Manager - Organisation Design

CBRE UK is expanding its Organisation Design Consulting capability and is seeking a Director/Manager-level consultant to lead complex client engagements focused on organisation design, organisational effectiveness and related business transformation challenges across the real estate and built environment sector. This role is ideal for an experienced management consultant with a strong track record of leading complex client engagements, managing senior stakeholder relationships, and delivering high-quality advisory services.

We are looking for an individual with strong consulting fundamentals, including structured problem solving, executive facilitation, programme leadership, stakeholder management, and team leadership. The successful candidate will be comfortable managing multiple engagements simultaneously, developing trusted client relationships, and contributing to business development and account growth activities. Experience delivering organisation design, organisational effectiveness, operating model, workforce, or transformation-related engagements would be advantageous, although deep specialisation in organisation design is not essential. This role will play a key role in building and strengthening our organisation design practice.

You will lead delivery on organisation design engagements, manage project teams, and contribute to the development of our growing practice. We welcome individuals who bring broader consulting experience and who are interested in applying their consulting toolkit to organisational challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the end-to-end delivery of organisation design engagements, from diagnostic through to implementation planning
• Design and facilitate senior-level workshops (e.g. strategy-to-structure, operating model design, role clarity, decision rights)
• Translate business strategy into clear organisation structures, role definitions, governance models, data and metrics strategy, and ways of working
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior client stakeholders, including executives and functional leaders
• Manage multiple workstreams and ensure high-quality, timely delivery across engagements

Organisation Design Focus

• Apply organisation design principles across areas such as: Organisation structures and layering, Role and capability design, Accountability, decision rights, and governance, Ways of working and collaboration models
• Balance conceptual rigour with practical, implementable solutions
• Support clients through change implications arising from organisation design work
• Lead and mentor consultants and senior consultants on project teams
• Provide day-to-day coaching, feedback, and quality assurance on deliverables
• Contribute to a positive, inclusive, and high-performance team culture

Practice Growth & Development

• Contribute to the development of organisation design methodologies, tools, and points of view
• Support business development through proposal development, scoping discussions, and client conversations
• Share insights, learning, and emerging best practice across the practice
• Help shape the evolution of our organisation design offering within a growing consulting practice

About YouExperience & Background

• Typically, 7+ years’ experience in management consulting, internal consulting, or advisory roles
• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and navigating complex organisational dynamics
• Experience leading project teams and managing consulting engagements
• Experience contributing to account growth through opportunity identification and driving business development for the practice
• Experience delivering organisation design, organisational effectiveness or related consulting engagement is beneficial but not a prerequisite
• Industry experience is flexible — real estate experience is not required

Skills & Capabilities

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to simplify complexity
• Excellent facilitation, communication, and stakeholder management skills
• Able to balance strategic thinking with pragmatic delivery
• Commercially minded, with experience contributing to proposals or client development
• Confident operating in ambiguity within a growing and evolving practice

Personal Attributes

• Collaborative, thoughtful, and values-driven
• Curious and motivated to learn about new industries and business models
• Calm and credible under pressure
• Passionate about helping organisations work better for their people and their performance

Why Join Us

• Opportunity to play a meaningful role in a growing organisation design practice
• Exposure to senior clients and complex, impactful transformation work
• A culture that values quality, integrity, and thoughtful consulting
• Real scope to shape offerings, ways of working, and the future direction of the practice

Why CBRE

When you join CBRE, you become part of the global leader in commercial real estate services and investment that helps businesses and people thrive. We are dynamic problem solvers and forward-thinking professionals who create significant impact. Our collaborative culture is built on our shared values — respect, integrity, service and excellence — and we value the diverse perspectives, backgrounds and skillsets of our people. At CBRE, you have the opportunity to chart your own course and realize your potential. We welcome all applicants. We value human interaction to understand each candidate's unique experience, skills and aspirations. We do not use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to make hiring decisions, and we ask that candidates disclose any use of AI in the application and interview process.