Transaction Manager
by CBRE in Real Estate Development & Property Management
The role manages a team responsible for ongoing real estate transaction activities across a small to medium property portfolio for corporate clients within CBRE’s Brokerage function, which handles buying, selling, and letting of residential, office, and commercial properties. Responsibilities include supervising employees, monitoring training and development, conducting performance evaluations, overseeing recruitment, coordinating daily team activities, establishing work schedules, assigning tasks, and tracking department deadlines. The job requires implementing real estate plans aligned with client strategic goals, assisting with project initiation, scope definition, prioritisation of assignments, and ensuring adherence to client-driven commitments and milestones. Duties include acting as landlord or seller agent and tenant or buyer agent to negotiate business terms and conditions, coordinating negotiation of sales through field brokers, negotiating leases, lease amendments, monitoring expirations, securing renewals, and acquiring new properties to meet client requirements. Additional responsibilities include reviewing and interpreting financial analysis templates, tracking transaction and project activity, recording savings achieved on behalf of clients, preparing reports, making presentations, and maintaining real estate project tracking systems. The role also involves improving existing processes and methods, recognising broader departmental impacts, modelling CBRE RISE values, influencing parties to reach agreements, integrating knowledge across disciplines, and troubleshooting moderately complex issues arising in systems and processes. Requirements include a bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience, 3–5 years of relevant experience, a real estate salesperson license, experience in staffing and performance management, strong communication skills for handling sensitive information, leadership abilities, in-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office, organisational skills, math proficiency for financial calculations, and fluency in English and Arabic.