Cushman & Wakefield
Global Real Estate Director (Aerospace and Defense)
2235 Monroe Street, Herndon, VA
Full-time · $136k–$160k (as posted)
First seen by offpeak October 16, 2026
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Job Title
Global Real Estate Director (Aerospace and Defense)
Job Description Summary
Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Global Real Estate Director (Aerospace and Defense) to support an Aerospace & Defense client account. They will aid the customer in having the right data at the right time to make the best strategic decisions for the portfolio. This role partners closely with the client’s Global Real Estate team to turn portfolio, transaction, and operational data into clear insights that inform decision-making. The ideal candidate combines strong business intelligence and storytelling skills with hands-on transaction experience. You will analyze portfolio performance, track critical lease and transaction milestones, support strategic planning, and develop executive-ready dashboards and presentations. This position plays an important role in identifying opportunities, reducing risk, and helping drive real estate decisions across a large diverse global portfolio.Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint is required.
Job Description
Key Responsibilities
Business Intelligence & Reporting
- Analyze real estate portfolio, transaction, and operational data to identify trends, risks, and opportunities.
- Design and deliver dashboards, reports, and executive presentations that translate complex data into clear business insights that are consistent and automated.
- Build compelling data-driven narratives to support stakeholder alignment and decision-making.
- Support strategic research, quantitative and qualitative analysis, and ad hoc reporting as business needs evolve.
Portfolio & Operational Analysis
- Monitor portfolio health using property and operational data, including occupancy, lease expirations, rent roll accuracy, delinquency, maintenance activity, CapEx, and tenant improvement allowance spend.
- Support portfolio optimization efforts by evaluating performance and helping implement portfolio plans aligned to client objectives.
- Assist with internal capital planning, budgeting, and business case development.
- Review and interpret financial information to support strategy and reporting.
Transaction Coordination & Execution
- Track transaction activity and critical lease dates, including expirations, renewal notice deadlines, and tenant improvement timelines.
- Maintain accurate transaction records, files, and reporting databases.
- Coordinate documentation flow and communications among landlords, client stakeholders, brokers, and legal counsel.
- Engage with landlords and support lease transaction negotiations and execution.
- Present transaction activity and performance updates to the client.
- Assist Portfolio Managers in ensuring required client and broker engagement documentation is completed accurately and on time.
Client Engagement
- Work to build relationships inside the business managing information exchange and molding GRE insights to business needs.
- Routinely engage with business stakeholders to assess short- and long-term needs and communicate them to the Cushman & Wakefield and client teams to inform strategy.
- Shape a future state portfolio that enables business success, drives efficiency and cost reduction.
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field required.
- Commercial real estate experience required.
- Experience supporting lease transactions, portfolio reporting, and real estate analytics strongly preferred.
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint required.
- Experience with BI visualization and executive-level reporting required.
- Familiarity with property management, real estate development, tenant representation, facilities, construction project management, IWMS, CMMS, or similar real estate systems preferred.
- Notary Public Commission preferred, or ability to obtain within 3 months of hire.
- Ability to travel up to 25%.
Success Profile
The successful candidate will be:
- Highly analytical and detail-oriented
- Comfortable working across large, complex datasets
- Skilled at turning analysis into actionable recommendations
- Effective in a fast-paced, client-facing environment, with utmost integrity
- Strong communicator with the ability to influence through clear, polished deliverables
- Collaborative and able to work across cross-functional teams
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: $ 136,000.00 - $160,000.00Cushman & 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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