Sr Manager, Transaction Management

CBRE Group, Inc.; Toronto; On-site; CAD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Manager, Transaction Management to lead a team responsible for ongoing real estate transaction activities for a complex portfolio on behalf of corporate clients.

You will supervise, develop, and coach staff, coordinate daily operations, and negotiate leases and related terms to meet client objectives. A Real Estate salesperson license and 5–8 years of experience are preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5–8 years of relevant experience; Real Estate salesperson license required.
• Experience in staffing, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance preferred.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive information and convey performance expectations.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve targets.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook).
• Strong organizational skills and proactive mindset.
• Intermediate math skills for percentages, fractions, and financial calculations.

Responsibilities

• Provide formal supervision to employees; oversee training and development; conduct performance evaluations and coaching.
• Coordinate and manage daily team activities; set schedules and deadlines; mentor staff.
• Lead complex real estate plans aligned with client goals; define scope and priorities; monitor milestones.
• Act as landlord/tenant agent; negotiate terms.
• Coordinate property acquisitions and lease negotiations; monitor expirations and renewals.

Skills

Team leadership

Staff development

Performance evaluations

Coaching

Negotiation

Cross-functional collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Real Estate salesperson license

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

About the Role

As a CBRE Sr. Manager, Transaction Management, you will manage a team that provides ongoing management of real estate transaction activities for a complex or high-profile portfolio of properties on behalf of our corporate clients.

What You'll Do

• Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees.
• Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and cross-train staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed.
• Implement complex real estate plans with an understanding of the client's strategic real estate goals. Assist with project initiation and scope definition, prioritization of assignments, and adherence to client-driven priorities, commitments, and milestones.
• Act as a landlord or seller agent and tenant or buyer agent and effectively negotiate the business terms and conditions.
• Coordinate the negotiation of sales through a field broker. This includes negotiating leases and lease amendments, monitoring lease expirations, and negotiating lease renewals in time.
• Locate and acquire new properties to meet the client's requirements and timeline.
• Review, evaluate, and interpret financial analysis templates. This includes book and cash flow projections, NPV or IRR financial analyses to enable clients to make more informed decisions.
• Work closely with the company or client's Lease Administration, Project Management, Facility Management, and Finance and Accounting teams to ensure integration between the service lines.
• Prepare commission forecasts and vouchers, and track all savings results achieved on behalf of clients.
• Monitor a real estate project tracking system to ensure timely transaction completion; prepare reports and make presentations to relevant parties.
• Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans.
• Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity.
• Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department.
• Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within the job discipline.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5 - 8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Real Estate salesperson license required.
• Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred.
• Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations and handle problems.
• Leadership skills to motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Intermediate math skills. Ability to calculate complicated figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.