Portfolio Strategy Director

5 days ago

Kansas City, MO, United States Cushman & Wakefield Full time
Job Title
Portfolio Strategy Director

Job Description Summary
As a member of Cushman & Wakefield's Portfolio Advisory Group, the Portfolio Strategy Director will be dedicated to one or more of Cushman & Wakefield's most dynamic client accounts. In this role, you will collaborate closely with peers and the account team to support the client's strategic real estate vision. The Portfolio Strategy Director will embody our team philosophy "Client First, Insight Always, Execution Excellence", ensuring every deliverable reflects the team's commitment to innovation, collaboration, and measurable impact.
This role owns stakeholder reporting and the development of executive-ready business case memos, connecting data and perspectives across transactions, workplace experience, facilities, and physical security. You'll translate complex inputs into clear options and recommendations that drive timely, confident decisions.
Job Description

What you'll do
  • Stakeholder reporting & governance
    • In partnership with our Data & Analytics team, oversee regular and ad-hoc portfolio reporting, including trend analysis, critical dates and portfolio opportunities.
    • Maintain decision logs, risks/dependencies, and action trackers for steering committees and senior forums.
  • Business case development
    • Lead end-to-end drafting of real estate business case memos (renewals, consolidations, new sites, dispositions, capital projects). This requires diligent and proactive coordination of intelligence from a wide range of stakeholders and functional partners. The right candidate will have an aggressively proactive attitude and grace with collecting critical information from a wide range of parties efficiently.
    • Structure memos using a consistent framework and consistently improving processes to gain time efficiency and standardization, where practical.
    • Partner with Finance on financial modeling impacts and budget implications.
  • Cross-functional portfolio strategy
    • Synthesize inputs from Transactions, Workplace/Occupancy Planning, FM, and Physical Security to align on site strategy and decision making readiness.
    • Integrate utilization, business growth forecasts, and security risk overlays into portfolio scenarios.
    • Support site selection criteria, pipeline prioritization, scenario planning, and sequencing of moves.
  • Data, insights & tooling
    • Own the accuracy and storytelling of portfolio data; define KPIs and data standards.
    • Coordinate with leads from Transactions, Design & Construction, Workplace, and Security on implications to program, cost, and timeline.
    • Draft crisp leadership updates, FAQs, and stakeholder communications for key decisions and milestones.
Background
  • 7-10 years in corporate real estate strategy, management consulting, portfolio planning, or finance/FP&A supporting real estate decisions.
  • Proven track record writing executive business case memos and presenting recommendations to senior leadership.
  • Financial modeling skills is highly preferred but not required.
  • Ability to synthesize diverse stakeholder inputs (Transactions, Workplace, FM, Physical Security) into an integrated point of view.
  • Advanced storytelling and comfort in visualization tools like PowerBI or Tableau is highly preferred.
  • Comfort with portfolio data tools (e.g., IWMS/lease admin platforms) and disciplined data hygiene & data architecture.
  • Excellent project management, prioritization, and meeting facilitation; thrives in ambiguity and fast decision cycles.


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: $ 174,250.00 - $205,000.00

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

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