About the Role:This role is responsible for leading programs across complex, cross-functional initiatives in support of Salesforce, a dynamic and fast-evolving global client. The Program Manager will drive the successful planning, coordination, and execution of strategic programs that advance the client's global real estate portfolio and workplace initiatives.
Partnering closely with internal teams and client stakeholders, this individual ensures alignment across regions, maintains governance standards, mitigates risk, and delivers measurable outcomes that support broader business and real estate objectives. This position plays a critical role in translating strategy into execution within a highly collaborative, global environment.
What You'll Do:- Lead complex cross-functional projects and programs end-to-end, partnering closely with the Real Estate Business Partner and Real Estate Workplace Innovation & Research teams to advance strategic real estate initiatives, and workplace innovation priorities across the portfolio
- Drive program governance by facilitating the development of project charters, integrated timelines, and clear deliverables to ensure alignment across functions and regions.
- Document, refine, and continuously improve processes through playbook creation and updates, ensuring scalable, repeatable best practices that support global real estate execution.
- Monitor project milestones and performance against client-defined deadlines, proactively identifying risks, resolving issues, and escalating when necessary to maintain momentum.
- Facilitate regular project pipeline and status meetings, ensuring active and pending initiatives remain on track and aligned with broader portfolio strategy.
- Partner with cross-functional teams to develop solutions, guide implementation, and drive successful project completion.
- Provide clear, concise reporting on individual projects and program-level performance, synthesizing complex information into executive-ready updates.
- Build and manage strong internal and external stakeholder relationships, serving as a trusted partner in support of the client's evolving global real estate priorities.
- Create, maintain, and distribute routine PMO deliverables, including status reports, dashboards, and updated project schedules (Gantt charts).
- Provide consultation and strategic support on interconnected initiatives that roll into broader real estate programs.
- Perform other duties as assigned in support of program and account objectives.
What You'll Need:To perform this job successfully, an individual will need to perform each crucial duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from 4-year college or university. Minimum four years of related experience. Prior Supervisory experience preferred.
- PgMP (Program Management Professional) or PMP (Project Management Professional) certifications preferred but not required.
- Outstanding problem-solving and decision-making skills with a strong general business discernment and ability to distill sophisticated issues, develop solutions and implement effective strategies
- Identify and execute on the implementation of process improvements to automate and scale real estate operations
- Leverage existing data sources to develop dashboard reporting on key metrics to monitor the financial and operational performance against budget and industry benchmarks
- Flexible and comfortable pivoting quickly, ability to handle multiple high-visibility projects
- simultaneously
- Outstanding organizational skills and attention to detail
- Proactive, self-starter and high degree of motivation
- Highly responsive and service-oriented demeanor
- Ability to operate in a high impact, fast-paced environment with ambiguity
- Ability to think strategically and act in a detailed, hands-on manner
- Experience working in a results-driven, solutions-oriented, and fast-paced environment with competing priorities
- Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for 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 this position is $125,000 annually and the maximum salary for this position is $155,000 annually. The compensation that is offered to a successful candidate will depend on the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. This role will provide the following benefits: 401(K), Dental insurance, Health insurance, Life insurance, and Vision insurance.
