description Summary

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.
We currently have a Senior Manager open in the practice to support the Americas region. For this position, Cushman & Wakefield will offer a competitive salary and benefits package, commensurate with regional market expectations and at a level consistent within C&W’s network of peer professionals. This role directly supports client transformation initiatives by aligning workplace strategy with organizational goals.

Job Description

PRINCIPLE RESPONSIBILITIES

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

  • This role reports to the Americas Lead of Strategic Consulting.
  • The individual will manage projects and key client relationships and work with other senior leaders with subject matter expertise in workplace strategy and change management in the Strategic Consulting practice, including contributing to thought leadership and client deliverables.  
  • You will be expected and encouraged to proactively build and maintain relationships with our most important clients and prospects, generate new business opportunities in partnership with other C&W leaders, and contribute to the delivery of high-impact solutions with a sales objective of $600,000/year.
  • The position requires professional presentation skills, extensive facilitation experience, analytical, written, and verbal communication skills, along with direct industry experience, are essential.
  • This role offers exposure to high-profile clients and opportunities for professional growth and advancement within the Strategic Consulting team. 

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 externals 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. 




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: $ 127,500.00 - $150,000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at Cushman & Wakefield, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email [email protected]. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”

Skills Required

  • Minimum 15 years of experience in a similar or complementary role
  • Key project experience in workplace or real estate strategy decision-making
  • Experience leading high-performing teams
  • Experience partnering with sophisticated client teams
  • Experience navigating relationships with external partners
  • Professional presentation and extensive facilitation experience
  • Strong written, oral, analytical, and graphic presentation skills
  • Strong interpersonal communication and relationship-building skills
  • High emotional intelligence, leadership, problem-solving, and risk-mitigation skills
  • Ability to analyze and compile data and produce strategy documents and error-free client reports
  • Ability to review work completed by others
  • Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities and projects
  • Ability to collaborate professionally in a team environment
  • Proficiency with Microsoft applications
  • Ability to work across time zones, business lines, and offices
  • Ability to travel up to 30% and work on-site as required
  • Experience with SharePoint, Copilot, Power BI, Miro, AhaSlides, or Mentimeter
  • Proficiency with Adobe Illustrator and InDesign

Cushman & Wakefield Compensation & Benefits Highlights

The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Cushman & Wakefield and has not been reviewed or approved by Cushman & Wakefield.

  • Retirement Support A 401(k) with company match is consistently referenced as part of the package. Feedback suggests this provides a solid baseline for long‑term savings across many U.S. roles.
  • Leave & Time Off Breadth Paid time off and company holidays are regularly highlighted and described as a meaningful part of the offering. Feedback suggests time‑off benefits add tangible value alongside base pay.
  • Parental & Family Support Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers, plus backup care and wellbeing resources, are described as available. These offerings indicate a supportive approach to family needs in many roles.

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
53,000 Employees
Year Founded: 1917

What We Do

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners. Cushman & Wakefield is among the largest real estate services firms with approximately 53,000 employees in 400 offices and 60 countries. In 2019, the firm had revenue of $8.8 billion across core services of property, facilities and project management, leasing, capital markets, valuation and other services.

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