Job Opportunities in United States

Position

• Provide strategic and tactical leadership to ensure optimal project and brand delivery.
• Create a culture that insures the highest standard of performance and quality from construction, sourcing, vendors and peers.
• Continuously evaluate performance of internal and external resources; propose and implement changes as required to ensure an optimally functioning organization and a high-performance vendor and consultant resource pool.
• Negotiate and coordinate design and technical requirements, strategic scheduling and upfront planning, budgeting and hiring.
• Develop and foster a design and business acumen accounting for regional context, clientele, and practices.
• Oversee and coordinate regional Store Planning teams to ensure timely completion of punch lists before store opening. Set systems in place to close out projects within 1 month of opening.
• Liaise with regional leads to strategically plan, budget, prioritize, and assess new locations and renovations. Help determine what is right for the business.
• In collaboration with Divisional Finance and Legal leadership:
  • Establish competitive bidding, contract administration and project related legal and financial controls; monitor to ensure compliance by all regions. Continually evaluate and propose modifications to ensure optimal performance.
  • Establish qualification process and standards for project related: consultants, vendors, and construction service providers; monitor to ensure compliance of quality, budget and schedule. Continually evaluate and propose modifications to ensure optimal performance.
• Regularly visit completed projects with members of team, store design and procurement to perform post-opening project audits. Identify areas of needed improvement and institute changes to implement improvements in project development, project delivery, materials and assemblies.
• Support Store Design with their on-going research and development programs. In collaboration with Store Design and Procurement, identify and support the prototyping of project components.
• Evaluate and report on performance of regional teams; propose changes as required.
• Identify regional efficiencies, resources and practices for sourcing across regional projects.
• Work in collaboration with Global Procurement to propose and implement programs to identify efficiencies.
• Review with real estate department lease requirements for all new locations.
• Review with the project managers architectural drawings, shop drawings and renderings.
Ability to provide value engineering directions.

• 10 + years’ experience with Architecture and/or Construction degree and background
• Strong interpersonal, communication, project management and people management skills
• Demonstrated self-starter with ability to organize teams around competing priorities
• Experience effectively working with cross-functional teams and fostering collaborative thinking
Client focused with ability to create alignment