Organizational Design Consultant/Manager

CBRE; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

CBRE is seeking a Manager-level consultant to partner with C-suite executives and senior leaders within Fortune 500 Corporate Real Estate to design future-ready operating models, governance frameworks, and workforce strategies.

This role is focused on organization design, change, and transformation, offering high visibility and impact across a global market leader outside the Big 4.

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of experience in organization design, operating model design, organizational effectiveness, or management consulting.
• Experience designed future-ready operating models and governance frameworks.
• Strong facilitation, data analysis, and storytelling for senior audiences.

Responsibilities

• Lead organization design and operating model projects to support business transformation and growth.
• Assess current-state structures, roles, spans, and decision-making frameworks.
• Develop future-state designs, governance models, and reporting structures aligned with strategy.
• Facilitate workshops with stakeholders to gather requirements and build alignment.
• Create executive-level presentations with findings, business cases, and roadmaps.

Skills

Organization design

Operating model design

Governance

Workforce planning

Change management

Executive communication

Job description

About CBRE and the Role

CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment company. As we expand our Organization Design, Change & Transformation practice, we are seeking a Manager-level consultant who is passionate about helping organizations evolve, transform, and perform at their best. This role partners directly with C-suite executives and senior leaders within Fortune 500 Corporate Real Estate organizations to design future-ready operating models, organizational structures, governance frameworks, and workforce strategies.

This is an exceptional opportunity for a consultant with approximately 4 to 6 years of experience in organization design, operating model design, organizational effectiveness, or management consulting who wants to make a measurable impact while growing within a global market leader outside the \"Big 4\" consultancies.

What You'll Do:

• Lead organization design and operating model projects that support business transformation, growth initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring efforts, and strategic workforce planning.


• Assess current-state organizational structures, spans and layers, role clarity, decision-making frameworks, workforce composition, and operating model effectiveness.


• Develop future-state organization designs, governance models, reporting structures, and role definitions that align with business strategy and operational objectives.


• Facilitate workshops and stakeholder discussions to gather requirements, evaluate organizational challenges, and build alignment around recommendations.


• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify organizational effectiveness opportunities and support recommendations with fact-based insights.


• Develop implementation plans, change impacts, and transition strategies to support successful adoption of new organizational models.


• Partner with Human Resources, Talent Management, Finance, Corporate Real Estate, and business leaders to ensure organization solutions are scalable and sustainable.


• Provide project management and engagement leadership for organization design initiatives, including work planning, milestone tracking, risk management, stakeholder communications, and deliverable development.


• Create executive-level presentations and reports that communicate findings, recommendations, business cases, and implementation roadmaps.


• Support job architecture, role design, accountability frameworks, and organizational governance initiatives as needed.


• Apply in-depth knowledge of organization design methodologies, operating model frameworks, and organizational effectiveness principles to solve complex business challenges.


• Coach team members and project participants by sharing expertise and leading best practices in organization design and workforce transformation.


• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with company values. Work to build consensus and influence stakeholders to achieve desired outcomes.


• Impact a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities across multiple functions and business units.


• Work within broad guidelines and policies while exercising independent judgment.


• Explain difficult or sensitive information to senior leaders and stakeholders.