Senior Analyst, Strategy & Analytics

At Cresa, we believe our clients deserve better. A better space to work, create, build, grow. A better outcome for their people and organization. A better partner who puts their needs first, helping them navigate the landscape, tilting the playing field in their favor and giving them an insider’s edge.

Our mission is to find and foster the best environment for every business. Our purpose is to think beyond space - strengthening those we serve and enhancing quality of life for our clients and employees. We are built to champion our clients’ aspirations through real estate. When considering partnership, we strive to connect with those who share our values:
Work Together, Create Value, Be Tenacious, Enhance Community, and Embrace Diversity
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We believe in being the change. We work together to find new ways of doing things that create value for our clients - and for each other. Because there is not much that feels better than collaborating to make a positive difference each day.

At Cresa, we offer an opportunity to be part of something bigger. To learn, advance, mentor and be recognized. Your voice will be heard, and you will be valued for both your individual and team contributions.

The Senior Analyst, Strategy & Analytics is a hands-on analytics role within Cresa's Global Portfolio Solutions (GPS) group. Strategy & Analytics turns labor, demographic, market and cost data into clear, defensible real estate recommendations, including site rankings, market screeners, total cost models, drive-time and commute studies, psychographic segmentation and portfolio consolidation analyses. Our work helps advisors win new business and helps clients defend decisions to their boards and investors.

The key goal for this role is to own analytics projects end to end: scope work directly with advisors, build the analysis, and turn it into a story a client executive can act on. This person will also help make the team faster by turning repeat work into templates, automations and AI-assisted workflows. This is a remote position.

• Deliver location and market analyses. Build strategic site rankings, market comparison screeners, total cost models, commute and drive-time studies, labor market assessments and portfolio consolidation analyses, typically on timelines of three days to three weeks.
• Own projects end to end. Scope requests with advisors, define the right approach and data, build and QA the model, and deliver client-ready outputs while managing several engagements at once.
• Support pursuits at the point of sale. Produce rapid location analytics, demos and market assessments that help advisors open doors and differentiate Cresa in competitive pitches.
• Tell the story. Turn complex analysis into clear visuals and recommendations in Tableau and PowerPoint, and present alongside advisors to client stakeholders, typically by video, when needed.
• Make the work repeatable. Build reusable Alteryx workflows, Tableau templates and standard deliverables so common requests take less time and cost less to deliver.
• Leverage AI. Use AI tools daily to accelerate research, data preparation, code, QA and first-draft narratives, with sound judgment about verification and client confidentiality, and share what works with the team.
• Steward our data. Maintain data quality and documentation across labor, demographic, geospatial and cost data sources, and help evaluate new data partners.
• Grow the bench. Mentor analysts and interns as the team grows, and contribute case studies and examples for internal marketing to advisors.

• Strong working knowledge of Esri ArcGIS, Alteryx and Tableau, and advanced Excel
• Experience with labor market data, ideally Lightcast
• Understanding of…