Research Manager

About the Role

You're a strategic thinker with a passion for transforming data into powerful stories that influence decisions. You excel at uncovering market trends before they hit the mainstream and thrive on providing insights that give teams a competitive edge. With a blend of analytical rigor and deep market understanding, you're the go-to expert who equips brokers, clients, and leaders with intelligence they can trust.

You're driven by curiosity, energized by innovation, and motivated to position Colliers as the premier advisor for occupiers, investors, and owners.

• Lead, mentor, and manage the local research team, fostering a high-performance culture, developing junior talent, and ensuring alignment with national best practices.

• Responsible for the creation of quarterly and annual market reports, economic outlooks and thought leadership content that elevate Colliers' brand in the marketplace.

• Provide strategic, client-facing research support for broker pursuits and client deliverables, directly influencing business development outcomes.

• Oversee the accuracy and integrity of property databases, market statistics, and economic indicators, ensuring Colliers maintains its reputation for reliability and authority.

• Act as a trusted market advisor by interpreting complex data into clear insights that inform client decision-making and corporate real estate strategies.

• Strengthen Colliers' brand visibility by cultivating relationships with local media, trade associations, public agencies, and academic institutions.

• Partner with valuation, capital markets, and leasing professionals to support financial modeling, lease analysis, and transaction research.

• Collaborate with marketing, GIS and IT teams to enhance data visualizations tools, streamline workflows, and deliver innovative research solutions.

• Participate in local sales/leasing meetings and represent the local market in regional and national research calls, contributing insights, sharing best practices, and influencing research standards.

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, real estate, or related field.

• 5+ years of applied research or analytics experience in commercial real estate, with proven track record of project ownership and/or team leadership.

• Experience in a supervisory/leadership role is preferred.

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint).

• Strong organizational and time management skills with ability to prioritize shifting demands and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines.

• Expertise with CoStar, MSCI-RCA, Tableau/Power BI and CRM systems for client segmentation and business intelligence.

• Experience in GIS mapping or spatial analytics preferred.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with ability to distill complex data into actionable insights.

• Client-facing communication and storytelling expertise, with ability to influence decision-making.

Area/Location Specific:
St. Louis Park, MN.

Approximate Compensation Range for this Role: $106,384 to $120,000

This position is eligible for an annual bonus, based on company and individual performance.

Employees (and their families) are provided options for employer subsidized medical benefits including RX, dental, vision as well as employer paid basic life/AD&D insurance and short-term / long-term disability. Employees are able to enroll in our company's 401k plan, which includes an employer match. Employees will also receive 10 days of sick leave and a minimum of 15 days vacation annually.

Certain senior-level roles are eligible for unlimited time off. Employees will also enjoy 10 paid holidays plus two personal flex days throughout the calendar year. Twelve weeks (for birth parents) and 4 weeks (for non-birth parents, including adoptive/foster parents) for paid parental leave will also be available for use after successful completion of 90 days of employment. Individuals may be eligible for different or additional benefits under applicable state law.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Applications will be accepted on an ongoing basis.

Direct applicants only please, no agencies.

Colliers respects diversity and is an equal opportunity employer. No employee or applicant for employment will be discriminated against on the basis of any actual or perceived membership in any protected category including race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ancestry, citizenship status, age, sex or gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), gender identity or gender expression (including transgender status), sexual orientation, marital status, military service and veteran status, disability, protected medical condition as defined by applicable state or local law, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws and…