Manager - Organisation Design

About the role

CBRE UK is expanding its Organisation Design Consulting capability and is seeking a Director/Manager-level consultant to lead the delivery of organisation design and operating model engagements across the real estate and built environment sector. The successful individual will play a key role in the delivery and growth of our organisation design practice, with a particular focus on clients in the real estate and built environment sector. This role is ideal for an experienced consultant who enjoys translating strategy into practical organisation design solutions, leading complex client engagements, and developing trusted relationships with senior stakeholders. While our work is concentrated in the real estate industry, prior sector experience is not required - we are looking for strong organisation design capability, sound judgment, and a collaborative consulting mindset.

This role will play a key role in building and strengthening our organisation design practice. We value individuals who combine deep expertise with an entrepreneurial mindset - someone who is comfortable innovating and developing new approaches as we expand our presence in the market. You will lead delivery on organisation design engagements, manage project teams, and contribute to the development of our growing practice.

What you will be doing:

• Client Delivery Leadership
  • 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 Expertise
  • Apply organisation design principles across areas such as target operating models, 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
• Team Leadership & Development
  • 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

What you will need:

• Experience in management consulting, internal consulting, or advisory roles
• Strong experience delivering organisation design or operating model engagements
• Comfortable working with senior stakeholders and navigating complex organisational dynamics
• Experience leading project teams and managing consulting engagements
• Industry experience is flexible - real estate experience is not required
• Deep understanding of organisation design principles and frameworks
• 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
• 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

Working at CBRE

When you join CBRE you will have the support and resources of a global firm where an entrepreneurial mind-set is encouraged. You'll realise your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. To enable your success, we provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry. Our collaborative culture is built on our RISE values and reflects the needs and perspectives of our clients and our people. Our work is guided by our North Star: Creating the real estate solutions of tomorrow, so businesses and people thrive. This informs everything we do - from diversity, equity, and inclusion to sustainability initiatives to workplace safety and wellbeing.

At CBRE, we believe that the more perspectives we have, the more dimensions we see. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences across industries to apply for open positions even if you do not match every element of the required skills.

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Equal Opportunities

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