Senior Manager, Strategic Consulting

Job TitleSenior Manager, Strategic ConsultingJob Description SummaryThe 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 DescriptionJob Responsibilities 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 the engagement strategy, workplan architecture, governance rhythm, and quality standards. Direct end-to-end engagement execution by overseeing integrated workstreams, key milestones, and dependencies; ensure delivery remains on time, on scope, and client-ready. Define analytical and storytelling structure for major deliverables; translate complex inputs into decision-ready outputs that clarify tradeoffs, implications, and actions. Provide senior-level direction and escalation support to resolve delivery challenges and maintain momentum across workstreams. Serve as a primary advisor to senior client stakeholders; guide ambiguity, shape decision processes, and influence alignment toward clear, actionable outcomes. Lead executive presentations and facilitate stakeholder working sessions and workshops to drive decisions, alignment, and ownership. Coordinate cross functional internal 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, and performance feedback; raise analytic rigor and executive storytelling across the team. Provide leadership oversight across teams to ensure consistent application of Cushman & Wakefield consulting practices and standards; support onboarding and capability building as needed. Act as a role model for inclusive leadership, collaboration, and professional excellence. Business Development Shape proposals, solution designs, and pursuit strategies by defining the client problem framing, approach and methodology, workplans, and deliverable storyboard. Support account growth by identifying subsequent opportunities during delivery and connecting client needs to adjacent partners and service lines. Practice Management Proactively identify, escalate, and resolve risks and issues that threaten scope, timeline, or quality; implement course corrections across workstreams and stakeholders. Set, enforce, and model quality control standards for logic, accuracy, structure, and client readiness; establish review rhythms that reduce rework and increase consistency across deliverables. Own postengagement practice housekeeping, including archiving final work products and developing proposalready case studies and testimonials. Guide engagement resourcing, sequencing, and delivery decisions to balance quality, risk, and client expectations across workstreams. Define and refine repeatable methodologies, templates, and delivery playbooks that improve consistency, scalability, and quality across engagements. Contribute to practice thought leadership through development of points of view, insights, and internal knowledge assets that strengthen market credibility and equips teams to deliver consistently. Portfolio & Location Strategy (As applicable) Lead portfolio and location strategy engagements by directing scenario modeling and multi-factor evaluations across cost, labor and market dynamics, risk, constraints, and growth considerations to surface clear tradeoffs and recommendations. Build executive-ready business cases and decision pathways by defining evaluation criteria, governance checkpoints, and final option sets—ensuring recommendations are defensible, comparable, and ready for executive action. Workplace and Transformation Strategy (As applicable) Lead enterprise workplace strategy engagements by defining the diagnostic approach, prioritizing hypotheses, and integrating multi-source data (utilization, experience, business needs) and stakeholder inputs into a cohesive future-state workplace strategy. Translate findings into executive decisions by shaping the narrative, defining the option set, and outlining an implementation roadmap (what changes, why, sequence, and ownership), that is actionable and implementation-ready. Design and lead multi-phase change programs by defining the transformation strategy, governance model, and execution roadmap across operating model changes, stakeholder engagement, communications, enablement, and adoption mechanisms. Drive alignment and sustained outcomes by translating business objectives into a practical transformation plans, monitoring execution, and adjusting interventions to embed new ways of working. Qualifications Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional certification required 7-10 years of relevant experience Advanced expertise in consulting delivery and processes, including critically framing complex problems and trade‑offs, testing competing hypotheses, applying governance and risk management standards, and producing high‑quality, executive‑ready recommendations Advanced commercial real estate and business acumen, including pricing models, margin levers, utilization mix, and portfolio health indicators, and how these shape engagement‑level and portfolio‑level trade‑offs Advanced understanding of how Workplace & Transformation and Portfolio & Location capabilities integrate to deliver cohesive, enterprise‑level client solutions Advanced analytical capability, including research design, assumption testing, and analytical methods, as well as guiding analyses and translating complex, multi‑source inputs into defensible, executive‑ready narratives using AI, analytical, and presentation tools Advanced experience leading end‑to‑end engagements, including managing scope, governance, scheduling, staffing, and quality, while facilitating executive and cross‑functional alignment, guiding trade‑offs, and driving decision‑making without 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 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: $ 140,250.00 - $165,000.00Cushman & 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 View phone number on click.appcast.io or email View email address on click.appcast.io. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”SummaryLocation: San Francisco, California, USA; New York, New York, USA; Dallas, Texas, USA; CW Site - USA - CA - San Diego - 12830 El Camino Real; CW Site - USA - MA - Boston - 125 High Street; Chicago, Illinois, USAType: Full time