Portfolio Strategy & GIS Manager (GIS)

Location: Remote, based in or associated with Creve Coeur, Missouri, USA

Salary: $127,500–$150,000 annually

Company

Cushman & Wakefield provides commercial real estate services and supports complex real estate portfolios, transaction management, workplace strategy, and portfolio planning.

What you will do

• Develop and maintain client-ready maps, dashboards, reporting solutions, geospatial products, and analytics using ArcGIS, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Support portfolio planning, portfolio optimization, location strategy, occupancy analysis, workplace strategy, transaction decision-making, and market analysis.
• Prepare and maintain Plans of Record, Practical Plans, Business Unit Plans, portfolio plans, site strategies, business cases, presentations, training materials, and documentation.
• Build data pipelines, transformation processes, data models, and integrations using internal systems, client platforms, commercial real estate technologies, and external sources.
• Lead working sessions with business partners, transaction managers, brokers, account teams, and clients to clarify requirements, test scenarios, and align portfolio priorities.
• Translate technical, market, portfolio, and business information into concise recommendations and identify opportunities for automation, standardization, and AI-enabled productivity improvements.

Requirements

• 3–7 years of experience in GIS, geospatial analytics, commercial real estate strategy, portfolio planning, business analytics, consulting, or a related field, with demonstrated strength in geospatial delivery.
• Experience developing maps, dashboards, reporting solutions, presentations, and analytical products for business and client stakeholders.
• Hands-on ArcGIS expertise, including ArcGIS Online, ESRI products, spatial data management, web maps, dashboards, and geospatial analysis.
• Strong Excel and data analytics skills, including structuring, validating, analyzing, and communicating complex portfolio and real estate data.
• Experience preparing, integrating, validating, and maintaining spatial and business data from multiple sources.
• Strong problem-solving, analytical thinking, spatial reasoning, data interpretation, and ability to connect findings to real estate strategy and recommended actions.
• Experience gathering requirements and working directly with business partners, transaction teams, client stakeholders, or senior account leaders.
• Ability to translate business requirements into maps, scenarios, technical solutions, portfolio strategies, and client-ready recommendations.
• Excellent written, verbal, facilitation, presentation, and client-facing communication skills.
• Microsoft Office Suite is required, including advanced Excel skills and proficiency in PowerPoint and Word; SQL and relational database technologies are also required.
• A bachelor’s degree in Data Analytics, Information Systems, Computer Science, Business, Geography/GIS, Engineering, Mathematics, Real Estate, Finance, Economics, or a related field is preferred; equivalent experience may be considered.

Nice to have

• Experience with Databricks, Delta Lake, Unity Catalog, or modern cloud analytics platforms.
• Experience with Power Query, Power BI, Looker, Tableau, Google Workspace, Python, or similar scripting languages.
• Experience in commercial real estate, corporate real estate, portfolio planning, location strategy, transaction management, workplace strategy, occupancy management, facilities management, or related business functions.
• Experience developing Plans of Record, Practical Plans, Business Unit Plans, portfolio plans, site strategies, market assessments, scenario analyses, business cases, or executive-level real estate recommendations.
• Experience in consulting, professional services, or client-facing environments, including facilitating discussions and presenting recommendations.
• Experience using AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, or similar technologies.
• Experience with enterprise reporting, operational analytics, portfolio analytics, workplace analytics, or business performance management.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaboration across business partners, transaction managers, brokers, clients, account leaders, and technical teams.
• Work focused on scalability, consistency, continuous improvement, process automation, and measurable business impact.
• Eligible employees may enroll in health, vision, dental, flexible spending, health savings, retirement savings, life, and disability insurance programs.
• Paid and unpaid time away from work is available to eligible employees.
• Compensation may vary based on geographic location, experience, qualifications, job type, business line, and applicable collective bargaining agreements.