Manager, Commercial Real Estate Operations & Execution

About the role

This role will serve as a central operator within the Commercial Real Estate Services platform, directly supporting division leadership in driving execution, improving operating discipline, and scaling the business.

Responsibilities

• Act as the operational lead for the division, ensuring priorities are clearly defined, tracked, and executed
• Drive accountability across active client engagements, including lease dispositions, restructuring, site selection, and portfolio optimization initiatives
• Partner with transaction managers and deal teams to ensure timelines, deliverables, and landlord and tenant interactions are progressing efficiently
• Build and maintain real-time visibility into pipeline, active deals, and key milestones across the portfolio
• Support and help institutionalize the business development process, including pipeline management, opportunity tracking, proposal development, and internal alignment
• Implement operating rhythms across the division, including pipeline reviews, deal calls, reporting cadence, and follow-through mechanisms
• Enforce quality control across all client deliverables, ensuring consistency in underwriting, presentations, and execution standards
• Identify bottlenecks across transactions, lease negotiations, and internal workflows, and proactively drive solutions
• Develop and refine scalable processes that improve speed, transparency, and execution across both healthy and distressed assignments
• Leverage AI and SaaS tools to improve reporting, pipeline visibility, underwriting support, and workflow automation
• Owning special projects tied to growth, operational improvement, and platform development

Requirements

The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail oriented, and operationally minded, with the ability to anticipate needs, remove friction, and drive outcomes. They must be comfortable operating in a high-performance environment where priorities shift quickly and expectations around execution are high.

Qualifications

• 3 to 7 years of experience in business operations, consulting, transaction management, commercial real estate advisory, or similar role
• Strong understanding of commercial real estate workflows, ideally within retail, including transactions, lease negotiations, or portfolio management
• Proven ability to manage multiple workstreams in a deadline-driven, deal-oriented environment
• Hightly organized with strong attention to detail and a commitment to execution quality
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to identify issues and drive resolution quickly
• Effective communicator with the ability to work across senior leadership, deal teams, and external stakeholders
• Comfortable operating with a high degree of ownership, accountability, and autonomy
• Experience building or managing pipelines, tracking deals, and supporting business development efforts
• Highly proficient or genuinely interested in AI tools, automation, and SaaS platforms that improve productivity and decision making

Skills

A strong interest in leveraging AI, data, and technology to improve workflows, visibility, and decision making is critical.

Benefits

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), please contact the Human Resources department if you have a disability and need reasonable accommodation with any part the application process. Requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Gordon Brothers is an Equal Opportunity Employer.