CBRE · 2 days ago
Managing Director, Sustainability Partnerships & Projects
New York, NY
Full-time
Onsite
Lead/StaffCBRE is focused on transforming commercial real estate through sustainability initiatives, and they are seeking a Managing Director to lead their sustainability partnerships and projects. This role involves driving the global commercial strategy for sustainability projects, forging partnerships, and ensuring the delivery of scalable solutions across various sectors.
CommercialFinancial ServicesProperty DevelopmentReal Estate
Responsibilities
Drive Project Growth: Drive growth of scalable retrofit and sustainability projects, designing solutions that can be deployed across thousands of buildings globally through standardized playbooks and repeatable delivery models
Demand Mapping: Map demand across top client portfolios and target high‑impact sectors (e.g., data centers, life sciences, financial services, logistics) where programmatic deployment is feasible
Drive Revenue: Own revenue accountability for project and partnership delivery programs using insights provided by existing CBRE service lines
Orchestrate: Act as the bridge between partners and CBRE’s field execution resources, ensuring integrated client delivery
Build the Delivery Network: Build and manage a tech‑enabled global delivery ecosystem—partners, OEMs, integrators—that supports scalable and repeatable project execution
Innovation Piloting: Collaborate cross-functionally to establish an "innovation piloting" program that tests and validates technologies in distinct sectors before scaling them globally
Data-Driven Validation: Determine Measurement & Verification (M&V) metrics for project success, quantifying energy savings, asset value effects, and carbon impact to validate the business case for broader expansion
Go-to-Market Strategy: Lead the development and execution of go-to-market plans for partnership-driven project solutions, ensuring alignment with global client needs
Audit & Stabilize: Review "in-flight" collaborations and evolve existing processes to ensure immediate project continuity
Supply-Demand Match: Map the landscape of partners against the retrofit needs of our top clients
Pilot Launch: Operationalize a pilot processing program to deploy specific technologies (e.g., electrification, storage) in target geographies
Metric Definition: Establish the data validation metrics required to prove ROI to client investment committees
Qualification
Required
Strong business development experience in sustainability projects
Experience in commercial real estate or related fields
Proven ability to drive project growth and revenue accountability
Experience in orchestrating partnerships and managing third-party relationships
Ability to build and manage a tech-enabled global delivery ecosystem
Experience in developing go-to-market strategies for project solutions
Strong analytical skills to determine Measurement & Verification (M&V) metrics
Ability to collaborate cross-functionally and lead innovation piloting programs
Experience in mapping demand across client portfolios and sectors
Company
CBRE
Operating across every dimension of commercial real estate, CBRE sees more so you can do more.
Founded in 1906
10001+ employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Public CompanyTotal Funding
$3.8BKey Investors
Athene Capital
2025-11-05Post Ipo Debt· $750M
2025-04-29Post Ipo Debt· $1.1B
2024-02-20Post Ipo Debt· $500M
Leadership Team
Adam Gallistel
Co-CEO and CIO
Andrew Glanzman
Chief Executive Officer of CBRE’s Real Estate Investments
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