Senior Construction Project Manager

About the role

Sally Beauty Holdings, Inc. is the leader in professional hair color, selling and distributing beauty supplies across 11 countries through Sally Beauty and Beauty Systems Group businesses. This hybrid position, working from the Legacy Support Center in Plano, Texas, seeks a Senior Construction Project Manager to develop and manage construction projects from inception to completion.

Responsibilities

• Direct store project development from inception through completion for all construction new/relocation/remodel capital projects.
• Direct internal and external construction project management team, ensuring processes are consistent and maintaining the highest level of quality and cost controls.
• Partner with Real Estate team, managing Real Estate Committee inputs to budget and scope, and managing and ensuring execution of store upgrades driven by tenant improvement allowance funding.
• Organize diligence requirements regarding municipalities as well as contractors, suppliers, and internal stakeholders, ensuring overall scope of work, timelines, and flow of communication match plan approved requirements.
• Partner with brand operations and merchandise presentation teams, aligning construction schedule with development of POG presentation.
• Consistently update Smartsheet project management system, ensuring all PMs provide required physical plant and financial updates.
• Evaluate processes, challenge status quo, drive to shorten construction timelines, reduce costs, and maintain high quality control.
• Develop and publish financial reports ensuring each project meets schedule, quality of construction, and budget requirements.
• Develop critical path schedule of events, aligning scope, budget, and schedule with Real Estate site approval criteria, ensuring projects are delivered on time and on budget while maintaining the highest quality of materials and workmanship.
• Define timely and relevant merchandising strategy by leveraging product performance reporting, industry expertise, and trend awareness, coupled with insights and recommendations from Manager/Director.
• Manage all third-party planning and construction resources, capable of supplying manpower and technical experience to build Sally Beauty and CosmoProf stores.
• Manage the bidding process with qualified contractors, ensuring cost effectiveness and qualified subcontractor resources.
• Develop and manage construction schedules, identifying trades and scheduled overlaps, and critical inspection date schedules, aligning schedule with city inspectors to ensure completion on assigned inspection dates.
• Create working construction documents (CDs), complete applications for building and other permits required by municipalities, research requirements unique to specific cities, ensuring necessary documentation is available to start projects on time and receive Certificate of Occupancy without delay.
• Develop expectations and benchmark timelines for project development that align with overall schedule approved by Real Estate, maintain consistent communication with internal stakeholders throughout projects, ensure store layouts support business requirements, establish brand standards and lineal requirements, incorporate POG standards, develop construction and equipment budgets, contract with suppliers, ensure on-time delivery, conduct thorough reviews of completed projects, identify opportunities for improvement, and revise standards based on learnings, consistently driving improvement.

Requirements

• 5 - 7 years' experience in a commercial (retail) construction corporate environment as a field PM responsible for overall project construction.
• 3 - 5 years' experience in leadership position, managing field construction PMs.
• Experience in managing multiple projects simultaneously.
• Experience in budget and schedule development, identifying critical timelines and thresholds incorporated into major commercial construction projects.
• Experience managing field as well as internal office resources and subordinates, developing roles and responsibilities, and monitoring progress and expectations.
• Excellent communication skills, able to partner and align with both internal and external stakeholders.
• CAD certifications preferred.

Competencies & Attributes

• Solid organizational and project management skills (Professional PM certification preferred).
• Experience in operating Smartsheet project management software.
• Able to multitask, maintain multiple projects simultaneously.
• Excellent communication skills, able to effectively explain schedules and project scope and expectations.
• Experienced in working with municipalities in soliciting for build permits and field inspection scheduling.

Working Conditions & Physical Requirements

• The work may require some physical exertion such as long periods of standing, walking, recurring bending, crouching, stretching, reaching, or similar activities, and recurring lifting of moderately heavy items such as record boxes.
• The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, libraries, and residences or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals, etc.
• The work area is adequately lighted, heated, and ventilated.

Benefits

We offer a competitive salary and an outstanding benefits package that includes medical, dental, vision, life insurance, paid vacation and sick days, paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a 401(k) with company match. Associates of SBH may also take advantage of our in-house salon with complementary services and a varied selection of food options at our corporate campus. Additionally, associates enjoy a great merchandise discount at both a Sally Beauty and CosmoProf Professional onsite store on our corporate campus!