
Cushman & Wakefield
A global commercial real‑estate firm delivering services from leasing to asset and facilities management.
Senior Analyst – Property Data
Analyzes CRE data gaps, consolidates requirements, validates market needs for PropertyPlanet onboarding
Job Highlights
About the Role
The Senior Analyst – Property Data will serve as a Business Analyst ensuring PropertyPlanet onboarding decisions are grounded in reality. The role consolidates, validates, and translates inputs from markets, delivery workstreams, and subject matter experts into clear, evidence‑based requirements. A core duty is to perform structured capability and operational gap analysis between PropertyPlanet and local market systems to determine market readiness before onboarding. The analyst must possess a strong understanding of Commercial Real Estate operations, data, and workflows to assess gaps credibly and engage markets confidently. This position does not involve prioritisation, sequencing, or solution design; decision ownership stays with the Product Owner and technical implementation with delivery teams. Key responsibilities span four main areas: CRE capability and operational gap analysis, requirements consolidation and validation, market engagement with evidence‑based challenge, and delivery readiness with traceability. The analyst will develop deep knowledge of PropertyPlanet, engage early with markets, document gaps, and support go/no‑go decisions. They will capture and structure requirements, resolve inconsistencies, and translate them into clear user stories. Direct engagement with market leads, facilitating playback sessions, and challenging unsupported assumptions ensure aligned and actionable requirements. Ongoing work includes preparing decision‑ready backlog items, maintaining traceability, and supporting validation and UAT across delivery workstreams. • Develop and maintain a deep understanding of PropertyPlanet’s capabilities and limitations. • Engage early with local markets to understand how their systems and processes operate in practice. • Identify where PropertyPlanet does and does not meet the operational needs of local market systems, focusing on day‑to‑day operation rather than full functional coverage. • Apply CRE domain knowledge to assess whether market‑critical workflows, data structures, and reporting needs are supported. • Clearly document gaps, impacts, and implications, and surface them early to inform readiness and go/no‑go decisions. • Capture, consolidate, and structure requirements from delivery workstream leads, markets, and SMEs. • Resolve duplication, inconsistency, and ambiguity across inputs before they progress. • Translate validated requirements into clear user stories with unambiguous acceptance criteria suitable for development and testing. • Ensure requirements reflect agreed scope and onboarding decisions. • Engage directly with market leads and contributors to validate the accuracy and completeness of requirements. • Facilitate structured playback sessions to confirm shared understanding before requirements are finalised. • Challenge unsupported assumptions, vague requests, or “we’ll work it out later” inputs using documented evidence. • Ensure explicit market alignment before requirements enter delivery. • Prepare backlog items so they are clear, complete, and decision‑ready. • Maintain traceability from market input through gap analysis and decisions to user stories. • Remain engaged through validation and UAT phases to clarify intent and support alignment between agreed requirements and delivered outcomes. • Work across delivery workstreams to ensure consistent terminology, assumptions, and artefact quality.
Key Responsibilities
- ▸gap analysis
- ▸requirements consolidation
- ▸user stories
- ▸backlog preparation
- ▸traceability
- ▸market engagement
What You Bring
• Mid‑senior level Business Analyst experience within complex, enterprise‑scale programmes. • Proven experience in Commercial Real Estate (CRE), with understanding of core operations, data, and local system usage. • Strong systems and data literacy, including integrations, data flows, and reporting dependencies. • Strong analytical and requirements definition capability across systems, processes, and operating models. • Comfortable engaging senior market stakeholders and facilitating structured validation sessions. • Disciplined, evidence‑driven, and comfortable challenging inputs without decision authority. • Able to operate effectively in politically complex environments and surface uncomfortable realities calmly.
Requirements
- ▸business analyst
- ▸cre experience
- ▸data literacy
- ▸analytical
- ▸stakeholder eng.
- ▸political savvy
Work Environment
Office Full-Time