Job Title
Managing Director, National Life Sciences Lead, Project & Development Services
Job Description Summary
This role is responsible for leading Cushman & Wakefield’s Americas Life Sciences platform, focused on supporting clients’ real estate capital programs and projects through integrated advisory, delivery, and execution services. The Managing Director works across brokerage, life sciences advisory, project delivery, project controls, and regional teams to ensure clients receive coordinated, end-to-end support for complex life sciences portfolios.
The Americas Life Sciences Lead serves as a senior client-facing leader and platform builder, responsible for driving growth in core life sciences markets, overseeing key client relationships, and ensuring appropriate technical capabilities and teams are in place to support capital investment strategies.
Job Description
Life Sciences Platform Leadership
Partner with sector, regional, and service line leadership to deliver integrated life sciences solutions across planning, transactions, development, and execution.
Business Development & Market Growth
Client Leadership & Capital Program Oversight
Support executive-level discussions around timelines, delivery models, risk considerations, and investment sequencing.
Technical & Team Enablement
Bring strong technical understanding of life sciences environments, including R&D, laboratory, manufacturing, and regulated facilities.
Cross-Service Line & Geographic Coordination
Collaborate across brokerage, advisory, delivery, and controls teams to support integrated client solutions.
Qualifications & Experience
Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Architecture, Construction Management, Real Estate, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
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: $ 212,500.00 - $250,000.00
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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