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Portfolio Strategy Lead

Cushman & Wakefield
Austin, TX Full Time
POSTED ON 10/20/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 11/19/2026

Job Title

Portfolio Strategy Lead

Job Description Summary

Job Description

The purpose of this position is to lead the achievement of strategic goals and deliverables for multiple clients within a large, complex, and geographically diverse real estate portfolios.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

Proactively support the account team in client engagements to ensure excellence and consistency.

Assists in solving complex problems; takes a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions

Provide service excellence by understanding key client business issues, supplementing standard techniques and tools with innovative approaches, evaluating, and validating analysis and developing/delivering recommendations

Support the delivery team and their work across multiple workstreams, and own the day-to-day relationships necessary for delivery excellence

Technical presenter - Conceptualizes the framework for collecting data, analyzing the data, and translating it into a story

Innovative-inquisitive, challenges status quo, thinks outside the box; researcher motivated to become thought leader

Designs and delivers frameworks to proactively facilitate senior client leadership workshops for strategic development and other decisioning

Subject matter expertise - designs integrated workplace/human experience/portfolio solutions in support of business objectives

Financial acumen - designs the framework for financial modelling and translates the data analyzed into a story


Qualifications

Must have experience in areas such as: Portfolio Optimization, Cost Optimization, Portfolio Strategy related to Mergers & Acquisitions, Workplace Strategy, etc

Extensive experience and expertise using structured consulting methodology related to scoping, framing, and delivering consulting engagements that delight FORTUNE1000 clients

Candidates with Big 4-type Consulting background are strongly encouraged to apply

Experience influencing and relationship management at the senior executive level

Possess strong analytical skills and the ability to develop conclusions and recommendations

Ability to multi-task and work both in a team and independently in a high-pressure deadline driven environment

Demonstrated ability to manage multiple and complex matters daily

Capacity to deal with ambiguity as well as address and solve complex problems

Exceptional communication skills - both written and verbal

Possess excellent customer service and interpersonal relationship skills


Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university.

8 years of experience successfully leading and delivering consulting engagements for occupier clients related to Commercial Real Estate Strategy


Certificates and/or Licenses

Real estate license (where required by state law) Professional certification, professional designations (e.g. BCCR, CCIM, CPM, MAI) and/or graduate level training in commercial real estate is desirable.




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: $ 161,500.00 - $190,000.00

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 emailAccommodations@cushwake.com. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

INCO: "Cushman & Wakefield"

Salary : $161,500 - $190,000

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