Senior Program Manager, Worldwide Grocery Real Estate

Key job responsibilities

• Manage the critical path to develop new business lines. Develop a critical path timeline, identify key stakeholders, manage working groups, and hold the team accountable to delivering key inputs on time.
• Manage workflows to holistically define a new store concept including: store size and footprint, real estate site criteria, key differentiators and value proposition, economic model including topline sales forecasting and P&L inputs, segment share opportunity size, among others.
• Develop geographic expansion plans for new store concepts as well as existing business lines, defining store openings per year across a 3 and 10 year horizon.
• Cook up store growth plans with Logistics to ensure supply chain solutions are in place to support stores.
• Own program status reporting as well as site-specific pipeline reporting to senior leadership and stakeholder teams, ensuring critical milestones are understood and actioned upon.
• Author documents that outline strategic as well as tactical plans that will be presented to senior leadership.
• Drive key real estate instruments for new concept development such as LOI and lease templates, proforma models, sales forecasting methodologies, and pipeline management systems.
• Identify areas of risk to project timelines, and escalate to program leadership in a timely manner.
• Drive new store expansion process improvements; enable streamlining to achieve operational excellence, benchmarking, and development and tracking of key performance metrics.

Basic Qualifications

• 5+ years of program or project management experience
• Experience using data and metrics to determine and drive improvements
• Experience owning program strategy, end to end delivery, and communicating results to senior leadership

Preferred Qualifications

• 2+ years of driving process improvements experience
• Master's degree, or MBA in business, operations, human resources, adult education, organizational development, instructional design or related field