Strategic Portfolio Mgmt. Managing Director - Talent Community

Strategic Portfolio Mgmt. Managing Director - Talent Community

Job ID

299273

Posted

02-Oct-2026

Service line

Advisory Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Property Management

Location(s)

Atlanta - Georgia - United States of America, Chicago - Illinois - United States of America, Dallas - Texas - United States of America, Los Angeles - California - United States of America, New York - New York - United States of America

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About the Role:

CBRE's Strategic Portfolio Management division serves the country's largest institutional property owners. As Account Lead, you will run one of these marquee accounts as a standalone operating business, owning its financial performance, service delivery, client partnership, talent, transformation, and growth.

You will hold full profit-and-loss accountability for property management, engineering, accounting, and tenant experience across the client's portfolio. Accounts in this program span 25 million to 75 million square feet across office and/or logistics assets. The scale and composition of the leadership team will reflect the portfolio's size, complexity, and geography.

Why we want an Asset Manager: Every decision on this account either creates, preserves, or dilutes portfolio value-from capital projects and staffing models to vendor consolidation, technology, and service standards. A leader who has made those decisions from the ownership side can evaluate operating choices through an investor's lens rather than simply manage to the contract.

You will apply that ownership lens to an operating platform larger than any single portfolio, and you will engage with the client using their language - language you also use and understand from your own experience.

The team you lead: You inherit an established organization. Some people will have worked for the client, some for CBRE in a single market, and some for another service provider; few will have chosen the transition. You will shape the account leadership team across operations, engineering, technology, transformation, and client experience while developing the people already serving the portfolio.

Changing how an established organization works is harder than building one from the ground up. People understand the rationale behind legacy practices, and some of those practices will be worth preserving. Success requires the judgment to distinguish what should remain from what must change, and the leadership to bring people with you.

The enterprise seat: This is an enterprise executive position at CBRE. You will lead the account, help shape the direction of Strategic Portfolio Management, and influence how CBRE serves its largest institutional clients.

• Accountable for talent and succession across your organization, including a working succession plan for every senior role.
• Accountable for how risk is managed in your part of the business.
• Expected to act in the best interests of the enterprise and create an environment in which supporting other parts of CBRE is expected and valued.
• Accountable for using facts and data to evaluate performance, make decisions, and communicate results.
• Expected to give candid input before a decision, and to back the decision once the executive team makes it.

Most asset management leaders reach a point where their influence stops at the portfolio. This seat does not have that ceiling.

What You'll Do:

• Financial and operational performance. The account result is yours, end to end.
• One point of accountability. Across every market and every property. The client stops managing many relationships and manages one.
• Translation of strategy into delivery. You know where value gets created and diluted in an institutional portfolio. You read the client's plan to understand their investment and portfolio strategy, translate the plan into property level priorities, and align CBRE's operating teams around the actions that protect and create value for the client.
• The operating model. Cost structure, service integration, standardization across markets, and how the account absorbs portfolio contraction and expansion.
• Transformation. Change management, system adoption, and the operating improvements the client could not run on their own.
• Portfolio insight. You will connect operating performance, market intelligence, and portfolio data to identify patterns, risks, and opportunities. You will translate those insights into recommendations that inform client strategy, strengthen retention, and create opportunities for growth.
• Proactive Risk Management. You will maintain a forward view of portfolio, operating, financial, and relationship risk so service failures, staffing gaps, and financial issues reach you before they reach the client. You will identify emerging issues before they become escalations and mobilize the right leaders to resolve them.
• Governance with the client. You establish governance in partnership with the client, including the steering committee, and the operating cadence beneath it. Then you hold both organizations to it.
• The contract. You will own contract governance, compliance, performance against commitments, renewal, and expansion.
• Growth. You will be accountable for year-over-year revenue growth, wallet share, and client satisfaction. You will identify and convert opportunities to deepen and expand the client relationship.

What You'll Need:

To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• Bachelor's degree. MBA or advanced business degree preferred.
• At least 15 years of progressive leadership experience in institutional real estate asset management or portfolio management, including hands-on operational responsibility and accountability for financial performance across office and/or logistics portfolios.
• Proven experience leading large, geographically diverse teams, building culture, and implementing performance measurement standards and accountability.
• A record of leading change in an established organization, including teams you did not hire.
• Experience negotiating and administering complex commercial contracts and delivering against commitments in them.
• Financial fluency and the ability to use data, operating metrics, and financial analysis to make and communicate decisions.
• Executive presence with C-Suite clients, and the judgment to lead difficult conversations well.
• A record of delivering results in a matrixed organization by aligning stakeholders and mobilizing resources beyond your direct authority.
• Strong written and verbal communication and presentation skills.
• Willingness to travel approximately 25% to 30%, depending on client headquarters and portfolio geography.
• Commitment to model CBRE RISE values

Why CBRE

When you join CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamic problem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significant impact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values - respect, integrity, service and excellence - and we value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity to realize your full potential.

Our Values In Hiring

At CBRE, we are committed to fostering a culture where everyone feels they belong. We value diverse perspectives and experiences, and we welcome all applications.

Disclaimers

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

Applicant AI Use Disclosure

We value human interaction to understand each candidate's unique experience, skills and aspirations. We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make hiring decisions, and we ask that candidates disclose any use of AI in the application and interview process.

About CBRE Group, Inc.

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2024 revenue). The company has more than 140,000 employees (including Turner & Townsend employees) serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves clients through four business segments: Advisory (leasing, sales, debt origination, mortgage serving, valuations); Building Operations & Experience (facilities management, property management, flex space & experience); Project Management (program management, project management, cost consulting); Real Estate Investments (investment management, development). Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.

Equal Employment Opportunity: CBRE has a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Candidate Accommodations: CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company's success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).

About CBRE Group, Inc. CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services. The company has more than 155,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves clients through four business segments: Advisory (leasing, sales, debt origination, mortgage servicing, valuations); Building Operations & Experience (facilities management, property management, flex space & experience, critical infrastructure); Project Management (program management, project management, cost consulting); Real Estate Investments (investment management, development). Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.

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