Cushman & Wakefield
Associate Director – Supply Chain & Logistics Advisory, ANZ
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Associate Director – Supply Chain & Logistics Advisory, ANZJob Description Summary
A strategic supply chain advisory role responsible for delivering data‑driven supply chain analysis and consulting solutions, advising senior clients across multiple sectors, driving commercial growth, and translating supply chain strategy into actionable operational and real estate outcomes.Job Description
About the Role:
- Supply Chain Strategy & Analytics: Lead end‑to‑end supply chain diagnostics, modelling, and optimization, translating data into actionable insights with clear commercial, operational, and real‑estate implications.
- Client Advisory & Engagement: Act as a trusted advisor to occupier clients, facilitating workshops, site visits, and assessments, and clearly communicating complex supply chain issues to senior stakeholders.
- Consulting Delivery & Project Leadership: Lead workstreams or small projects, structuring problems, building and testing models, managing timelines, and ensuring high‑quality, commercially aligned deliverables.
- Business Development & Revenue Growth: Drive growth of the SCLA practice across ANZ and APAC by identifying opportunities, shaping proposals, supporting pitches, generating fee income, and deepening client relationships.
- Real Estate & Operational Alignment: Translate supply chain strategies into real estate requirements, support site selection and business cases, collaborate with brokerage teams, and uphold safety, health, and quality standards.
About You:
- Core Supply Chain Expertise: 5–10+ years’ experience across supply chain operations, logistics, distribution, manufacturing, or network planning, with strong knowledge of warehousing, inventory flows, transport networks, and performance KPIs.
- Consulting & Structured Problem‑Solving: Experience in consulting or advisory settings, applying hypothesis‑driven analysis, delivering strategy or operational improvement projects, and contributing to proposals, pricing, and client presentations.
- Commercial & Communication Strength: Ability to translate complex technical analysis into clear, compelling insights; confident engaging senior stakeholders, facilitating workshops, defining project scopes, and pitching solutions.
- Analytical & Technical Capability: Proficient in tools such as Excel and Power BI, capable of self‑sufficient initial analysis, interpreting operational data, and producing structured, client‑ready presentations; network design tools are an advantage.
- Real Estate Awareness & Personal Attributes: Strong appreciation of the link between supply chain decisions and real estate strategy, combined with entrepreneurial mindset, high ownership, curiosity, and comfort working in a fast‑paced, growth‑orientated global environment.
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 organization 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, gender, 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.
As an equal opportunity employer, Cushman & Wakefield encourages Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and female candidates to apply. Cushman & Wakefield promotes safety at all times.INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield”
