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About the Role

This leadership role will serve as the Program Lead for a major global banking client's Global Net Zero Real Estate Program, overseeing the delivery, governance, and performance management of a portfolio of real estate initiatives supporting the client's sustainability and Net Zero objectives. The Associate Director will be responsible for overseeing a team, collectively managing a portfolio of interconnected projects and programs across NAM, LATAM, EMEA, and APAC, ensuring effective governance, stakeholder alignment, reporting, and successful delivery of client objectives.

Responsibilities

Serve as Program Lead for the client's Global Net Zero Real Estate Program, providing leadership across a portfolio of interconnected initiatives.
Lead a consulting team responsible for program delivery, governance, and performance management, ensuring alignment with client objectives, budgets, schedules, and success criteria.
Oversee Program Managers and data management resources to monitor program performance, and drive resolution of delivery challenges.
Support portfolio planning, investment prioritization, and capital allocation activities, including incorporation of program-level carbon accounting methodologies where applicable.
Maintain program governance frameworks, decision-making structures, stakeholder engagement processes, and performance management practices.
Oversee program controls including risk, change, issue, dependency, and action management across multiple workstreams.
Deliver executive-level reporting and insights on program performance, key milestones, risks, decisions, and recommended actions.
Ensure consistent application of delivery methodologies, tools, reporting standards, and best practices across the program.
Facilitate governance meetings, steering committees, and executive reviews to support informed decision-making and accountability.
Monitor program budgets, forecasts, and overall financial performance in partnership with client stakeholders.
Leverage data, analytics, and reporting tools to support decision-making, performance measurement, and portfolio planning activities.
Ensure alignment between approved funding, delivery plans, business objectives, and program performance targets.
Lead the implementation and ongoing management of a portfolio of Net Zero and sustainability-focused real estate initiatives.
Coordinate delivery activities across project teams and subject matter experts to achieve established program objectives.
Track and communicate progress against key milestones, deliverables, performance indicators, and program benefits.
Ensure sustainability initiatives are effectively integrated into broader real estate, capital project, and portfolio management activities.
Lead, mentor, and develop a team of program management professionals.
Provide direction, coaching, and support to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across the program.
Foster a collaborative, accountable, and client-focused team environment.
Support workforce planning, capability development, and continuous improvement initiatives within the broader Real Estate Program Management practice.
Support business development activities internally, identify opportunities to expand services within existing client relationships.
Contribute to the continued growth and development of the Real Estate Program Management practice.
SOX control responsibilities may be part of this role, which are to be adhered to where applicable.

Requirements

Minimum 10 years of experience delivering complex real estate programs, capital project portfolios, or enterprise program management initiatives.
Strong experience in program governance, portfolio management, program controls, reporting, and stakeholder management.
Experience leading multidisciplinary teams across real estate, construction, facilities management, workplace, finance, and sustainability functions.
Proven ability to manage executive stakeholder relationships and facilitate decision-making within complex organizations.
Experience supporting financial services or banking sector clients is strongly preferred.
Familiarity with sustainability, Net Zero, ESG, decarbonization, energy management, or related real estate initiatives is desirable.
Experience managing large-scale programs within highly regulated environments is preferred.
Understanding and previous experience of Data Management and Visualization is preferred.

Skills

Real Estate Program Management
Portfolio Management
Program Governance
Program Controls
Risk & Change Management
Capital Planning & Investment Prioritization
Executive Reporting & Communications
Stakeholder Management
Financial Performance Oversight
Delivery Management
Cross-Functional Team Leadership
Operational Excellence
Data Analytics & Performance Reporting
Financial Services Real Estate
Net Zero & Sustainability Program Delivery
Client Relationship Management
Net Zero targets
Decarbonization strategy
GHG accounting
Energy efficiency measures
Sustainability initiatives within the built environment

Location

New York

Work Type

On site requirements might change based on client needs

Experience Level

Associate Director
10 years of experience

Education Level

Bachelor's degree in Construction Management, Engineering, Architecture, Real Estate, Project Management, Business Administration, Finance, or a related discipline.
Professional certifications such as PMP, PgMP, CCM, RICS, LEED, or equivalent are advantageous.

Salary/Compensations

USD 160000 - USD 175000 - yearly

Benefits

A great place to work, where each person has the opportunity and voice to affect change.
Opportunity to succeed both in work and life.
Healthy, productive and flexible working environment that respects work-life balance.

About the Company

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.
Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives.
Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programs as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.
Our capabilities include program, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.
We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest.
Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier program, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Equal Opportunity

Turner & Townsend is an equal opportunity employer.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and actively encourage applications from all sectors of the community.