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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, Manchester, and Southampton.

The role

In this Programme, you will not only find yourself working on projects specific to your office and your clients, but also on those that span the UK. This gives great scope to gain a wide range of experiences, working on different projects and with a greater degree of autonomy early on in your career.

Purpose

We provide a unique and trusted town planning and development advisory service which is the catalyst for delivering positive change in the built environment. As strategic advisors, our dynamic, multi-disciplinary team see the opportunities that others do not, operating at each and every stage of the property life cycle.

Our national experts blend expert commercial and specialist knowledge with creativity. This is combined with commercial understanding and local knowledge of how places work and the contribution of sustainable development, enabling us to realise viable developments and create a sense of place.

Combining leading-edge town planners, economists, development surveyors and environmental specialists, we create value for our clients through the formulation and delivery of commercially focused planning strategies and by unlocking and accelerating schemes through the consenting stages of the development process, for viable and deliverable commercial, residential, retail, leisure and mixed use developments.

About you

The Planning pathway is only open to Cognate students.

Skills

  • A forward-thinking and enthusiastic individual with a passion for the built-environment
  • Self-motivated with a talent for verbal and written communication
  • A good team player
  • Strong work ethic
  • Attention to detail and accuracy 
  •  Strong personality with the ability to drive for results, make decisions and build consensus to achieve your targets taking the along the organization
  • Ability to take both a high-level view and drill down into details as needed and able to separate main topics from details

Education

We’ll help you gain the Assessment of Professional Competence (APC) through either the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) or Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors Planning & Development stream (RICS(P&D)) and encourage you to develop in areas that you have a particular interest.

For those wishing to train to be Chartered Town Planners and who have an appropriate RTPI accredited qualification (please check that your course/qualification is appropriately accredited  and that the qualification is classified as ‘Combined’ or that you have completed appropriate courses that qualify as both ‘Spatial’ and ‘Specialist’.