About the Role:The Alliance Director is the senior client leader for CBRE on a global financial services client account with an international headquarters and a growing presence in the United States. While the portfolio is modest in size, the client is sophisticated, innovation-driven, and operates with high expectations around accountability, safety, technology, and performance. This role is responsible for building trusted executive relationships, leading cross-regional teams, and ensuring consistent, high-quality service delivery across geographies.
Based in New York, the Alliance Director partners closely with global client stakeholders and CBRE leadership to advance operational excellence, strengthen governance and risk culture, and drive innovation across engineering services, data, and emerging technologies. This role requires a strong on-site presence and is expected to work in the office
five days per week, particularly during the initial transition period, as the account enters a critical phase of transformation and long-term partnership evolution.
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 business strategies to achieve profitable relationships and identify new revenue opportunities.
- Build and maintain effective long-term client relationships and a high level of satisfaction. Formulate, negotiate, and execute contracts utilizing internal expert resources.
- Prepare and submit short and long-range plans and strategies to clients using available marketing programs to reach nominated targets.
- Direct new business efforts with current accounts. Source new business opportunities and engage the field accordingly.
- Conduct regular status and strategy meetings with the client's management to understand needs.
- Evaluate industry and business trends and review and identify performance across the strategic account. Review data for potential impact on new business and operations and respond with business changes. Achieve revenue targets by increasing spend per account.
- Apply a robust knowledge of multiple disciplines, the business, and key drivers which impact departmental and cross-functional performance.
- Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Persuade managers and other colleagues to take action while being guided by the organization's functional business plans. Negotiate with external partners, vendors, and customers of divergent interests to reach a common goal.
- Identify and solve multi-dimensional, complex, operational, and organizational problems leveraging the appropriate resources within or outside the department.
- Significantly improves and changes existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.
What You'll Need: - Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-12 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered.
- 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 set, manage and achieve targets with a direct impact on multiple departments results within a function.
- In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
- Expert organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future
CBRE carefully considers multiple factors to determine compensation, including a candidate's education, training, and experience. The minimum salary for the Americas Alliance Director position is $240,000 annually and the maximum salary for the Americas Alliance Director position is $260,000 annually. The compensation offered to a successful candidate will depend on their skills, qualifications, and experience. Successful candidates will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus based on CBRE's applicable benefit program. This role will provide the following benefits: 401(K), Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, and Vision insurance.
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CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works with clients to make real estate a meaningful contributor to organizational productivity and performance. Our account management model is at the heart of our client-centric approach to delivering integrated real estate solutions. Each client is entrusted with a dedicated leader and is supported by regional and global resources, leveraging the industry's most robust platform. CBRE GWS delivers consistent, measurably superior outcomes for our clients at every stage of the lifecycle, and across industries and geographies.
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