Assistant General Manager/General Manager-Retail Consulting

COMPANY PROFILE

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBG), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Los Angeles, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (in terms of 2016 revenue).

The Company has 80,000+ employees (excluding affiliates), and serves real estate owners, investors and occupiers across 100+ countries worldwide.

CBRE offers strategic advice and execution for property sales and leasing; corporate services; property, facilities and project management; mortgage banking; appraisal and valuation; development services; investment management; and research and consulting.

In 1994, CBRE was the first international real estate services firm to set up an office in India. Since then, our operations have grown to include more than 7500 professionals across nine offices, with a presence in over 150 cities in India.

The Consulting Group (CG) of CBRE is a specialized advisory practice that undertakes assignments across a wide variety of real estate assets and works for a broad spectrum of private and public-sector clients. CG’s vast portfolio coverage includes:

Development Advisory

Retail Consulting

Advisory for Emerging Asset Classes (such as data centers, student housing, flex spaces, etc.)

Government Advisory

Master planning

Logistics Advisory

Industrial Advisory

Corporate Consulting (Workplace Strategy, Change Management, Occupancy Planning)

The Consulting division of CBRE is a specialized advisory practice that undertakes assignments across a wide variety of real estate asset classes and works for a broad spectrum of private and public-sector clients.

Retail advisory is a sub-vertical of the consulting division and the portfolio of services and duties for this role shall include:

Project Execution side

Acting as an anchor for managing multiple projects & complex assignments with allocated resources within pre-defined timelines & milestones

Undertaking typical project strategy assignments such as Retail Analytics, Catchment Analysis, Market & Financial Feasibility, Highest & Best Use Study, Techno Economic Viability Study, Product Mix Strategy & Business Plan Formulation exercises

Lead & Conceptualize demand estimation and financial modeling across projects (including scenario building) – ability to use multiple ratification approaches for the same

Undertaking specialized studies related to design and space planning such as formulation of tenant mix, brand mix and zoning strategy for retail developments (malls / high-streets / mixed-use support retail)

Should be able to review the floor plans prepared by the client appointed architect and provide inputs on market led aspects such as:

Retail planning – location of anchor categories, placement of food courts., etc., specific requirement of anchor categories

Tenant Zoning – location of categories across different floors, clustering and adjacencies between different categories to maximize footfalls

Circulation patterns – ingress/ egress, horizontal and vertical circulation, parking, etc.

Back of house services (market led and tenant requirement based)

Store specific inputs – size, visibility, frontage etc.

Should be able to assess the business impact of the recommendations on the mall design – impact on rentals, retailer interest, etc.

Assisting retailers in expanding their business in India by undertaking location strategy studies, expansion strategy, market entry strategy, competitor analysis, market potential estimation, etc.

Business Development side

Supporting the vertical lead in growing the business to achieve revenue targets

Proactively engage in business development activities for the retail consulting vertical

Coordinate & review end to end proposals & pitches for the retail segment in line with client requirements.

Travel to major cities to understand market dynamics, undertake business development activities as required.

Co-ordinate on critical assignments with both internal and other service lines within the company