Sr. Transaction Manager

Cushman & Wakefield; United States; On-site; USD 106,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision and dental insurance

Retirement savings plans

Disability insurance

Paid time away from work

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Sr. Transaction Manager to oversee complex real estate portfolio transactions from initiation to completion with strong financial discipline and stakeholder coordination.

You will lead strategy, negotiation, and delivery across client portfolios, ensuring optimal outcomes and adherence to client objectives. Based in the United States, you will collaborate with internal and external brokers, legal partners, and clients, driving proactive advisory support and

Responsibilities

• Lead transaction service delivery across assigned client portfolios, ensuring alignment with client goals, account priorities, and real estate objectives.
• Collaborate with internal and external brokerage professionals to develop transaction strategies and negotiate terms for renewals, acquisitions, dispositions, lease restructures, and other real estate transactions.
• Lead negotiation of LOIs, lease agreements, amendments, and other documents with brokerage professionals, legal partners, and client stakeholders.
• Manage field broker selection processes and coordinate transaction teams to meet client needs and parameters.
• Develop strategic real estate plans and provide transaction-informed advisory support, identifying occupancy cost savings and portfolio optimization opportunities.
• Present transaction activity to client and Cushman & Wakefield management; lead client meetings to align stakeholders and advance decisions.
• Prepare and review financial analyses, manage budgeting, rebate accounts, and ensure accuracy of transaction reports and client materials.
• Develop and improve standardized processes, playbooks, forms, and governance; leverage AI-enabled solutions to improve execution and outcomes.
• Provide supervision and guidance to transaction team members and ensure data accuracy and compliant reporting.

Job description

Job Title Sr. Transaction Manager

Job Description Summary As the Sr. Transaction Manager, you will oversee transaction management delivery for complex real estate portfolios, ensuring transactions are executed from initiation through completion with strong financial discipline, stakeholder coordination, and service quality. This role provides portfolio-level transaction oversight, strategic planning support, process leadership, and guidance to transaction team members while helping clients achieve their real estate objectives. As a member of Cushman & Wakefield’s Portfolio Advisory Group, the Sr. Transaction Manager will be dedicated to one or more of Cushman & Wakefield’s most dynamic client accounts. In this role, you will collaborate closely with peers and the account team to support a client's strategic real estate vision. The Sr. Transaction Manager will embody our team philosophy “Client First, Insight Always, Execution Excellence”, ensuring every deliverable reflects the team’s commitment to innovation, collaboration, and measurable impact.

Job Description

Portfolio Execution & Transaction Oversight

Lead transaction service delivery across assigned client portfolios, ensuring alignment with client goals, account priorities, and real estate objectives. Collaborate with internal and external brokerage professionals to develop transaction strategies and ensure effective negotiation of business terms for renewals, acquisitions, dispositions, lease restructures, and other owned and leased real estate transactions. Lead negotiation of Letters of Intent (LOIs), lease agreements, amendments, and other transaction documents in collaboration with brokerage professionals, legal partners, and client stakeholders. Manage field broker selection processes and coordinate transaction teams to align resources with client needs. Determine client requirements, communicate project parameters, coordinate legal review activities, resolve transaction-related issues, and support client site visits and market tours.

Strategic Planning & Portfolio Advisory

Lead development of strategic real estate plans and provide transaction-informed advisory support to clients. Identify occupancy cost savings opportunities and support expansion, contraction, renewal, relocation, disposition, and portfolio optimization strategies. Produce and support business case development, including reports, data, financial analyses, action plans, occupancy cost savings, and value-add analyses.

Client & Stakeholder Engagement

Collaborate with client stakeholders, internal contributors, brokerage professionals, portfolio administration, and account partners to support transaction and portfolio outcomes. Present transaction activity to client and C&W management and participate in client/C&W business reviews. Lead and facilitate client meetings to align stakeholders, communicate progress, and advance transaction decisions.

Financial, Budgeting & Performance Management

Prepare, review, interpret, and apply financial analysis and accounting concepts to support transaction strategies and client recommendations. Manage budgeting activities, client rebate accounts, and transaction revenue tracking. Ensure accuracy of financial data, transaction reports, client materials, and performance-related deliverables.

Process Management, Technology & AI Enablement

Develop, implement, and continuously improve standardized processes, account playbooks, standard forms, procedures, and performance measurements. Manage key documentation, client communications, reporting workflows, and transaction governance practices to improve efficiency and consistency. Leverage AI-enabled and technology-driven solutions to improve transaction execution, reporting quality, analysis, workflow efficiency, and client outcomes.

Team Guidance & Quality Control

Provide supervision and guidance for transaction team members and other team members supporting transaction activity for the client relationship. Collaborate with portfolio administration teams to support data accuracy and consistent transaction reporting. Ensure applicable state real estate standards and account-level transaction requirements are met.

Benefits & Compensation

• 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.
• The compensation for the position is: $ 106,250.00 - $125,000.00
• 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.
• In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at Cushman & Wakefield, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email [e-mail]. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

About Cushman & Wakefield

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield” About Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for occupiers and investors with approximately 53,000 employees in over 350 offices and nearly 60 countries. In 2025, the firm reported revenue of $10.3 billion across its core service lines of services, Leasing, Capital markets, and Valuation and other. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture.

For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com