Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) Local is a hard services-led, tailored facility management solution.

We self-perform hard services while partnering with best-in-class soft service providers to offer custom facility and project management solutions to our clients.

We focus on empowering our team with a high-level of downstream accountability, resulting in an agile and efficient service delivery.

In addition to our core facility and project management capabilities, our platform offers direct access to our Best-in-Class services, including ESG, Security Consulting, Workplace Strategy, and Workplace Experience.
About the Role: Lead, develop, and elevate a high-performing project management team.CBRE is seeking an experienced and strategic leader to serve as Head of Projects for our Local Global Workplace Solutions business unit in Seattle.

This is a leadership and business operations position focused on portfolio oversight, client development, team performance, and financial management.

It is not a day-to-day project manager role.

The Head of Projects oversees a high-volume portfolio of short-duration projects across multiple sectors.

Success in this role requires strong business unit leadership, a deep understanding of project delivery, and the ability to support both strategic and tactical needs in a fast-moving environment.

This includes providing guidance on scoping, estimating, subcontractor engagement, regulatory requirements, and field coordination when needed.

You will play a key role in driving growth, ensuring operational excellence, and strengthening client relationships while building a strong and reliable project delivery team.

What You’ll Do: Lead and mentor a team of project managers with a focus on delivery quality, operational consistency, and professional growth.

Oversee financial performance for the project portfolio, including forecasting, reporting, margin management, and backlog execution.

Build and maintain strong client relationships that support repeat business and account expansion.

Identify, develop, and pursue new work opportunities in both existing accounts and the open market.

Provide strategic oversight on risk, scope, pricing, and resourcing for proposals and active projects.

Support project managers with hands-on guidance for scoping, estimating, subcontractor alignment, permitting processes, and field readiness when necessary.

Maintain visibility with clients, vendors, and internal partners as a reliable advisor and problem solver.

Recruit, retain and develop talent for the present delivery and future growth.

Deliver contractual commitments on secured projects.

Ensure projects are delivered on all maintenance contracts.

Complete projects in line with local playbooks on time, on budget and to the satisfaction of all parties.

Identify, reduce and manage all risks (technical, statutory, health and safety, commercial or otherwise) associated with each and every project.

Plan and develop long term opportunities by creating a pipeline of opportunities.

Liaise with colleagues to determine and identify project opportunities.

Develop and manage all bids, tenders and proposals.

Generate project opportunities by building strong effective working relationships with customers and site teams to exceed the annual financial plan.

Pursue opportunities to generate projects through innovation and diverse technologies.

Lead the projects sales process through solutions development, participating in presentations and consultation meetings.

Identify and win projects through effective relationships.

Deliver supportive business communication through advice, review, leadership and direct contribution to management team meetings, briefings, consultation forums, correspondence, publicity, monthly and ad-hoc reporting and other applications as appropriate.

Promote and maintain the core values of CBRE.Contribute to the Business Unit strategy development.

Deliver broader strategy and new process delivery across the projects business, ensuring business governance compliance.

Manage the Business Unit Projects forecast.

People leadership, including addressing underperformance, complying with CBRE management policies and procedures.

Negotiate contractual obligations and disputes upstream and downstream.

Chair monthly and ad hoc project review meetings, covering all aspects of Health & Safety / Legislation and financial requirements.

Support the onboarding process for new Project team members.

Accountable directly to the Business Unit Leader/ Director and indirectly to the Divisional Project Director.

This is not a comprehensive list of job requirements, additional tasks may be included.