Marketing Manager

Cushman & Wakefield; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 89,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Marketing Manager to lead a group of embedded marketers dedicated to Broker Teams within Capital Markets Property Marketing. You will coach and empower professionals, align marketing efforts with firm-wide standards, and drive high-quality deliverables for strategic opportunities.

You will collaborate with Brokers and real estate professionals to optimize project management, training, templates, and resources, while ensuring consistent, best-in-class marketing

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 7+ years of marketing experience—real estate, agency, architecture, or commercial construction preferred.
• Experience managing a distributed or decentralized team.
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite.
• Experience leading and managing a team.
• Familiarity with a project management tool.
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills.
• Ability to balance day-to-day priorities with firm-wide standards and processes.

Responsibilities

• Manage a team of embedded marketers, each dedicated full-time to a Broker Team, serving as their people manager and coach.
• Provide day-to-day coaching and guidance to embedded marketers, helping them prioritize, problem-solve, and work through roadblocks.
• Equip embedded marketers with resources, templates, and training; identify gaps for upskilling.
• Serve as primary escalation and advisor for complex property marketing projects.
• Establish and reinforce consistent marketing processes, brand standards, and quality benchmarks.
• Conduct regular one-on-ones to assess workload, performance, and job satisfaction.
• Facilitate knowledge-sharing of best practices and templates across desks.
• Own performance management, goal-setting, and career development for embedded marketers.

Skills

Bachelor's degree

Marketing leadership

Team management

Adobe Creative Suite

Project management tools

Coaching & mentoring

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Job description

Job Title

Marketing Manager

Job Description Summary

As a key member of the Capital Markets Property Marketing team, the Marketing Manager is responsible for leading and developing a team of embedded marketers — marketing professionals who sit directly with, and are dedicated full-time to, a specific Broker Team. The Marketing Manager coaches each embedded marketer and equips them with the guidance, tools, and resources they need to work efficiently and effectively, ensuring their assigned Broker Team receives best-in-class project management, creative oversight, and day-to-day marketing support in pursuit of new Capital Markets opportunities and in marketing assignments Cushman & Wakefield has been awarded. The Marketing Manager works within a fast-paced environment with Cushman & Wakefield real estate professionals, the properties and owners they represent, and the broader Property Marketing organization to help embedded marketers deliver industry-best marketing deliverables and outcomes for their dedicated Broker Teams.

Job Description

Responsibilities:

• Manage a team of embedded marketers, each dedicated full-time to a specific Broker Team, serving as their people manager and coach while growing their project management abilities and marketing skillset

• Provide day-to-day coaching and guidance to embedded marketers, helping them prioritize, problem-solve, and work through roadblocks so they can operate efficiently and effectively within their Broker Team

• Equip embedded marketers with the resources, tools, templates, and training they need to do their jobs well, and proactively identify gaps where additional support or upskilling would improve their output

• Serve as the primary point of escalation and advisor for embedded marketers on the most significant or complex property marketing projects, coaching them through approach and execution rather than taking projects over

• Establish and reinforce consistent marketing processes, brand standards, and quality benchmarks across all embedded marketers, even though each sits within a different Broker Team

• Conduct regular one-on-ones and check-ins with embedded marketers to assess workload, performance, and job satisfaction, and to coach them on areas for improvement

• Facilitate knowledge-sharing among embedded marketers so best practices, templates, and lessons learned are shared and applied consistently, rather than staying siloed within a single desk

• Own performance management, goal-setting, and career development for embedded marketers, using coaching to close skill gaps and build toward greater independence and efficiency

• Communicate with Broker Team leadership on embedded marketer performance, capacity, and project outcomes, either through regular check-ins or other channels

• Recruit, onboard, and place new embedded marketers with Broker Teams, setting them up with the training and resources to ramp up quickly

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree

• 7+ years of marketing experience—real estate, agency, architecture, or commercial construction experience preferred

• Experience managing a distributed or decentralized team, ideally marketers or other professionals embedded within different business units or client-facing teams

• Familiarity with the Adobe Creative Suite

• Experience leading and managing a team - must be an effective, results-oriented communicator and leader with a focus on team development

• Familiarity with a project management tool is highly preferred

• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a track record of helping team members work more efficiently and effectively

• Ability to balance the day-to-day priorities of individual Broker Teams with firm-wide marketing standards and processes

• Ability to independently achieve successful outcomes on all activities with minimal supervision

• Ability to manage multiple embedded marketers and Broker Team relationships at once in a fast-paced environment

• Excellent written, oral communication skills and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to work across different audiences, personalities, and experience levels

• Strong relationship management skills and ability to successfully partner with both internal and external stakeholders and project participants

• Self-motivated but works well in group environment

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 89,250.00 - $105,000.00

Cushman & Wakefield is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

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