Global Real Estate Director (Aerospace and Defense)
About The Position
Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Global Real Estate Director to support an Aerospace & Defense client account. The role partners closely with the client’s Global Real Estate team to turn portfolio, transaction, and operational data into insights that inform strategic decisions across a large, diverse global portfolio. The successful candidate combines business intelligence and storytelling skills with hands-on commercial real estate transaction experience. The position analyzes portfolio performance, tracks critical lease and transaction milestones, supports strategic planning, and develops executive-ready dashboards, reports, and presentations. It helps identify opportunities, reduce risk, optimize the portfolio, and support real estate decisions. The role also engages business stakeholders to understand short- and long-term needs and shape portfolio strategy aligned with business success, efficiency, and cost reduction. The position requires a related bachelor’s degree, commercial real estate experience, advanced Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint skills, and experience with BI visualization and executive-level reporting. Travel may be required up to 25%. The stated compensation range is $144,500 to $170,000, subject to applicable factors. Eligible employees may enroll in benefit programs that generally include health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending and health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life and disability insurance, and paid and unpaid time away from work.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field.
- Commercial real estate experience.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Experience with BI visualization and executive-level reporting.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
- Highly analytical and detail-oriented; comfortable working across large, complex datasets.
- Able to turn analysis into actionable recommendations.
- Effective in a fast-paced, client-facing environment and demonstrates utmost integrity.
- Strong communication skills and ability to influence through clear, polished deliverables.
- Collaborative and able to work across cross-functional teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting lease transactions, portfolio reporting, and real estate analytics.
- Familiarity with property management, real estate development, tenant representation, facilities, construction project management, IWMS, CMMS, or similar real estate systems.
- Notary Public Commission, or ability to obtain one within 3 months of hire.
Responsibilities
- Analyze real estate portfolio, transaction, and operational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Design and deliver dashboards, reports, and executive presentations that translate complex data into clear, consistent, automated business insights.
- Build data-driven narratives to support stakeholder alignment and decision-making.
- Support strategic research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and ad hoc reporting.
- Monitor portfolio health using property and operational data, including occupancy, lease expirations, rent roll accuracy, delinquency, maintenance activity, CapEx, and tenant improvement allowance spend.
- Support portfolio optimization by evaluating performance and helping implement plans aligned to client objectives.
- Assist with internal capital planning, budgeting, and business case development.
- Review and interpret financial information to support strategy and reporting.
- Track transaction activity and critical lease dates, including expirations, renewal notice deadlines, and tenant improvement timelines.
- Maintain accurate transaction records, files, and reporting databases.
- Coordinate documentation flow and communications among landlords, client stakeholders, brokers, and legal counsel.
- Engage with landlords and support lease transaction negotiations and execution.
- Present transaction activity and performance updates to the client.
- Assist Portfolio Managers in ensuring required client and broker engagement documentation is completed accurately and on time.
- Build relationships within the business, manage information exchange, and shape Global Real Estate insights to business needs.
- Engage business stakeholders to assess short- and long-term needs and communicate them to Cushman & Wakefield and client teams to inform strategy.
- Shape a future-state portfolio that enables business success and drives efficiency and cost reduction.
Benefits
- Eligible employees may enroll in health insurance.
- Eligible employees may enroll in vision insurance.
- Eligible employees may enroll in dental insurance.
- Flexible spending accounts.
- Health savings accounts.
- Retirement savings plans.
- Life insurance programs.
- Disability insurance programs.
- Paid and unpaid time away from work.
- Competitive pay.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
