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Senior Transaction Manager

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Manages commercial real estate purchase, sale, lease, renewal, sublease, and termination transactions. Coordinates clients, brokers, landlords, internal business units, and service providers; oversees transaction milestones, documentation, financial analyses, negotiations, reporting, commissions, and project closeout. Supports corporate real estate portfolio strategy and serves as a primary liaison for transaction-related inquiries and administrative matters.
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Newmark Group, Inc. (Nasdaq: NMRK), together with its subsidiaries (“Newmark”), is a world leader in commercial real estate, seamlessly powering every phase of the property life cycle. Newmark’s comprehensive suite of services and products is uniquely tailored to each client, from owners to occupiers, investors to founders, and startups to blue-chip companies. Combining the platform’s global reach with market intelligence in both established and emerging property markets, Newmark provides superior service to clients across the industry spectrum. For the twelve months ended June 30, 2026, Newmark generated revenues of more than $3.6 billion. As of June 30, 2026, Newmark and its business partners together operated from over 195 offices with more than 10,000 professionals across four continents. To learn more, visit nmrk.com or follow @newmark. 


Job Summary

The Senior Transaction Manager services current and new accounts by coordinating and monitoring various transaction activities and working with internal departments to manage purchase, sales and lease transactions. This position also serves as the in-house point-of-contact for clients, brokers, and others to collect or to provide information on all account transactions.

Responsibilities
  • Coordinate with Account Manager to align transactions with the client’s real estate objectives.
  • Collaborate with assigned business units/regions to understand and support operational requirements and expansion or contraction of the business.
  • Implement the transaction process to complete seamless transactions on behalf of the client and in accordance with client’s processes and procedures.
  • Source and manage third party brokers/service providers where required.
  • Act as the liaison between the landlord, local broker, Account Manager and Business Unit/Regional Real Estate Director.
  • Assist the Account Manager in the execution of Corporate Real Estate (CRE) portfolio strategy through lease renewals, new leases, sub-leases, lease terminations and land & building purchase and sales.
  • Prepare, review, analyze, and interpret financial analysis templates including book and cash flow projections, NPV (net present value), and/or IRR (internal rate of return) to determine the financial impact and economic value of multiple transaction scenarios.
  • Coordinate and execute all steps surrounding transactions including the completion of project initiation sheets, market surveys, client tours, RFPs, counterproposals, LOI, broker's opinions of value and test fits to lease execution and project closeout.
  • Maintain all transaction and forms files. Prepare reports and makes presentations to relevant parties.
  • Maintain a comprehensive transaction tracker and ensure timely execution of key transaction milestones and critical dates.
  • Negotiate leases and lease amendments. Monitor lease expirations. Negotiate lease renewals within prescribed timeline.
  • Serve as liaison with clients relative to administrative matters, including obtaining executed lease copies, scheduling meetings, and being available to respond to inquiries or receive new assignment requests.
  • Review commission calculations with brokers, prepare deal sheets summarizing terms of transaction, and track commission payments and annual commission income reports.
  • Prepare project close-out files for all completed transactions, including all transaction documents, list of project contacts, lease abstract, executed lease/agreement, and activity log.
  • Track project travel expenses.
  • May perform other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
  • Bachelor’s degree in business or real estate.
  • Real estate sales associate license required.
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills.
  • Strong knowledge of Microsoft Office including proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.
  • High degree of professional customer service to both internal and external parties.

Working Conditions: Normal working conditions with the absence of disagreeable elements

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by employees, and are not to be construed as an exhaustive list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified.

Newmark is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

Newmark Chicago, Illinois, USA Office

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