Manager, Real Estate Strategy & Execution

Gordon Brothers

About The Position

This role will serve as a central operator within the Real Estate Services platform, directly supporting division leadership in driving execution, improving operating discipline, and scaling the business. This role is focused on ownership and execution — ensuring that client engagements, transactions, and business development efforts move with speed, consistency, and accountability. This individual will sit at the intersection of transactions, lease administration, advisory, and business development, helping connect workflows across the platform and bring structure to a fast-moving, deal-driven environment. The role requires strong business judgment, a bias toward action, and the ability to translate strategy into execution across multiple concurrent workstreams. 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. A strong interest in leveraging AI, data, and technology to improve workflows, visibility, and decision making is critical.

Requirements

3 to 7 years of experience in business operations, consulting, transaction management, real estate advisory, or similar role
Strong understanding of 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
Highly 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

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
Support cross-functional coordination with capital, inventory, and other Gordon Brothers teams to ensure a fully integrated platform approach
Leverage AI and SaaS tools to improve reporting, pipeline visibility, underwriting support, and workflow automation
Act as a force multiplier for leadership by owning special projects tied to growth, operational improvement, and platform development