Manager - Store Development Program

About the role

We’re a family company focused on serving people and communities. At Meijer, you’ll find career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth, and development. This role requires a creative, organized, and well-communicative leader with a general understanding of real estate acquisition, entitlement, development, AE, MEP, and construction processes.

You’ll supervise and hold overall responsibility for executing, monitoring, and completing entitlements, permitting, due diligence, design, and development of multiple new store projects, ensuring the Enterprise meets its annual new store development program goals. Through supervision of Project Development Managers and Design Project Managers, you’ll conduct project-level risk analysis, value analysis, and create solutions to remove internal and external impediments to project execution—keeping projects on schedule and on budget.

This role reports to the Director of Real Estate – New Store Development and involves engaging internal cross-functional teams as well as external consultants.

Responsibilities

• Manage all facets of the organization’s new store program development, including budget, schedule, procurement, quality, and risk.
• Supervise Project Development Managers in administering individual real estate projects from planning and evaluation through entitlement, development, and closeout.
• Oversee the end-to-end final design process for all store projects through a Design Manager and Design Project Managers, ensuring delivery of AE/MEP/Refrigeration designs and continuous prototype enhancement.
• Create, maintain, and disseminate project plans, project information, and project status reports to stakeholders.
• Drive effective partnership, communication, collaboration, and commitment across multiple internal and external teams with competing priorities.
• Anticipate areas of risk, provide critical issue management, make tradeoffs, and balance business needs versus technical constraints.
• Articulate vision, influence decisions, and empower teams to own continuous improvement.
• Create executive-style reporting updates and documents by synthesizing detailed information.
• Collaborate to identify, devise, and implement continuous improvements to processes, systems, policies/procedures, training, and guidance documents.
• Interface directly with stakeholders to define project requirements.
• Prepare scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimates and budgets, cash flow, work plan schedules and milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
• Lead change management with internal and external stakeholders.
• Lead, analyze, and make recommendations through procurement engagement efforts with local and national service provider partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Construction Management, Architecture, Engineering, or related discipline.
• 10+ years of relevant project management experience in real estate, design, and commercial construction projects.
• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to interact with executive-level external and internal clients.
• Ability to supervise, motivate, and manage a team toward achieving Enterprise objectives.
• High levels of customer service and the ability to serve multiple clients simultaneously while delivering on milestones.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within a team.
• Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the ability to identify and manage priorities.
• Detail-oriented with the ability to lead, manage, and adapt to industry changes.
• Proficiency in project management technology tools and a commitment to continuous skill development.

Benefits

• Meijer Rewards
• Weekly pay
• Scheduling flexibility
• Paid parental leave
• Paid education assistance
• Team member discount
• Development programs for advancement and career growth