Are you an ambitious transformation professional with a passion for business analysis, change and process improvement? The Strategy & Transformation team at CBRE Investment Management is seeking a Senior Manager to join on a fixed-term basis, covering a 12-month maternity leave. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career within a high-calibre global team and contribute to meaningful transformation work in a leading real assets investment management firm.
About The Team And Role
The Business Transformation team, part of the Strategy & Transformation function, drive strategic transformation programmes across CBRE Investment Management’s global organisation seeking to improve business performance. You will partner directly with senior leaders to define challenges, shape future-state solutions and drive measurable adoption. Workstreams may be business-driven (process, policy or operating model redesign), analytically complex (data analysis, requirements architecture) or cross-functional, and will draw on deep industry, institutional and technical expertise. Critically, this role requires the ability to embed credibly within business teams as a trusted change agent, augmenting Subject Matter Expert (SME) capability while maintaining the structure and rigour of a senior transformation practitioner.
Your Key Responsibilities
- Manage transformation workstreams end-to-end, from problem framing and stakeholder alignment through solution design, business readiness and lasting adoption.
- Run current-state assessments (process mapping, data-flow analysis, control evaluation) and design future states with clear, measurable performance targets.
- Apply business-architecture and systems-thinking principles to develop options, weigh trade-offs and recommend the strongest solution.
- Conduct business analysis tasks such as research, data analysis, stakeholder interviews, requirements gathering and gap analysis to shape transformation initiatives.
- Prepare and present findings, recommendations and status updates to business stakeholders, adapting your message to the audience.
- Drive change management activities, including impact assessments, communication plans, training and adoption tracking.
- Embed within business teams as a change agent, coaching SMEs, building new capabilities and driving adoption of new ways of working.
- Partner with technology and project teams, translating business needs into requirements and supporting UAT, test scripting and release.
- Contribute to a collaborative team, sharing knowledge, seeking feedback and growing your skills across change, analysis and investment management.
Requirements
- Minimum of 7 years of relevant working experience within a financial services organisation, ideally investment management, fund accounting/ administration or commercial property
- Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Real Estate or Technology, or equivalent professional experience
- Experience with business analysis techniques and tools, including process reengineering, requirements gathering, solutions with a methodical and detail-oriented approach to understanding problems and documenting solutions
- Track record of leading change management initiatives, designing and executing implementation strategies that deliver sustainable behavioural and operational change
- Organised, proactive and capable of managing your own workload and deadlines effectively when given clear direction
- Comfortable engaging with business stakeholders and can communicate findings and recommendations clearly, both in writing and in person
- Ability to embed credibly within a business team to operate as a trusted partner and change agent while maintaining transformation discipline and independence of perspective
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