Manager, Talent Management

C&W Services
Chicago, IL

Job Title

Manager, Talent Management

Job Description Summary

We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Manager, Talent Management to join our team. This role is pivotal in ensuring our workforce is strategically aligned with our business goals.


The ideal candidate will also be responsible for developing and executing employee experience programs and initiatives, as well as providing compensation analysis and recommendations to our clients.

Job Description

Talent Management & Workforce Planning

Strategic Workforce Planning

  • Develop and execute enterprise and function‑level workforce plans that align talent supply with current and future business strategy.
  • Partner with business and functional leaders to forecast headcount, skills, and capability needs across short‑ and long‑term horizons.
  • Translate business strategy into clear talent demand scenarios, identifying risks, gaps, and future capability requirements.
  • Monitor workforce capacity, role criticality, and skill mix to proactively address business constraints.

Workforce Analytics & Insights

  • Analyze workforce data (headcount, attrition, internal mobility, time‑to‑fill, bench strength, diversity metrics) to identify trends and inform decision‑making.
  • Establish and track workforce planning KPIs, providing regular insights and recommendations to senior leaders.
  • Use data to highlight talent risks, opportunity areas, and mitigation strategies.

Talent Acquisition & Pipeline Strategy

  • Identify current and future talent needs and develop sustainable talent pipelines for critical and hard‑to‑fill roles.
  • Partner with Talent Acquisition to align hiring strategies, sourcing approaches, and workforce plans.

Onboarding & Talent Integration

  • Oversee and continuously improve the onboarding experience to ensure new hires are effectively integrated and productive.
  • Partner with leaders to accelerate time‑to‑productivity through role clarity, early development, and performance expectations.

Career Development & Internal Mobility

  • Design and manage career development frameworks that enable internal mobility and career progression.
  • Ensure employees and managers have access to tools and guidance for meaningful career conversations.
  • Partner with leaders to identify readiness for advancement and stretch opportunities.

Succession Planning & Critical Role Readiness

  • Lead succession planning efforts for critical and leadership roles, ensuring depth, readiness, and continuity.
  • Facilitate talent reviews to assess potential, performance, and development needs.
  • Identify and close succession gaps through targeted development and talent strategies.

Employee Experience & Engagement Enablement

  • Partner with leaders to foster a work environment that supports engagement, retention, and performance through effective talent practices.
  • Translate engagement and retention insights into actionable talent interventions.
  • Support leader capability in talent conversations, development planning, and retention efforts.

Cushman & Wakefield also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs, generally including health, vision, and dental insurance, flexible spending accounts, health savings accounts, retirement savings plans, life, and disability insurance programs, and paid and unpaid time away from work. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package, Cushman and Wakefield provide eligible employees with competitive pay, which may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location, date of hire, total hours worked, job type, business line, and applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

The compensation that will be offered to the successful candidate will depend on factors such as whether the position is covered by a collective bargaining agreement, the geographic area in which the work will be performed, market pay rates in that area, and the candidate’s experience and qualifications.

The company will not pay less than minimum wage for this role.

The compensation for the position is: $ 106,250.00 - $125,000.00

C&W Services is an Equal Opportunity employer to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities. Discrimination of any type will not be tolerated.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act (ADAAA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position at C&W Services, please call the ADA line at 1-888-365-5406 or email [email protected]. Please refer to the job title and job location when you contact us.

INCO: “C&W Services”
Posted 2026-04-16

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