Business Transformation Senior Manager (Maternity Cover)

Are you an ambitious transformation professional with a passion for business analysis, change and process improvement? The Strategy & Transformation team at CBRE Investment Management is seeking a Senior Manager to join on a fixed-term basis, covering a 12-month maternity leave. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your career within a high-calibre global team and contribute to meaningful transformation work in a leading real assets investment management firm.

About the team and role

The Business Transformation team, part of the Strategy & Transformation function, drives strategic transformation programmes across CBRE Investment Management's global organisation seeking to improve business performance. You will partner directly with senior leaders to define challenges, shape future state solutions and drive measurable adoption. Workstreams may be business driven (process, policy or operating model redesign), analytically complex (data analysis, requirements architecture) or cross functional, and will draw on deep industry, institutional and technical expertise. Critically, this role requires the ability to embed credibly within business teams as a trusted change agent, augmenting Subject Matter Expert (SME) capability while maintaining the structure and rigour of a senior transformation practitioner.

Your key responsibilities

• Manage transformation workstreams end to end, from problem framing and stakeholder alignment through solution design, business readiness and lasting adoption.
• Run current state assessments (process mapping, data flow analysis, control evaluation) and design future states with clear, measurable performance targets.
• Apply business architecture and systems thinking principles to develop options, weigh trade offs and recommend the strongest solution.
• Conduct business analysis tasks such as research, data analysis, stakeholder interviews, requirements gathering and gap analysis to shape transformation initiatives.
• Prepare and present findings, recommendations and status updates to business stakeholders, adapting your message to the audience.
• Drive change management activities, including impact assessments, communication plans, training and adoption tracking.
• Embed within business teams as a change agent, coaching SMEs, building new capabilities and driving adoption of new ways of working.
• Partner with technology and project teams, translating business needs into requirements and supporting UAT, test scripting and release.
• Contribute to a collaborative team, sharing knowledge, seeking feedback and growing your skills across change, analysis and investment management.

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of relevant working experience within a financial services organisation, ideally investment management, fund accounting/ administration or commercial property
• Bachelor's degree in business, Finance, Real Estate or Technology, or equivalent professional experience
• Experience with business analysis techniques and tools, including process reengineering, requirements gathering, solutions with a methodical and detail oriented approach to understanding problems and documenting solutions
• Track record of leading change management initiatives, designing and executing implementation strategies that deliver sustainable behavioural and operational change
• Organised, proactive and capable of managing your own workload and deadlines effectively when given clear direction
• Comfortable engaging with business stakeholders and can communicate findings and recommendations clearly, both in writing and in person
• Ability to embed credibly within a business team to operate as a trusted partner and change agent while maintaining transformation discipline and independence of perspective