Managing Director

Managing Director

CBRE – Kansas City , Missouri

Posted: 22-Jul-26

Location: Kansas City , Missouri

Type: Full Time

Categories: Brokerage/Sales/Leasing

Preferred Education: 4 Year Degree

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About The Role: As a CBRE Managing Director, you will manage a team of transaction management professionals responsible for providing real estate services for the client to ensure that the best interests of the client and of CBRE are met.

This job is part of the Brokerage job function. They are responsible for the buying, selling, and letting of residential, office, and commercial properties on behalf of clients for occupation.

What You’ll Do

• 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.
• Grow market share in all core services and maintain and extend competitive advantage.
• Collaborate with Regional Group Presidents and Sr. Management to execute enterprise strategic initiatives.
• Make sure business operations are efficient and cost-effective.
• Ensure broker operating platforms have an advantage over other companies. This includes the areas of recruiting, retaining, and enhancing the productivity of brokerage professionals.
• Achieve insight into market performance against growth and other operational objectives.
• Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Persuade managers and others to act. Negotiate with external partners/vendors/customers of divergent interests.
• Apply robust knowledge of several disciplines, the business, and key drivers; significantly improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within the job discipline.
• Identify and solve multi-dimensional, complex, operational, and organizational problems leveraging the appropriate resources within or outside the department.
• Significantly improve and change existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline.

What You’ll Need

• Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-12 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Real Estate salesperson license preferred (Kansas and Missouri).
• 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 set, manage and achieve targets with a direct impact on multiple department results within a function.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.
• Expert organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.
• Sophisticated math skills. Ability to calculate mildly complex figures such as percentages, fractions, and other financial-related calculations.

About CBRE: We are the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment and a premier provider of critical infrastructure services. With services, insights and data that span every dimension of the industry, we create solutions for clients of every size, in every sector and across every geography.