
CBRE
Transaction Manager
- Permanent
- Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- Experience 2 - 5 yrs
Job expiry date: 22/01/2026
Job overview
Date posted
08/12/2025
Location
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Salary
AED 20,000 - 30,000 per month
Compensation
Job description
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.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Provide formal supervision to employees including training, development, performance evaluations, and recruitment
- Coordinate and manage daily team activities by establishing work schedules, assigning tasks, and tracking department deadlines
- Implement real estate plans aligned with client strategic goals while supporting project initiation, scope definition, and prioritised assignments
- Act as landlord or seller agent and tenant or buyer agent to negotiate business terms and conditions for transactions
- Coordinate negotiation of sales with field brokers including leases, lease amendments, expiration monitoring, and timely renewals
- Locate and acquire new properties to meet client requirements and timelines
- Review, evaluate, and interpret financial analysis templates to support decision making
- Track transaction and project activity, record savings results, prepare reports, and deliver presentations
- Maintain real estate project tracking systems to ensure timely completion of transactions
- Improve existing methods and processes while recognising broader departmental impacts
- Model CBRE RISE values and influence involved parties toward agreement
- Identify, troubleshoot, and resolve day-to-day and moderately complex issues
Experience & skills
- Hold a bachelor's degree or combination of education and experience
- Possess 3–5 years of relevant transaction management or real estate experience
- Maintain an active real estate salesperson license
- Demonstrate experience in staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, and performance management
- Possess strong communication abilities to handle sensitive and complex information and convey expectations
- Show leadership skills to motivate teams and impact quality, efficiency, and effectiveness
- Exhibit in-depth proficiency with Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Outlook
- Demonstrate strong organisational skills and inquisitive mindset
- Hold advanced math skills for financial-related calculations
- Be fluent in both English and Arabic, verbally and in writing