EMEA Director – Global Strategy (Location Strategy / Economic Incentives)

Full Job Description

Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries (“Newmark”), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark’s comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform’s global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the year ending December 31, 2023, Newmark generated revenues of approximately $2.5 billion. Newmark’s company-owned offices, together with its business partners, operated from approximately 170 offices with 7,400 professionals around the world. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark .

Director – Global Strategy (Location Strategy / Economic Incentives), EMEA

This role is also open to major European markets including Paris, Berlin(remote), London & Warsaw.

Job Description:

Newmark is growing around the world. As part of our growth journey, we are currently seeking a Director for our Global Strategy practice (Location Strategy / Economic Incentives) in Europe.

You will work collaboratively with a global and local team of consultants, with an emphasis on growing our market-leading specialties in location strategy, site selection, footprint optimization, and economic incentives advisory capabilities.

The position day-to-day will focus on advising clients across all industries, asset types, and levels of maturity; as they access markets, optimize their supply chains, improve operational performance and implement unique location strategies on a global basis.

Essential Job Duties:

• Conduct primary and secondary research for consulting projects and business development.
• Manage portions of projects through the processing of large quantities of data and information
• Create innovative location decision tools that address the financial and operational concerns of our clients.
• Develop custom client ready deliverables with respect to various types of analytical issues, e.g:
• location and demographic comparisons;
• greenfield, brownfield and repurposed sites and buildings
• infrastructure assessment and research, including all forms of utilities
• transportation and logistics studies;
• business climates and community profiling
• economic incentives modeling and negotitation (EU, country, regional and local level)
• operating costs and operating conditions
• other special data aggregation and mining efforts
• Participate in client meetings, workshops, presentations and industry events
• Support the development of location strategy and economic incentives advisory proposals
• May perform other duties as required.

Skills, Education, and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree preferably in one of the following disciplines: Business Administration, Law, Tax, Economics, Engineering, or Urban & Regional Planning
• MBA or other specialized master’s degree preferred.
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience
• Experience in a management consulting environment, ideally with a focus on Location Strategy, Economic Incentive Advisory, or Economic Development Consulting
• Problem solving, analytical, research and client service skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication
• English is essential, other languages are desirable (e.g. German, French, Spanish, Polish)
• Advanced proficiency with technology and client service tools; PowerPoint, Word, Excel, Power BI, and related packages
• Ability to work effectively in large teams and independently
• Ability to travel as needed.