Director, Spatial Data Management

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $153k - $180k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Cushman & Wakefield

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10,000+ employees

Founded 1917

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

🏗️ Construction

Consulting • Healthcare • Construction

Cushman & Wakefield is a global leader in commercial real estate services, providing a wide range of services including agency leasing, asset services, capital markets, global occupier services, project and development services, tenant representation, and valuation and advisory for various industries such as logistics and industrial, multifamily, retail, life sciences, data centers, and healthcare. The company is committed to driving forward for clients, colleagues, and communities with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as environmental, social, and governance principles. Operating in over 60 countries with 52,000 professionals, Cushman & Wakefield consistently delivers insights and research, such as market reports and sustainability efforts.

📋 Description

• Lead the spatial data capability. • Define and evolve spatial data standards, governance frameworks, and best practices. • Create repeatable processes for data quality, stewardship, audit readiness, and consistency. • Drive alignment across clients, tools, regions, and service delivery models. • Translate spatial data discipline into practical business value for clients and the practice. • Improve reporting integrity, implementation quality, scalability, and decision support. • Use spatial and occupancy data to support predictive, data-driven decisions based on current occupancy models. • Optimize, implement, and manage advanced spatial systems that measure utilization and align workplace environments to business needs. • Assess modernization and emerging AI opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, or client value. • Partner with technology teams on workplace technology implementations, re-implementations, and ongoing enablement. • Translate business needs into data, process, and platform requirements. • Ensure data standards and governance align to implementation realities. • Refresh and document playbooks, methodologies, process maps, and guidance for space allocation, planning, audits, utilization, and live occupancy. • Build frameworks that improve repeatability, quality, and consistency across the practice. • Lead conversations about process, accountability, decision rights, and consistency to improve service delivery at scale. • Advise clients on spatial data integrity and modern space management practices. • Connect occupancy, utilization, and planning data to strategic workplace and portfolio decisions. • Contribute to thought leadership, reusable content, and practice development. • Identify opportunities to strengthen service delivery and support client growth.

🎯 Requirements

• Significant experience in Spatial Data Management, workplace data, occupancy data, or related space management disciplines. • Strong experience in data governance, data consistency, stewardship, standards development, and quality control. • Experience applying data discipline through a business lens, connecting technical or operational work to business and client outcomes. • Experience partnering with technology teams to support system implementation, platform enablement, or business-to-technology translation. • Experience supporting workplace, occupancy, reservation, IWMS, or related workplace technology platforms. • Strong client-facing communication, collaboration, and leadership skills. • Experience creating playbooks, methodologies, standards, process documentation, or best-practice content. • Appreciation for documentation and creating clear, scalable, and reusable standards, workflows, and guidance. • Comfort leading conversations about process, governance, accountability, and ways of working. • Experience using occupancy, utilization, or spatial data to support forecasting, planning, and real estate decision-making. • Ability to influence across functions and mature a growing capability area. • Ability to work effectively across regions, cultures, and time zones in support of a globally connected practice. • Preferred: Experience with major occupancy, reservation, IWMS, or space management platforms. • Preferred: Experience supporting re-implementation or workplace modernization efforts. • Preferred: Experience developing thought leadership content, case studies, or practice materials. • Preferred: Familiarity with evolving workplace platform technology trends, including AI opportunities. • Preferred: Experience supporting growth initiatives, proposal coordination, or operational enablement. • Preferred: Experience supporting global or multi-region clients, teams, or service delivery models.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Vision insurance • Dental insurance • Flexible spending accounts • Health savings accounts • Retirement savings plans • Life insurance • Disability insurance programs • Paid time away from work • Unpaid time away from work