Contract Support Associate - St. Louis, MO

CBRE Group, Inc.; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE Group, Inc. in the United States is seeking a Contract Support Associate to provide exceptional customer service and administrative support to a large Business Unit, Facility, or Account. You will manage contractual service delivery and support financial tracking and reporting.

You will respond to client inquiries, understand contract scope, coordinate vendors, review invoices, and assist with monthly contract reviews. This role emphasizes accuracy, efficiency, and safety compliance.

Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED with 3-4 years of related experience.
• Understanding of business processes, systems, and concepts in the function.
• Ability to communicate complex information concisely.

Responsibilities

• Respond to client inquiries and ensure timely service delivery.
• Understand contract scope and ensure work follows requirements.
• Champion financial and operational systems to identify cost savings.
• Onboard vendors for reactive and planned work and manage paperwork.
• Review invoices, code costs, and coordinate quotations and purchase orders.
• Support monthly reporting and assist with health and safety compliance.

Skills

Microsoft Office

Organizational skills

Advanced math skills

Analytical thinking

Education

High School Diploma or GED

Job description

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability, resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

About the Role:

As a CBRE Contract Support Associate, you will provide exceptional customer service and administrative support to a large Business Unit, Facility, or Account. This job is part of the Contract Quality Management job function. They are responsible for managing the delivery of contractual services to ensure requirements are fulfilled.

What You'll Do:

• Respond to client inquiries and concerns and ensure timely and quality service delivery and follow-up to ensure satisfaction.
• Understand the scope of the contract and make sure that all work is carried out accordingly.
• Be a financial and operational systems champion. Suggest efforts to put in place cost-saving opportunities to maximize customer and financial savings targets.
• Coordinate and onboard vendors for reactive and planned works and manage sub-contractor paperwork.
• Review processed invoices and ensure accurate cost center coding. Coordinate the billing application, calculating margins, raising invoices, and submitting to clients. Work closely with site teams and head office, ensuring accurate processing of quotations and purchase orders.
• Review and approve maintenance billing invoices and projects as per contracted agreements. Ensure consistent delivery of core operational and financial outputs on the account.
• Respond to inquiries on financial reports for Accounts Receivable, Payable, and open POs.
• Deliver monthly reporting support on Contract and Business Unit Reviews.
• Assist in ensuring compliance with Health & Safety requirements, including HSE reporting and promoting a safe work environment. Maintain QHSE documentation and ensure it is available using company systems.
• Gather and analyze data to identify and solve complex problems that arise with little or no precedent. May recommend new techniques.
• Impact own team and other teams whose work activities are closely related.
• Suggest improvements to existing processes and solutions to improve the efficiency of the team.

What You'll Need:

• High School Diploma or GED with 3-4 years of job-related experience.
• A comprehensive understanding of a range of processes, procedures, systems, and concepts within own job function is required.
• Ability to evaluate and communicate unusual and/or complex content in a concise and logical way.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Organizational skills with an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Advanced math skills. Ability to calculate advanced figures such as percentages, discounts, and markups.

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 -

We value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people.

At CBRE, you have the opportunity to chart your own course and realize your potential.

We welcome all applicants.

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.