Director, Spatial Data Management
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Director leading spatial data governance and workplace technology enablement for Cushman & Wakefield’s real estate services practice. Improving occupancy insights, standards, systems, and scalable client delivery across U.S. and Canadian operations.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and evolve the spatial data capability across the Space Management, Planning and Occupancy service line
- Define spatial data standards, governance frameworks, best practices, and repeatable quality and stewardship processes
- Drive alignment across clients, tools, regions, and service delivery models
- Translate spatial data discipline into business and client value, improving reporting, implementations, 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 measuring utilization and aligning workplaces to business needs
- Assess modernization and emerging AI opportunities to improve workflows, reporting, and client value
- Partner with technology teams on workplace technology implementations, re-implementations, and ongoing enablement
- Translate business needs into data, process, and platform requirements
- Refresh and document playbooks, methodologies, process maps, and guidance for space allocation, planning, audits, utilization, and live occupancy
- Lead conversations about process, accountability, decision rights, and consistency to improve service delivery
- 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, practice development, and client growth initiatives
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 connecting technical or operational work to business and client outcomes
- Experience partnering with technology teams on 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, reusable standards, workflows, and guidance
- Comfort leading conversations about process, governance, accountability, and ways of working
- Experience using occupancy, utilization, or spatial data for forecasting, planning, and real estate decision-making
- Ability to influence across functions and mature a growing capability area
- Ability to work across regions, cultures, and time zones
- 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 workplace technology trends, data requirements, and AI applications
- 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
- Paid time away from work
- Unpaid time away from work
- Competitive pay
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