Company Profile: CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE:CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (in terms of 2012 revenue). The Company has approximately 37,000 employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers through more than 300 offices (excluding affiliates) worldwide. CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting. Please visit our website at www.cbre.com.
Responsibilities:
Summary: The primary role of the Director of Occupier Research is to ensure that the research department is strategically aligned with the objectives of the occupier initiative within CBRE. He/she is responsible for proactively connecting with the service lines to lead discussions and generate ideas for the constant improvement of research-related client facing materials focusing on the occupier perspective. He/she should seek opportunities to participate in client meetings, be visible to the real estate community, seek external speaking opportunities as well as promote the CBRE Research product to the media. He/she will be responsible for spearheading the production of occupier market analysis and timely white papers addressing market trends.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop market trends and indicators for Occupiers
- Interact with various business occupier Leaders within CBRE and the industry
- Analyze market trends and incorporate findings into occupier presentations and white papers
- Constant improvement of research’s client facing materials in partnership with Marketing
- Evaluate processes and tools for developing advanced information and analytics approaches as a key driver of differentiation
- Develop Occupier benchmarks; efficiencies, square feet per employees etc.
- Evaluate opportunities to extract customer relevant insights from existing data
- Other duties may be assigned
Qualifications:
- Strong leadership skills and a positive work attitude
- Solid understanding of the commercial real estate business
- Established expertise in the commercial real estate market
- Prior experience in a Research related function is preferable
- Knowledge of data management and analytics processes
- Excellent decision-making skills
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
- Excellent presentation skills
- Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills
- Strong ability to work well under pressure, with multiple/competing deadlines, on various projects
- Effective working in a team environment and as an individual
- Proficient in use of windows applications such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- A real estate background is required
- An undergraduate degree is required – preferably in business, finance, economics, real estate, or urban planning
- A post graduate degree would be preferred
Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans
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