Our Story:
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 Avison Young 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 has been recognized as one of Canada's Best Managed Companies for the 15th year in a row, with a Platinum Club designation!
Overview:
The Global IT Business Partner is a senior leadership role responsible for shaping and executing the AI, data, and technology strategy across various business groups within the Commercial Real Estate (CRE) service lines. Acting as a strategic advisor to business and executive leadership, this role ensures that technology and artificial intelligence are embedded into core brokerage and advisory activities across the organization.
The role leads the identification, design, and scaling of solutions that enhance productivity, deal execution, market intelligence, and client outcomes, while ensuring alignment with enterprise technology standards, data governance, and responsible AI practices. This role will part an integral part of the Global IT team with a focus on North America.
Success in this role requires strong technical fluency, commercial acumen, and change leadership, with a clear focus on delivering measurable business value.
Responsibilities:
Strategic Leadership & Business Partnership
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Serve as a trusted advisor to CRE business leaders and executive stakeholders.
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Define and drive the assigned business groups AI and technology vision aligned with firm‑wide digital, data, and growth strategies.
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Identify opportunities where AI, analytics, and automation can materially improve revenue growth, operational efficiency, insight quality, and client experience.
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Deliver strategic priorities across multi‑year roadmaps with clear success metrics.
AI, Advanced Analytics & Generative AI Strategy
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Define and oversee the portfolio of AI and analytics initiatives, including:
- Predictive pipeline and revenue forecasting
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Client insights and next‑best‑action intelligence
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Market, pricing, and comparative analytics
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Generative AI for research synthesis, presentations, and client-facing content (with governance)
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Partner with IT, Data Science, and vendors to ensure solutions are secure, production‑ready, and scalable.
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Establish KPIs for AI initiatives (adoption, accuracy, efficiency gains, revenue impact).
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Champion responsible AI, ensuring transparency, privacy, bias mitigation, and regulatory compliance
Product, Delivery & Vendor Leadership
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Operate with a product leadership mindset, owning intake, prioritization, delivery, and value realization of AI and technology initiatives.
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Lead pilots, proofs of concept, and scaled rollouts using agile delivery principles.
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Oversee vendor selection, technical evaluation, commercial negotiations, and ongoing performance management.
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Ensure initiatives move from experimentation to sustained adoption and measurable outcomes
Innovation, Enablement & Change Leadership
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Promote AI literacy across CRE teams through training, playbooks, and best‑practice sharing.
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Partner with business leaders to develop and test new use cases, scaling successful pilots.
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Lead internal communities and innovation forums to create and socialize ideas
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Drive organizational change by aligning workflows, incentives, and tools to technology‑enabled ways of working.
Governance, Risk & Cross‑Functional Collaboration
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Establish and maintain relevant technological governance frameworks, including ethical use, model oversight, and regulatory compliance.
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Collaborate closely with IT, Legal, Risk, Compliance, and Cybersecurity teams to manage technology risk.
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Ensure initiatives meet enterprise standards while remaining responsive to business needs.
Qualifications:
- 10+ years of experience in technology, data, analytics, AI, or digital transformation roles.
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Experience supporting commercial real estate, financial services, or professional services organizations.
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Proven ability to partner with senior business leaders and influence decision‑making.
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Strong technical fluency in:
- AI/ML and generative AI concepts
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Data platforms, analytics, and automation
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CRM and end‑to‑end business workflow systems
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Track record of delivering technology initiatives with clear, measurable business impact.
Preferred
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Experience applying AI or advanced analytics to CRE use cases (leasing, investment, valuation, research, operations).
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Familiarity with cloud platforms, modern data stacks, APIs, and BI tools.
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Exposure to MLOps, data governance, and responsible AI frameworks.
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Background in product management, management consulting, or enterprise technology leadership
Key Skills & Attributes
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Strategic, outcome‑oriented leader with strong commercial instincts
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Able to influence across a matrixed organization
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Comfortable operating in ambiguity and balancing speed with risk
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Clear communicator who can bridge business, executive, and technical teams
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Curious, pragmatic, and continuously learning
Workplace Type: On-Site
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.
Avison Young welcomes and encourages applications from people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates during the recruitment process. For those requiring assistance, information relating to the need for accommodation and accommodation measures will be addressed confidentially.
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