Real Estate Programme Manager – Portfolio Delivery (12 months FTC)

Cushman & Wakefield; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Cushman & Wakefield is seeking a Real Estate Programme Manager – Portfolio Delivery to coordinate multi-site real estate transactions and projects for the client. This role acts as the in-house client-side link between internal stakeholders, external advisers and delivery partners, guiding governance from business case through to handover and post-completion review.

The role requires strong programme management, stakeholder engagement and commercial awareness to drive efficiency, manage risk and

Qualifications

• Experience delivering client-side or corporate real estate programmes.
• Strong governance, budgeting and milestone planning capabilities.
• Ability to coordinate multiple stakeholders and external advisers.

Responsibilities

• Lead portfolio delivery across lease renewals, regears, relocations and other portfolio transactions from requirement to completion.
• Translate business requirements into project scopes, plans and governance.
• Coordinate stakeholder activity across operations, finance, legal, risk, and senior leadership.
• Oversee governance, service levels, budgets, risks and reporting for outsourced delivery partners.
• Develop robust business cases and options appraisals with clear commercial implications.
• Align transactions withProperty governance and approval processes.
• Maintain programme plans, critical paths and dependencies with executive reporting.

Skills

Programme management

Portfolio delivery

Stakeholder management

Negotiation

Risk management

Financial analysis

Reporting

Leadership

Education

Real estate degree

Project management certification

Tools

MS Excel

Job description

Job Title Real Estate Programme Manager – Portfolio Delivery (12 months FTC)

Job Description Summary The Real Estate Programme Manager – Portfolio Delivery is responsible for coordinating the successful delivery of the client’s real estate transactions and associated property projects. The role combines transaction delivery with programme management and acts as the inhouse client-side link between internal business stakeholders, external advisers and outsourced delivery partners. The postholder is accountable from initial requirement and business case through governance, commercial negotiation, approvals, implementation, handover and post-completion review. Managing portfolio wide lease event governance and the transaction pipeline, you will drive a programmatic approach to transaction management, continuously identifying and realising opportunities for efficiency in both execution alongside portfolio performance.

Job Description Key Accountabilities

• Lead portfolio delivery across the transaction lifecycle for lease renewals, regears, relocations, consolidations, expansions and other portfolio transactions from initial requirement through completion, mobilisation, handover and post-completion review.
• Translate business requirements into project scopes, delivery plans, milestones, budgets, governance requirements and implementation activities that support approved property and portfolio objectives.
• Act as the key intelligent client-side point of coordination for all leasehold transaction activity, coordinating stakeholders across operations, finance, legal, tax, risk, sustainability, facilities, IT and senior leadership.
• Coordinate programme governance, ensuring outsourced providers deliver against agreed service levels, performance measures and strategic objectives including project plans, critical paths, dependencies, risk and issue logs, change control, budget tracking, approvals and executive reporting.
• Develop robust options appraisals and business cases through analysis, stakeholder coordination, information gathering and preparation of governance materials that clearly set out commercial, operational, financial, risk and timing implications.
• Coordinate inputs from external advisers, agents, lawyers, surveyors, project managers, consultants and landlords, supporting the successful delivery of property initiatives and agreed transaction outcomes.
• Build stakeholder alignment and ensure each transaction progresses through the required Property governance, delegation of authority, financial and legal approval processes.
• Maintain programme governance and oversee outsourced-provider performance against agreed service levels, governance requirements, performance measures and strategic objectives. Maintain clear plans, critical paths, dependencies, budgets, risks, issues, change controls, approvals and executive reporting, intervening promptly where delivery is at risk.
• Manage portfolio-wide transaction pipeline and lease-event governance, ensuring renewals, rent reviews, break options, regears and expiries are identified early, evidenced by approved occupancy strategies that enable you resource appropriately and deliver in line with business priorities.
• Support portfolio optimisation initiatives through forward-looking transaction analysis that identifies opportunities to reduce cost, manage risk and support business growth and wider organisational objectives.
• Drive continuous improvement in transaction processes and support the implementation and ongoing development of the Property Operating Model, promoting consistent governance, processes, controls and ways of working across internal teams and outsourced partners.

Core Skills & Experience

• Experience delivering commercial real estate transactions in a client-side, corporate occupier or advisory environment.
• Strong programme and project management capability, with a track record of managing multiple concurrent workstreams stakeholders, risks, budgets and delivery plans through to completion.
• Demonstrated ability to manage complex delivery activities, exercise sound judgement, resolve delivery challenges and escalates issues appropriately to support effective decision-making.
• Commercially aware, with strong negotiation, financial analysis, options appraisal, business case and risk management skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills, including the ability to align diverse internal functions and communicate effectively with senior decision-makers.
• Experience directing multidisciplinary external advisers and outsourced delivery partners, with clear expectations, accountability and performance oversight.
• Experience implementing process improvement, operating model change or business transformation programmes.
• Good understanding of leases, heads of terms, transaction documentation, property due diligence and the interaction between real estate, legal, finance and operational requirements.
• Knowledge across all landlord and tenant activities including lease event management, rent reviews, lease renewals, regears.
• Highly organised and detail-focused, with disciplined governance, reporting and document management.
• Confident using portfolio, programme, project and financial data to produce meaningful reporting, support decision-making and communicate progress clearly.

Qualifications

• Degree-level qualification in real estate, surveying, business, project management or a related discipline is preferred.
• Typically, 2 – 4 years relevant commercial real estate transaction or programme delivery experience.

Behaviours & Personal Qualities

• Delivery-focused and accountable, with the resilience to see complex programmes, projects and initiatives through to a successful outcome.
• Proactive, pragmatic and solution-oriented, while maintaining appropriate governance and controls.
• Clear and credible communicator who adapts their style operational, technical and executive audiences.
• Collaborative and able to build trust across internal teams and external partners.
• Comfortable working with ambiguity, competing priorities and evolving business requirements, while supporting timely and informed decision-making.
• Acts with integrity, demonstrates sound judgement and applies a strong client-side mindset when balancing delivery, governance and business priorities.

Cushman & Wakefield is an equal opportunity / affirmative action employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, disability, religion, marital status, or any other legally protected characteristic.

Cushman & Wakefield is committed to equity in employment, and our goal is to have a diverse, inclusive and barrier-free workplace.

If you are a person with a disability and need any other accessible accommodations during the hiring process, you are invited to bring this to the Talent Acquisition Advisor’s attention once they have made contact.

INCO: “Cushman & Wakefield” About Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) is a leading global commercial real estate services firm for occupiers and investors with approximately 53,000 employees in over 350 offices and nearly 60 countries. In 2025, the firm reported revenue of $10.3 billion across its core service lines of services, Leasing, Capital markets, and Valuation and other. Built around the belief that Better never settles, the firm receives numerous industry and business accolades for its award-winning culture. For additional information, visit www.cushmanwakefield.com