Associate Director

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About the Role:

• Lead end-to-end commercial leasing transactions across office, retail, land, and industrial asset classes.

• Drive client engagement strategies, ensuring alignment with their long-term real estate goals.

• Manage a high-performing team, overseeing planning, staffing, and operational delivery.

• Build and maintain strong relationships with clients, industry stakeholders, and internal leadership.

• Execute financial evaluations and deal structuring, including NPV, IRR, and ROI analysis.

• Represent the organization in key industry forums and drive business development efforts.

• Ensure legal and policy compliance in all leasing transactions and client engagements.

• Collaborate across service lines (Project Management, Facilities, Finance) for integrated delivery.

About You:

• 12+ years of industry experience in real estate leasing or related fields.

• MBA or equivalent educational background preferred.

• Strong negotiation, influencing, and stakeholder management skills.

• Demonstrated ability to manage large teams and complex leasing portfolios.

• Proficient in financial analysis, client presentations, and team leadership.

• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.

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.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

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, sex, 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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