About You: You are a high achiever looking to thrive in a fast-paced environment. You take pride in your own work but are comfortable collaborating with a team of highly motivated individuals. You can communicate clearly and concisely with teammates and clients, and you enjoy strong company culture and camaraderie. You can navigate multiple corporate functions, including global lines of service and corporate centers of excellence. You possess strong interpersonal skills and are willing to take on diverse tasks to achieve the team’s common goal. You value personal and professional growth and are ready to take the next step in advancing your career.
If this sounds like you, well, then you will love the culture at Avison Young!
About Us: Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.
Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.
We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes AY a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.
Of course we love it here, but outsiders think we’re pretty great too: Avison Young was awarded the prestigious America’s Best Midsize Employers for 2022, presented by Forbes and Statista, Inc. We’re proud to be regularly recognized for our team, services and culture and our team members enjoy comprehensive compensation and benefit programs. Through our customized work options, we give our people the flexibility to create a work environment that puts their overall well-being first. After all, we are powered by people.
Overview
Your adoption of proprietary Avison Young technologies will allow you to seamlessly navigate unprecedented real estate and real estate-adjacent market conditions by sharing insights leveraging the powerful intersection of data, analytics, visualization and automation. This approach will allow Avison Young’s clients to become more productive and our internal stakeholders to become more efficient, with both becoming more successful in their common ventures.
Responsibilities
Ensuring Avison Young has a clear, data-based, analytically informed view of current trends and future outlook for all relevant real estate markets and sectors within the region; this view will be informed by wider trends at national and global levels, be updated on a timely basis, and communicated clearly and effectively to key stakeholders
Develop subject matter expertise on relevant segments of the regional real estate market, acting as a key AY spokesperson for clients and the media on real estate and related trends
Authoring highly regular data-driven Insight utilizing digital tools in partnership with Innovation & Insight leadership alongside Marketing and Market leadership that can influence clients’ decision-making processes and promote the Avison Young brand
Engaging our occupier and investor clients to guide them through market conditions by leveraging our proprietary digital data analytics tools that help to shape and solve their real estate strategies more dynamically and seamlessly
Working with National and Global Insight & Innovation Leadership plus regional AY Management and stakeholders to develop a prioritized business plan for the Regional Team
Interaction with key stakeholders – particularly local AY Managing Directors, business line leaders and senior professionals – to understand local business needs, gather and incorporate feedback on product and service development, and maximize the Regional Team’s contribution to AY’s business across the region
Development of a strategic resource plan for the region, identifying current or future personnel or other resource needs and liaison with national Innovation & Insight leadership
Proactive identification of new AY clients and through that effort provide strategic guidance to Regional leadership on how best to approach and pursue those opportunities
Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent required
5+ years of commercial real estate or consulting experience is preferred but other relevant professional experience is certainly considered
Ability to present using digital mediums to large audiences
Ability to create strategic plans addressing business needs for a specific market
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
Ability to engage with clients and produce deliverables within deadlines in partnership with an interdisciplinary team
Ability to travel up to 20%
People management experience a plus
Master’s degree in real estate, finance, economics, business or related field would be a plus
Our Equal Opportunity Commitment
Avison Young practices as an equal opportunity employer in all services locations around the world. We are committed to building and maintaining a workforce diverse in experience, skills and knowledge with uniformity in service excellence, commitment and integrity.
The firm maintains a strict policy to ensure employment opportunities are equal and do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, age, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, citizenship, disability, marital and civil partnership/union status, protected veteran or military service status, or any other elements protected by law.
For those requiring assistance with disabilities, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
Avison Young is committed to employing the best talent with the most fair and equitable recruitment practices. Apply with us TODAY!
About Us:
Avison Young is a global commercial real estate brokerage and advisory firm, offering transaction, management, financial and consulting services. We’ve designed our corporate structure to best serve our clients by enhancing collaboration across our organization.
Real estate can have an enormous positive impact on people’s lives – and we’re in the business of making spaces and places work better for people. Our purpose is to create real economic, social and environmental value as a global real estate advisor, powered by people.
We care about each other and we have each other’s backs. This makes AY a great place to be a client, and a great place to work. We support the whole person and their complete wellness – economic, mental and physical – because what’s best for our business comes from our people bringing their whole selves to work.
