Communications Manager

Santa Clara, CA (Hybrid)

$116K/yr – $136K/yrMid Level5+ years expFull time

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Owns and leads the firm's corporate communications program, shaping PR, media relations, and executive messaging while driving brand thought leadership and crisis readiness.

  • Oversees strategy aligned to business objectives
  • Manages media relations, campaigns, and executive communications

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Facilitate strong relationships and open communication with brokers, leadership, across departments.
  • Strong collaborative leadership skills, including ability to collaborate up, down and across the organization.
  • Align and executive on a PR strategy that supports the firm’s business objectives, while providing the highest level of client service
  • Provides strategy and tactics to achieve objectives and key performance indicators
  • Ensure consistency, quality, and usage of best practices in all communications, leveraging traditional and digital media channels
  • Boost company’s brand awareness, engagement, and thought leadership with best-in-class use of traditional and digital media channels
  • Uphold the mission and standards of the company and support firm-wide initiatives
  • Crisis management: support Asset Services leadership with all external communications initiatives surrounding sensitive company information and crises
  • Identify and build strategic relationships for the company with national, local, and trade media
  • Draft and disseminate pitches and press releases for notable transactions, wins, personnel changes, research and company milestones

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of communications experience in a corporate or agency environment.
  • Applies analytical skills and knowledge of data analysis tools and methodologies
  • Proven capabilities supporting C-Suite leadership
  • Thorough knowledge of commercial and property management real estate industry
  • Ability to effectively influence others to achieve understanding, acceptance, and commitment to act in support of ideas, programs, or causes
  • Ability to work effectively in a diverse environment
  • Ability to independently achieve successful outcomes on all executed activities with minimal supervision
  • Superior organization and time management and project management skills
  • Ability to draw upon the analysis and make recommendations that have a direct impact on the company

Benefits

  • 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.
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Cushman & Wakefield

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As a global commercial real estate services leader with 52,000 professionals worldwide, we will never settle for the world that’s been built, but relentlessly drive it forward for our clients, colleagues and communities. #BetterNeverSettles

Founded in 1917
Chicago, Illinois, USA
46K employees (1,394 in marketing)
71% recommend to a friend
81% CEO approval

Salaries

Posted range

$116K/yr – $136K/yr

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Funding

Total Funding
$734.8M
Last Raise
$223.8M
Post IPO Debt, 2 years ago

Funding History

  • Oct 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $223.8M
  • Aug 2023
    Post IPO Debt • $400M
  • Oct 2022
    Post IPO Debt • $27.3M

Traffic Signals

Monthly Visitors
509.7K
Monthly Google Ads Budget
$254
Traffic Source Mix
Search
53.1%
Direct
39.1%
Referral
5.5%
Social
1.5%
Paid
0.7%

Headcount Trend

Current headcount: ~45.9K

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Communications Manager

Cushman & Wakefield · Santa Clara, CA · Hybrid