CBRE Project Management Consultant

Job Description

Project Manager (ICT) | CBRE

The Tone:
This is a full-time role at CBRE, focusing on Project Management Consulting. CBRE delivers strategic business objectives for clients by providing expert project management services, specifically for real estate projects. This role is crucial for managing the entire project lifecycle, from initiation through completion, ensuring successful outcomes and client satisfaction. The Project Manager (ICT) will serve as a key consultant, guiding complex assignments and driving results through broad guidelines and policies.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: In-person, Malaysia

• Team: Part of the Project Management function, directing project delivery teams.
• Mission: Manage real estate projects from initiation to completion, ensuring alignment with client and company strategic objectives.
• Tech Stack: Microsoft Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Project Lifecycle Management: Oversee all aspects of singular real estate projects, encompassing comprehensive planning, intricate design phases, meticulous construction, smooth occupancy transitions, and thorough project closeout.
• Client Collaboration & Resource Procurement: Partner directly with clients to meticulously define project parameters, including scope of work, detailed cost estimates and budgets, resource requirements, work plan schedules, quality control measures, and proactive risk identification. This also involves defining and procuring project delivery resources through formal qualification processes, conducting RFP evaluations, and recommending optimal resources.
• Documentation Governance & Data Integrity: Implement and maintain robust project documentation governance frameworks, ensuring strict adherence to both company and client requirements. This includes actively ensuring that all project data and documentation are consistently accurate, timely, and well-coordinated across all phases.
• Team Direction & Performance Oversight: Provide clear guidance and direction to the project delivery team to achieve established goals, creating precise action plans to meet objectives, budget constraints, and schedules. Continuously track project progress, report on status, and analyze variances to maintain project health.
• Risk Mitigation & Expertise Sharing: Proactively identify potential project threats and develop comprehensive risk mitigation and contingency plans, implementing decisive action plans to reduce or eliminate identified project risks. Additionally, apply in-depth knowledge of standard principles to accomplish complex assignments and coach other team members by sharing expertise within the function.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Manager-level professional with a Bachelor’s Degree preferred, or a combination of experience and education.
• Experience: 5-8 years of relevant project management experience, preferably within the ICT domain.
• Skills: In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products, strong organizational skills, an advanced inquisitive mindset, sophisticated math skills for financial calculations, and the ability to exercise judgment based on multiple information sources.
• Bonus: LEED AP, PMP, and/or CCM designation(s) preferred.