Associate Director - Rating

Role Purpose

CBRE’s market-leading Rating team is enjoying tremendous growth, delivering exponential profits and creating opportunities for individuals to progress their careers.

We are now in a position to further accelerate the expansion of our Rating business in the Midlands & South. To succeed, we need to recruit an ambitious and talented individual into our dedicated Industrial & Logistics sector team.

Our Rating team provides rating advice to a broad range of clients including landlords, occupiers, investors, and developers. You will be tasked with supporting the business to build on existing market success. You will have the tenacity and ability to learn new skills, develop new business, and provide support to Directors on high profile and complex cases.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide expert advice to corporate real estate occupiers and investors within the sector on reducing their business rate liabilities including managing appeals, relief applications, completion notice advice, and empty rates mitigation strategies.
• Manage and grow your own client base and case load within the sector, developing excellent business relationships with new and existing clients.
• Use robust quantitative and qualitative analysis to assess client situations and devise recommended strategies and solutions.
• Prepare & present at Valuation Tribunal.
• Foster and maintain collaborative relationships across the wider CBRE network and develop relationships with key CBRE service lines to promote the team and leverage opportunities.
• Support Directors to innovate processes to drive efficiencies into working processes, and to stay abreast of legislative and market developments.
• Identify additional cross selling revenue by exploring client needs – candidate may have individual revenue growth targets.
• Understand the business development process and develop ideas and relationships that may result in new clients within Rating or another area of the business.
• Support proposals/pitches, and produce market-facing material e.g. Thought Leadership.
• Contribute to the development of more junior members of the team through role modelling behaviour and feedback, providing support as required.

Person Specification/Requirements

• Preferably MRICS qualified with at least 5 years PQE Rating experience.
• Proven experience in providing rating advice including negotiating appeals and advising on mitigation.
• Detailed knowledge of rating legislation and case law.
• Sector specific experience ideal but not essential.
• Experience of taking cases to Valuation Tribunal and Upper Tribunal ideal but not essential.
• Strong general surveying and inspection skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Commercially astute with an entrepreneurial attitude to business development.
• Proactive with the ability to work autonomously and co-ordinate tasks efficiently to ensure deadlines are met.
• Ability to problem-solve and manage multiple priorities.
• Confident and assertive where required.
• Team player who works effectively with colleagues and clients.
• Good IT skills (Microsoft – Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook); familiarity with Rating software including RiverLake and Analyse is beneficial.

Working at CBRE

When you join CBRE you will have the support and resources of a global firm where an entrepreneurial mind-set is encouraged. You'll realize your potential with challenging work, fast-paced assignments, an environment of constant learning and commitment to results. To enable your success, we provide the best tools, training and leaders in the industry.

Our collaborative culture is built on our RISE values and reflects the needs and perspectives of our clients and our people. Our work is guided by our North Star: Creating the real estate solutions of tomorrow, so businesses and people thrive. This informs everything we do—from diversity, equity, and inclusion to sustainability initiatives to workplace safety and wellbeing. At CBRE, we believe that the more perspectives we have, the more dimensions we see. We welcome people with different backgrounds and experiences across industries to apply for open positions even if you do not match every element of the required skills. To discover more about what it’s like to work at CBRE, visit Life at CBRE

About CBRE

CBRE Group, Inc. (NYSE: CBRE), a Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company headquartered in Dallas, is the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm (based on 2020 revenue). The company has more than 100,000 employees serving clients in more than 100 countries. CBRE serves a diverse range of clients with an integrated suite of services, including facilities, transaction and project management; property management; investment management; appraisal and valuation; property leasing; strategic consulting; property sales; mortgage services and development services.

In the UK, we service our clients from our offices in Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Liverpool, London, Manchester, Oxford and Southampton.

Equal Opportunities

We are an equal opportunities employer and do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, sexual orientation, marital or civil partner status, pregnancy or maternity, gender reassignment, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, disability or age.