Corporate Real Estate Advisor (Secondment Role)

Job Title

Corporate Real Estate Advisor (Secondment Role)

Job Description Summary

Provides professional project management experience to designated projects and assignments at a client site, campus, and facilities.

Job Description

ABOUT CUSHMAN & WAKEFIELD: Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global real estate services firm that delivers exceptional value for real estate occupiers and owners.

OUR PURPOSE: We make an impact. Our work creates meaningful value for our clients, our business, our shareholders, our people, our communities and world.

ABOUT THE ROLE: The Corporate Real Estate (CRE) Strategy & Advisory Specialist is responsible for delivering analytical, strategic, and operational support across the full Corporate Real Estate (CRE) lifecycle. This role supports key client stakeholders by providing insights, building business cases, supporting negotiations, and ensuring delivery assurance for complex CRE decisions across the portfolio.

This role will be responsible to manage:

End-to-End CRE Lifecycle Expertise

• Provide strategic advisory across the full CRE lifecycle including strategy development, demand forecasting, transactions, leasing, negotiations, make-good planning, project controls, delivery oversight, and change management.
• Ensure recommendations are practical, complaint, actionable, and aligned to business needs.
• Support decision making by integrating analytics, operational input, and risk considerations.

2. Portfolio & Market Insights

• Analyze lease events, market benchmarks, rental trends, incentive norms, and regulatory requirements.
• Monitor supply–demand dynamics to identify risks, opportunities, and decision windows.
• Deliver insights that help optimize portfolio performance and mitigate exposure.

3. Scenario Modelling & Business Case Development

•  Support client Transactions Team’s financial modeling and business cases to support CRE decisions including:
  total cost of ownership (TCO), net present value (NPV), sensitivity analyses, and risk/benefit assessments.
• Provide structured analysis and recommendations to support executive-level decision-making.
• Collaborate with finance, operations, strategy, project design & delivery to validate assumptions and scenarios.

4. Leasing & Negotiation Support

• Support stakeholder engagement and negotiations to ensure optimal commercial and operational outcomes.

5. Project Controls & Delivery Assurance

• Review feasibility studies, cost plans, schedules, risk logs, and dependencies for CRE projects.
• Evaluate delivery models and ensure execution is aligned with strategic portfolio and business objectives.
• Provide governance oversight to ensure decisions are grounded in achievable delivery pathways.

To be successful in this role you will have:

Professional Experience:

• 8+Years of relevant experience into the field.
• Experience in CRE strategy, leasing, portfolio management, or financial modeling.
• Strong analytical skills including proficiency in financial modelling, scenario analysis, and business case development.
• Understanding of real estate markets, regulatory requirements, and transaction processes.
• Ability to partner with multiple stakeholders and support high-impact decision making.
• Strong communication and presentation capabilities.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?

As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from;

• Being part of a growing global company;
• Career development and a promote from within culture;
• An organization committed to Diversity and Inclusion

Organisational Core capabilities:

• DRIVEN: We celebrate determination. Our intrinsic motivation, proactiveness, and service attitude outperform expectations for our colleagues, clients, and communities.
• RESILIENT: We tackle challenges with grit. We navigate uncertainty with courage and adapt to deliver impactful outcomes.
• INCLUSIVE: We value curiosity and collaboration. We seek out different perspectives, listen actively and turn feedback into solutions.
• VISIONARY:
  We foster forward thinking.  Our continuous quest for improvement is guided by our desire to design a better future for our colleagues, clients and communities.
• ENTREPRENEURIAL:
  We act like owners. We are resourceful, creative, and agile, and we balance competing needs to create impactful solutions for the real estate industry.

 

 

 

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