West Regional Strategist

Retail, Office & Opportunity Pipeline

Act as the regional strategy point of coordination for West retail acquisitions, branch portfolio planning and opportunities to upgrade the estate. Support network planning by combining business briefs, customer and market intelligence, branch scorecards, site performance, competitor activity and landlord insight. Work closely with the broader Retail COE and specialist teams on customer experience, design, projects and portfolio performance lessons learned. Identify practical opportunities to improve estate quality, client experience, speed to market and business alignment, using the wider CRES and CW platform rather than trying to solve issues in isolation.

Delivery Integration & Regional Leadership

Work with Regional Asset Management, Transaction Management and Estate Management leaders to ensure strategy is executable and linked to delivery plans. Help prioritise and sequence regional activity so teams focus on the most valuable, urgent and decision-ready opportunities. Coach analysts and market teams in strategic thinking, analytics, business cases and simple, decision-ready storytelling. Track whether agreed strategic decisions are delivered as intended and use lessons learned to improve future planning, briefing and governance.

Qualifications & Requirements

Key Competencies

Strategic portfolio judgement: able to connect business needs, market dynamics, lease events and real estate choices across countries and cities. Analytical discipline: confident working with lease, occupancy, utilisation, cost, scorecard and market data, and able to turn data into a clear “so what”. Executive communication: able to write concise papers, tell the story behind the numbers and present recommendations to senior stakeholders. Stakeholder alignment: effective at working across SC business teams, CRES, CW market teams, brokers and specialist functions without creating unnecessary process. Delivery orientation: understands that strategy must lead to action, with clear ownership, timing, risks, dependencies and measures of success.

Experience And Education

Significant experience in corporate real estate strategy, portfolio advisory, asset management, occupier advisory, workplace strategy, retail network planning or management consulting. Proven ability to support multi-market portfolio reviews, market plans, business cases, acquisition or renewal strategies and governance papers in a regional environment. Strong understanding of office and retail banking portfolios, including utilisation, occupancy, lease events, site selection, market dynamics and business case development. Experience working with senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams, including transactions, estates, workplace, projects, finance, legal and local market advisers. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience; advanced degree, real estate qualification or relevant professional accreditation advantageous.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

This job operates in a professional office environment and requires close collaboration across regional, market-based and hub teams. The role routinely uses standard office technology and may require travel

across West region markets to support planning reviews, governance forums, stakeholder engagement and major portfolio initiatives.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to communicate with others and exchange accurate information; operate a computer and other office productivity machinery; move about the workplace; remain in a stationary position for 50% of the time; and extend hands and arms in any direction.

AAP/EEO STATEMENT

Cushman & Wakefield provides equal employment opportunity to all individuals regardless of their race, colour, creed, religion, gender, age, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by state, federal, or local law. Further, C&W takes affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed and employees during employment are treated without regard to any of these characteristics. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

Other Duties

This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Other duties, responsibilities and activities may change or be assigned at any time with or without notice.

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 organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment.

We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

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That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, gender, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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