CBRE Group, Inc.
Bristol, Gloucestershire
Area General ManagerArea General ManagerJob ID241415Posted23-Nov-2025Service lineGWS SegmentRole typeFull-timeAreas of InterestFacilities ManagementLocation(s)Bristol - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandCompany ProfileCBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) is a division of CBRE uniquely positioned to provide a complete set of services to corporate occupiers of commercial real estate across EMEA. GWS is redefining 'workplace' because we believe every place of work can become a competitive advantage for our clients. Productivity, reliability, engagement, quality, brand - the workplace contributes to business results, whether it's an office, a retail outlet, a laboratory, a data centre, a manufacturing environment or a virtual location.Job Title: Area General ManagerCBRE Global Workplace Solutions, leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management, are recruiting an Area General Manager to join the team located in Bristol.Job PurposeProviding leadership, management, and development of an agreed portfolio of CBRE contracts, ensuring financial, and operational commitments are met and exceeded.Key Responsibilities• Provide leadership, and ensuring the planned development of a defined portfolio of contracts to ensure that contractual commitments are met and exceeded.• Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of contracts are exploited, to deliver increased turnover and profitability, ensure additional services and projects are added, and contracts are re-won on re-tender.• Ensuring business policies and processes are effectively communicated, and implemented within contracts.• Ensure that contracts provide a healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both CBRE and subcontractors activities, and systems operate to ensure regular review.• Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence. Ensure structures support peaks and troughs in workload, disaster recovery, and the sharing of expertise across the portfolio.• Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, taking direct responsibility for the appointment of contract managers, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.• Working with other Operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.• Development of financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded.• Ensure appropriate contract review, audit and control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.• Ensuring a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.• Promoting and maintaining the core Values of CBRE.• Provision of leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.• Supporting effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.• Supporting the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings, hosting visits, and support to mobilisation as required on new contracts.• Ensure the provision of a learning environment, and appropriate training and development planning. Ensure basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and are able to reach their full future potential.Accountabilities• Accountability to the CBRE functional heads, as appropriate.• Accountable day-to-day to the relevant client contacts.• Line management responsibility for a small team, primarily comprising contract managers across a portfolio of contracts.• Financial responsibility for the delivery of Plan commitments for the contract portfolio.Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:• Proven track record within the facilities management industry.• The development and review of teams, appraisal, and the application of effective people management practice.• Excellent motivational and influencing skills, with high levels of personal integrity.• Incumbents must be self-starters, confident and composed.• Organised, able to prioritise and deliver within high pressure, business critical environments.• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical delivery for client satisfaction.• Excellent understanding of health & safety legislation.• Ability to gain trust and support of top-level management and key client decision makers.• Experienced client relationship manager.• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective management of people at all levels of the organisation.• Strong financial skills.• Ability to manage conflict and crisis situations effectively.Share this job: Share Area General Manager with a friend via e-mail Join our Talent CommunityKeep up to date with exciting career opportunities and the latest news.
Area General ManagerArea General ManagerJob ID241415Posted23-Nov-2025Service lineGWS SegmentRole typeFull-timeAreas of InterestFacilities ManagementLocation(s)Bristol - England - United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandCompany ProfileCBRE is the global leader in real estate services and leverages the industry's most powerful knowledge base to meet the commercial real estate needs of its clients worldwide. Our vision is to be the preeminent, vertically integrated, globally capable real estate service firm. Globally we employ over 70,000 employees and operate in 48 countries.Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) is a division of CBRE uniquely positioned to provide a complete set of services to corporate occupiers of commercial real estate across EMEA. GWS is redefining 'workplace' because we believe every place of work can become a competitive advantage for our clients. Productivity, reliability, engagement, quality, brand - the workplace contributes to business results, whether it's an office, a retail outlet, a laboratory, a data centre, a manufacturing environment or a virtual location.Job Title: Area General ManagerCBRE Global Workplace Solutions, leading global provider of integrated facilities and corporate real estate management, are recruiting an Area General Manager to join the team located in Bristol.Job PurposeProviding leadership, management, and development of an agreed portfolio of CBRE contracts, ensuring financial, and operational commitments are met and exceeded.Key Responsibilities• Provide leadership, and ensuring the planned development of a defined portfolio of contracts to ensure that contractual commitments are met and exceeded.• Ensure that opportunities for the strategic development of contracts are exploited, to deliver increased turnover and profitability, ensure additional services and projects are added, and contracts are re-won on re-tender.• Ensuring business policies and processes are effectively communicated, and implemented within contracts.• Ensure that contracts provide a healthy and safe working conditions and that both clients and Company health and safety policy and process is effectively implemented across both CBRE and subcontractors activities, and systems operate to ensure regular review.• Ensure optimum staffing structures operate across contracts, balancing cost reduction with the delivery of service excellence. Ensure structures support peaks and troughs in workload, disaster recovery, and the sharing of expertise across the portfolio.• Ensure contracts are staffed by fully competent teams, taking direct responsibility for the appointment of contract managers, ensuring post holders are fully competent, and that effective succession planning arrangements are in place.• Working with other Operational managers to ensure the collaborative development of the business, effective teamworking, and support to colleagues.• Development of financial plans for revenue and profit delivery, reduction of WIP, debt, cost reduction and contract growth, and ensure that these are met and exceeded.• Ensure appropriate contract review, audit and control systems to ensure statutory, policy and contractual commitments are met.• Ensuring a customer focus within all areas of operational activities, and that effective relationships are maintained with key client contacts.• Promoting and maintaining the core Values of CBRE.• Provision of leadership and guidance, advice, coaching and direct support, where required to deliver best practice selection, training, assessment and recognition/reward.• Supporting effective business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management and team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other publications, as appropriate.• Supporting the sales process through solutions development, participation in presentations and consultation meetings, hosting visits, and support to mobilisation as required on new contracts.• Ensure the provision of a learning environment, and appropriate training and development planning. Ensure basic training needs are delivered, employees are fully competent to undertake their roles, and are able to reach their full future potential.Accountabilities• Accountability to the CBRE functional heads, as appropriate.• Accountable day-to-day to the relevant client contacts.• Line management responsibility for a small team, primarily comprising contract managers across a portfolio of contracts.• Financial responsibility for the delivery of Plan commitments for the contract portfolio.Experience, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:• Proven track record within the facilities management industry.• The development and review of teams, appraisal, and the application of effective people management practice.• Excellent motivational and influencing skills, with high levels of personal integrity.• Incumbents must be self-starters, confident and composed.• Organised, able to prioritise and deliver within high pressure, business critical environments.• Ability to balance strategic thinking with tactical delivery for client satisfaction.• Excellent understanding of health & safety legislation.• Ability to gain trust and support of top-level management and key client decision makers.• Experienced client relationship manager.• Excellent influencing and negotiation skills.• Excellent interpersonal skills for effective management of people at all levels of the organisation.• Strong financial skills.• Ability to manage conflict and crisis situations effectively.Share this job: Share Area General Manager with a friend via e-mail Join our Talent CommunityKeep up to date with exciting career opportunities and the latest news.
CBRE Group, Inc.
Building Consultancy - Technical Due Diligence / London Associate Director Building Surveyor Role Purpose This opportunity provides a role for an Associate Director level candidate to join our London Technical Due Diligence team undertaking a wide range of commercially focused, professional building consultancy work for a variety of investor and corporate occupier clients within the UK and across EMEA ranging from single assets to large portfolios and platform deals. Practice areas that are expected of the candidate include technical due diligence for investment and occupier purposes, dilapidations for both landlord and tenants, contract administration, refurbishment works and maintenance advice (PPMs). Key Responsibilities To assist and take the lead role in the successful implementation and delivery of professional building consultancy advice to a range of clients in relation to technical due diligence instructions and other general building surveying advice. Take responsibility for the management of client and project teams to deliver building surveying instructions profitability and on time. Work closely with other CBRE colleagues and departments to grow relationships and business opportunities. Projects to include but not restricted to: Building surveys for investment of occupational purposes; Defect analysis and providing commercial advice to clients; Preparation of Schedules of Dilapidations and negotiating claims on behalf of either landlord or tenant; Preparation of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules; Lead Consultancy and Contract Administration role(s); Looks for opportunities to bring and build value, delivering client solutions which exceed expectations; To positively contribute to the team and department business plan and to assist in achieving its objectives. Ability to build teams appropriate to the delivery of client advice, with the correct mix of experience, skills and commerciality. Comply with CBRE's policies and management systems. Work in compliance with Quality Management procedures. Person Specification MRICS qualified with at 3 years relevant post qualification experience, appropriate to the role. Good communication and interpersonal skills. Able to work as part of a team, supporting others. Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a project. Present a professional knowledgeable persona and possess business acumen. Build, develop and maintain existing business and client relationships. Organise and prioritise tasks so that they are completed within an agreed time frame. Provide concise and clear written communication. Good appreciation of professional and project building surveying matters. Understand the basics of the local and wider property market and CBRE's services. Able to contribute to business development activities. Able to plan and manage own workload. Able to delegate whilst maintaining accountability and ensuring delivery. Articulate and excellent attention to detail. Confident and assertive where required. Flexible approach to work. Willing to travel through the UK and across EMEA, as required. Driving licence. Equal Opportunities We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. For information about accommodations we can make during the recruitment process, please visit
Building Consultancy - Technical Due Diligence / London Associate Director Building Surveyor Role Purpose This opportunity provides a role for an Associate Director level candidate to join our London Technical Due Diligence team undertaking a wide range of commercially focused, professional building consultancy work for a variety of investor and corporate occupier clients within the UK and across EMEA ranging from single assets to large portfolios and platform deals. Practice areas that are expected of the candidate include technical due diligence for investment and occupier purposes, dilapidations for both landlord and tenants, contract administration, refurbishment works and maintenance advice (PPMs). Key Responsibilities To assist and take the lead role in the successful implementation and delivery of professional building consultancy advice to a range of clients in relation to technical due diligence instructions and other general building surveying advice. Take responsibility for the management of client and project teams to deliver building surveying instructions profitability and on time. Work closely with other CBRE colleagues and departments to grow relationships and business opportunities. Projects to include but not restricted to: Building surveys for investment of occupational purposes; Defect analysis and providing commercial advice to clients; Preparation of Schedules of Dilapidations and negotiating claims on behalf of either landlord or tenant; Preparation of Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM) schedules; Lead Consultancy and Contract Administration role(s); Looks for opportunities to bring and build value, delivering client solutions which exceed expectations; To positively contribute to the team and department business plan and to assist in achieving its objectives. Ability to build teams appropriate to the delivery of client advice, with the correct mix of experience, skills and commerciality. Comply with CBRE's policies and management systems. Work in compliance with Quality Management procedures. Person Specification MRICS qualified with at 3 years relevant post qualification experience, appropriate to the role. Good communication and interpersonal skills. Able to work as part of a team, supporting others. Able to work as part of a multi-disciplinary team to deliver a project. Present a professional knowledgeable persona and possess business acumen. Build, develop and maintain existing business and client relationships. Organise and prioritise tasks so that they are completed within an agreed time frame. Provide concise and clear written communication. Good appreciation of professional and project building surveying matters. Understand the basics of the local and wider property market and CBRE's services. Able to contribute to business development activities. Able to plan and manage own workload. Able to delegate whilst maintaining accountability and ensuring delivery. Articulate and excellent attention to detail. Confident and assertive where required. Flexible approach to work. Willing to travel through the UK and across EMEA, as required. Driving licence. Equal Opportunities We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age. For information about accommodations we can make during the recruitment process, please visit