Business Development Manager - Talent Community

Business Development Manager
- Talent Community

Job

285110

Posted

06-Jul-2026

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Building Management, Facilities Management, Sales & Leasing

Location(s)

Chicago
- Illinois
- United States of America, Cleveland
- Ohio
- United States of America, Columbus
- Ohio
- United States of America, Dallas
- Texas
- United States of America, Detroit
- Michigan
- United States of America, Houston
- Texas
- United States of America, Milwaukee
- Wisconsin
- United States of America, Minneapolis
- Minnesota
- United States of America, Saint Louis
- Missouri
- United States of America, San Antonio
- Texas
- United States of America

CBRE is using this platform to provide general information to individuals who want to learn more about a career  an opportunity opens that matches your qualifications, we will reach out to you at that time. We are growing a world-class organization with a world-class team and appreciate your interest in CBRE. We will not consider the submission of resumes on this platform as an expression of interest in any posted position at CBRE.

Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution. We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients. We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability, resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Classservices, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.

As a CBRE Business Development Manager you will be responsible for developing and closing new business opportunities within target market sectors while providing quality service.

This job is part of the Sales function. They are responsible for the design of sales solutions that are presented and sold to potential, new and existing clients.

• Develop and build long-term, professional customer relationships with existing, new, and potential clients. Maintain relationships and after-sales support to build confidence in line with the agreed business strategy.
• Coordinate sales activity throughout the sales process including qualification, discovery, proposal, pricing presentation, and negotiation.
• Evaluate industry and business trends and evaluate performance and respond with necessary business change.
• Identify and build a sales pipeline. Explore both existing and new target markets.
• Develop and deliver exceptional sales and tender documents and presentations.
• Maintain records and relevant contract documents in support of tenders and re-bids for the business.
• Stay up to date with industry developments, maintaining awareness of competitor activity and market trends.
• Apply in-depth knowledge of standard principles and techniques/procedures to accomplish complex assignments and provide innovative solutions.
• Coach others and share in-depth knowledge of own job discipline and broad knowledge of several job disciplines within the function.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Work to build consensus and convince others to reach an agreement.
• Impact a range of customer, operational, project, or service activities within own team and other related teams.
• Work within broad guidelines and policies.

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 5-8 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Real Estate license required.
• Ability to exercise judgment based on the analysis of multiple sources of information.
• Willingness to take a…