About the role

  • Senior Operations Manager overseeing operational health and service delivery across four Florida offices. Leading people and driving operational excellence for Cushman & Wakefield's largest submarket.

Responsibilities

  • Provide overall operational leadership for South Florida, ensuring consistent, high-quality execution and service delivery across all four offices.
  • Serve as a strategic business partner to market leadership on operational priorities, organizational planning, service delivery, and office performance.
  • Act as the primary escalation point for internal and external operational issues; drive timely resolution while strengthening root-cause prevention.
  • Drive operational excellence initiatives, standardize best practices, and improve workflows across functions and locations.
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a large, multi-site administrative/operations organization; set clear expectations and build strong accountability and performance routines.
  • Foster a positive, inclusive, and high-engagement culture across offices; strengthen morale, collaboration, and cross-functional connectivity.
  • Partner with HR on recruiting, onboarding, performance management, succession planning, and talent development for operations and support teams.
  • Design/coordinate training and adoption programs for operational policies, procedures, tools, and service standards.
  • Manage and influence financial operations including budgeting, forecasting, expense management, and financial modeling; identify trends and opportunities to improve performance and manage risk.
  • Oversee AR/AP processing, vendor spend, purchasing controls, and expense tracking; ensure appropriate approvals and policy adherence.
  • Support deal documentation, transaction expense reconciliation, and commission accounting workflows in partnership with Finance and business stakeholders.
  • Oversee facilities and office services across all locations to ensure a consistent, professional workplace experience.
  • Manage vendor relationships, contracts, service levels, and issue resolution; drive continuous improvement and cost effectiveness.
  • Communicate with clarity and executive presence; translate priorities into action across diverse stakeholder groups.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Real Estate, or a related field preferred.
  • 7+ years of progressive leadership experience in commercial real estate operations, business operations, logistics operations, or comparable multi-site operational leadership roles.
  • 4+ years of people management experience leading 25+ direct reports (required).
  • Demonstrated success leading multi-location operations and driving consistency, service delivery, and adoption of standards across distributed teams.
  • Strong financial acumen; ability to analyze and interpret P&L statements and financial data; comfort with budgeting, forecasting, and business planning.
  • High proficiency with Microsoft Office 365 (especially Excel), and experience leveraging CRM/analytics tools (e.g., Salesforce, Power BI) to drive operational insight and accountability.
  • Project/process improvement experience; proven ability to simplify, scale, and operationalize workflows.
  • PMP certification a plus.

Benefits

  • health, vision, and dental insurance
  • flexible spending accounts
  • health savings accounts
  • retirement savings plans
  • life and disability insurance programs
  • paid and unpaid time away from work

Job title

Senior Operations Manager

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$102,000 - $120,000 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Tech skills

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