Director, Spatial Data Management
Job Title
Director, Spatial Data Management Job Description Summary
Job Description
What You Will Do
Lead the spatial data capability
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Define and evolve spatial data standards, governance frameworks, and best practices.
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Create repeatable processes for data quality, stewardship, audit readiness, and consistency.
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Drive alignment across clients, tools, regions, and service delivery models.
Apply spatial data through a business lens
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Translate spatial data discipline into practical business value for clients and the practice.
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Improve reporting integrity, implementation quality, scalability, and decision support.
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Use spatial and occupancy data to support predictive, data-driven decisions based on current occupancy models.
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Optimize, implement, and manage advanced spatial systems that measure utilization and align workplace environments to business needs, helping increase operational effectiveness and productivity.
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Help assess where modernization—including emerging AI opportunities—may improve workflows, reporting, or client value.
Partner with technology teams
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Work closely with technology teams to support workplace technology implementations, re-implementations, and ongoing enablement.
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Translate business needs into data, process, and platform requirements.
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Help ensure data standards and governance align to implementation realities.
Modernize methods and delivery
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Refresh and document playbooks, methodologies, process maps, and guidance related to space allocation, planning, audits, utilization, and live occupancy.
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Build practical frameworks that improve repeatability, quality, and consistency across the practice.
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Drive disciplined, constructive conversations about process, accountability, decision rights, and consistency to improve service delivery at scale.
Support clients and practice growth
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Serve as a trusted advisor on spatial data integrity and modern space management practices.
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Partner with clients to connect occupancy, utilization, and planning data to strategic workplace and portfolio decisions.
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Contribute to thought leadership, reusable content, and practice development efforts.
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Identify opportunities to strengthen service delivery and support client growth.
What We Are Looking For
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Significant experience in Spatial Data Management, workplace data, occupancy data, or related space management disciplines.
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Strong experience in data governance, data consistency, stewardship, standards development, and quality control.
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Experience applying data discipline through a business lens, including the ability to connect technical or operational work to business and client outcomes.
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Experience partnering with technology teams to support system implementation, platform enablement, or business-to-technology translation.
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Experience supporting workplace, occupancy, reservation, IWMS, or related workplace technology platforms.
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Strong client-facing communication, collaboration, and leadership skills.
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Experience creating playbooks, methodologies, standards, process documentation, or best-practice content.
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A genuine appreciation for documentation and the discipline required to create clear, scalable, and reusable standards, workflows, and guidance.
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Comfort leading direct, thoughtful, and sometimes hard conversations about process, governance, accountability, and ways of working.
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Experience using occupancy, utilization, or spatial data to support forecasting, planning, and real estate decision-making.
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Ability to influence across functions and help mature a growing capability area.
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Ability to work effectively across regions, cultures, and time zones in support of a globally connected practice.
Preferred Qualifications
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Experience with one or more major occupancy, reservation, IWMS, or space management platforms.
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Experience supporting re-implementation or workplace modernization efforts.
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Experience developing