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Business Intelligence Manager

Job ID

246756

Posted

13-Nov-2025

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Data & Analytics, Digital & Technology/Information Technology

Location(s)

Dallas - Texas - United States of America, Richardson - Texas - United States of America

About the role

The Business Analytics Manager for the CBRE GWS Insights Team is a strategic leadership role responsible for driving business intelligence initiatives that support real estate data analysis across CBRE’s client portfolio. This position oversees a team of analysts and serves as both a project manager and technical lead, ensuring the delivery of high-impact analytics solutions that optimize operations across service lines including facilities management, project management, finance, portfolio administration, and cost forecasting.

The manager will lead efforts to automate data collection from operational systems, architect and maintain data warehouses and semantic layers, and develop advanced Tableau dashboards that transform raw data into actionable insights. In addition to technical leadership, this role requires strong people management skills, including coaching, performance development, and project oversight for direct reports.

Additionally, the CBRE GWS Insights Team helps our clients develop budgets, benchmark facility operating costs, and predict upcoming capital requirements. A manager leads projects to collect the requisite client real estate data, build and refine cost models using CBRE tools, and present a meaningful financial story in formal reports and briefings.

A critical component of this role is managing complex stakeholder relationships. The Business Analytics Manager must demonstrate exceptional communication and influence skills to align diverse stakeholder groups, facilitate strategic conversations, and translate business needs into scalable analytics solutions.

The ideal candidate possesses a broad skill set across five key categories: Tableau expertise, experience in data modeling, relational databases and semantic layers, advanced project management, strong client-facing communications, and knowledge of the corporate real estate outsourcing industry. Minimum of eight years of experience. This position requires a minimum of 2 days in Office with the remainder remote.

What you'll do

+ Lead and manage a team of business analysts, providing coaching, performance feedback, and professional development to ensure high-quality delivery and team growth.

+ Serve as both technical lead and project manager for complex business intelligence initiatives across corporate and government clients, ensuring alignment with strategic objectives.

+ Own stakeholder engagement strategy, facilitating complex conversations across diverse client groups to define project scope, manage expectations, and drive consensus.

+ Perform both technical lead and project manager responsibilities for business intelligence projects for a variety of corporate and government clients.

+ To avoid scope creep, the manager must maintain effective communication with the project's stakeholders and ensure the project's requirements are well documented.

+ Lead or participate in multiple projects by completing and updating project documentation; managing project scope; adjusting schedules when necessary; determining daily priorities; ensuring efficient and on-time delivery of project tasks and milestones; following proper escalation paths; and managing customer and supplier relationships

+ Create and maintain project schedules by developing project plans and specifications, estimating time and resources, monitoring milestone completion, tracking all phases of the project lifecycle, providing timely reporting of issues that impact project progress, coordinating actions and resolving conflicts

+ Create, maintain and optimize creative data visualizations and dashboards (primarily in Tableau) to derive actionable intelligence.

+ Provide subject matter expertise on data-related processes and analyses.

+ Design, manage, and enhance semantic data models usingKyvosto enable scalable, high-performance analytics and intuitive dashboard integration.

+ Elicit and clearly document business and data requirements to ensure inclusion in the final solution.

+ Present progress and results to clients (both in-person and virtually) and collects feedback for revisions.

+ Prepare formal presentations and/or written reports describing project methodology, scope, key assumptions, and results.

+ Collaborate with CBRE’s Digital and Technology team to implement automated technical solution for business intelligence projects.

+ Network and cultivate relationships with Subject matter experts within and outside the organization to bring expertise to the team when appropriate.

+ Understand and negotiate needs and expectations of multiple stakeholders

+ Opportunities to participate in broader team activities such as coordination of learning and development initiatives and employee engagement programs.

What you'll need

+ Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) from four-year college or university. Master’s degree or MBA preferred. Minimum 8+ years of related experience, including 2+ years of people management.

+ Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Strong organizational and analytical skills. Ability to provide efficient, timely, reliable and courteous service to customers. Ability to effectively present information.

+ Excellent data management, manipulation, and analysis skills. Ability to create integrated data models from disparate sources. Understanding of relational databases. Highly skilled in dashboard design and development. Advanced Tableau skills are required. Proficiency in database technologies such as Snowflake or Microsoft SQL Server is preferred.

+ Requires basic knowledge of financial and statistical terms and principles.

+ Ability to comprehend, analyze, and interpret complex data sets. Ability to solve problems involving several options in situations. Requires advanced analytical and quantitative skills.

+ Advanced skills in Microsoft Office Suite Products, particularly Excel. Comfortable working independently and collaboratively.

+ Exposure to ML/AI concepts preferred.

Why CBRE?

+ At CBRE, we believe we possess an encouraging environment where integrity, service, and excellence craft our approach to every opportunity. We are guided by the needs of the cities we inhabit, the communities we build and the world we live in.

+ CBRE named a Fortune’s Most Admired Real Estate Company Fourteen years in a row

+ CBRE agrees to acquire J&J Worldwide Services, a leading provider of engineering services, base support operations and facilities maintenance for the U.S. federal government.

+ Named a World’s Most Ethical Company by Ethisphere for 11th consecutive year.

+ Ranked #3 on Barron’s Most Sustainable Company list

**Equal Employment Opportunity:** CBRE has a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law.

**Candidate Accommodations:** CBRE values the differences of all current and prospective employees and recognizes how every employee contributes to our company’s success. CBRE provides reasonable accommodations in job application procedures for individuals with disabilities. If you require assistance due to a disability in the application or recruitment process, please submit a request via email at [email protected] or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).

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