Associate Vice President | Thought Leadership, Research & Analytics

Job Title

Associate Vice President | Thought Leadership, Research & Analytics

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a professional to analyze real estate data across various asset classes, prepare market insights, and create detailed reports. The role involves collaboration with internal teams, tracking market developments, and contributing to thought leadership. Strong analytical skills, business writing proficiency, and prior real estate research experience are preferred.

Job Description

About the role:
• The TL role is central to the India research team; the person needs to work with all city research leads as well as the Research head closely.
• You will be directly influencing the company’s brand and market positioning by spearheading all thought leadership pieces. You will act as a creative mind for the team, having relevant experience of developing analytical and thought-provoking content.
• Must be inquisitive to learn and continuously monitor real estate market trends by reading or following competition reports, relevant news, and industry insights.
• Accountable for disseminating impactful insights, analyses, and forward-looking perspectives within the real estate industry.
• Should be extremely comfortable with numbers and be able to draw meaningful analysis from in-house or external data using excel analytics, pivot charts, and creative infographics. Knowledge of Power BI will be useful, although not necessary.
• Oversee creation of high-quality content, including articles, whitepapers, research reports, webinars, and presentations. Ensure content is well-researched, relevant, and resonates with target audiences.
• Build and maintain relationships with industry experts, partners, and external thought leaders to enhance the company's presence in the real estate space.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders across marketing, research, and company leadership to ensure alignment of thought leadership efforts with overall business strategy.

About You:
• Excellence in writing reports, articles, and white papers
• Excellent analytical skills
• Adept with MS Excel for Analytics. Pivot, Slicer etc.
• Prior experience in real estate is preferable
• Postgraduate in Business, Real Estate, Economics, or related field
• 8-12 years of experience with a track record of thought leadership and content creation. Real Estate experience will be highly preferred.
• Experience of managing a team will be preferred
• Strong analytical and secondary research abilities
• Deep understanding of current and emerging trends in the Indian real estate space.

Why join Cushman & Wakefield?
As one of the leading global real estate services firms transforming the way people work, shop and live working at Cushman & Wakefield means you will benefit from.

• Being part of a growing global company.

• Career development and a promote from within culture.

• An organisation committed to Diversity and Inclusion

We're committed to providing work-life balance for our people in an inclusive, rewarding environment. We achieve this by providing a flexible and agile work environment by focusing on technology and autonomy to help our people achieve their career ambitions. We focus on career progression and foster a promotion from within culture, leveraging global opportunities to ensure we retain our top talent. We encourage continuous learning and development opportunities to develop personal, professional, and technical capabilities, and we reward with a comprehensive employee benefits program.

We have a vision of the future, where people simply belong.

That's why we support and celebrate inclusive causes, not just on days of recognition throughout the year, but every day. We embrace diversity across race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or persons with disabilities or protected veteran status. We ensure DEI is part of our DNA as a global community - it means we go way beyond than just talking about it - we live it. If you want to live it too, join us.

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