Portfolio Strategy Lead Job ID 255683 Posted 12-Jan-2026 Service line GWS Segment Role type Full-time Areas of Interest Consulting Location(s) London - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland **About the role:** As a CBRE Portfolio Strategy Lead, you will provide consulting services to a large global technology client. You’ll oversee our Portfolio Consulting business in multiple geographical locations and guide a collaborative team. This job is part of the Client Consulting function. They are responsible for Portfolio Planning services in relation to real estate operations and investments. Approximately 25% travel may be required. **What You’ll Do:** + Build real estate strategies and consulting for small to medium size clients. + Deliver strategies with assigned clients. Assists with local portfolio strategic initiatives. + Participate in strategic portfolio planning with stakeholders. + Monitor organizational performance and reports on data collected. + Evaluate space rationalization for clients and provides solutions as needed. + Develop strategies to reduce costs for clients. + Assist with consolidation reviews and transactions with clients. + Present reports and studies on location, labor, and retail on properties. + Gain comprehension of the client's business. Ensure that property and location strategies align with the business strategic direction. + Contribute commercial and financial knowledge during strategy development and presentations. + 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. + Apply a broad knowledge of the business, own discipline, and how own discipline integrates with others to achieve team and departmental objectives. + Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Influence others to adopt a different point of view while being guided by policies and departmental plans. + Identify and solve technical and operational problems of complexity. + Understand and recognize the broader impact across the department. + Improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline. **What You’ll Need:** + Bachelor's Degree preferred. 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 motivate the team to achieve broad operational targets with impacts on own job discipline, multiple job disciplines, and department. + In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. + Extensive organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset. **Why CBRE** When you join CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamic problem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significant impact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values — respect, integrity, service and excellence — and we value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity to chart your own course and realize your potential. We welcome all applicants. **Applicant AI Use Disclosure** We value human interaction to understand each candidate's unique experience, skills and aspirations. We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make hiring decisions, and we ask that candidates disclose any use of AI in the application and interview process. CBRE GWS 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. Find out more (https://www.cbre.com/real-estate-services/directory/global-workplace-solutions) CBRE, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer (Women/Minorities/Persons with Disabilities/US Veterans)