Job Description

Alliance Director

Job ID

230562

Posted

22-Jul-2025

Service line

GWS Segment

Role type

Full-time

Areas of Interest

Facilities Management

Location(s)

Basel - Basel-Stadt - Switzerland


CBRE Global Workplace Solutions provides integrated facility management services on all continents with more than 60,000 employees. In Switzerland, the GWS division provides technical, infrastructural and commercial facility management services for clients from various industries.

For our growing Facility Management organization at a client in the Life Sciences sector in Basel (BL) we are looking for an:

Alliance Director

About the role:

As a CBRE Alliance Director, you will assist with the oversight of the department responsible for developing and maintaining business relationships with client accounts of strategic significance.
This job is part of the Operations Management job function. They are responsible for coordinating staff functions and operations that support the organization's goals and strategies.

Your main tasks:Provide formal supervision to employees. Monitor the training and development of staff. Conduct performance evaluations and coaching. Oversee the recruiting and hiring of new employees. Coordinate and manage the team's daily activities. Establish work schedules, assign tasks, and crosstrain staff. Set and track staff and department deadlines. Mentor and coach as needed. Implement business strategies to achieve profitable relationships and identify new revenue opportunities. Build and maintain effective long-term client relationships and a high level of satisfaction. Formulate, negotiate, and execute contracts utilizing internal expert resources. Prepare and submit short and long-range plans and strategies to clients using available marketing programs to reach nominated targets. Direct new business efforts with current accounts. Source new business opportunities and engage the field accordingly. Conduct regular status and strategy meetings with the client's management to understand needs. Evaluate industry and business trends and review and identify performance across the strategic account. Review data for potential impact on new business and operations and respond with business changes. Achieve revenue targets by increasing spend per account. Apply a robust knowledge of multiple disciplines, the business, and key drivers which impact departmental and cross-functional performance. Lead by example and model behaviors that are consistent with CBRE RISE values. Persuade managers and other colleagues to take action while being guided by the organization's functional business plans. Negotiate with external partners, vendors, and customers of divergent interests to reach a common goal. Identify and solve multi-dimensional, complex, operational, and organizational problems leveraging the appropriate resources within or outside the department. Significantly improves and changes existing methods, processes, and standards within job discipline


Your profile:Bachelor's Degree preferred with 8-12 years of relevant experience. In lieu of a degree, a combination of experience and education will be considered. Experience in the areas of staffing, selection, training, development, coaching, mentoring, measuring, appraising, and rewarding performance and retention is preferred. Ability to lead the exchange of sensitive, complicated, and difficult information, convey performance expectations, and handle problems. Leadership skills to set, manage and achieve targets with a direct impact on multiple departments results within a function. In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Office products. Examples include Word, Excel, Outlook, etc. Expert organizational skills and an advanced inquisitive mindset.


What we can offer you:Open and innovative working environment with design options Regional and international development opportunities in a fast-growing company Wide range of internal and external training opportunities CBRE GWS as a global player in the service sector with well-known customers from a multinational environment Good framework conditions, such as at least five weeks of vacation, 40 hours a week, as well as an attractive pension fund solution.


Contact: Edwin Murray, Talent Acquisition Partner, +41 79 501 50 93

We look forward to receiving your application!