Manager - Store Development Program

As a family company, we serve people and communities. When you work at Meijer, you’re provided with career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth and development. Consider joining our family – take care of your career and your community!   Meijer Rewards Weekly pay Scheduling flexibility Paid parental leave   Paid education assistance Team member discount Development programs for advancement and career growth   Please review the job profile below and apply today! The Real Estate Program Manager – Store Development role requires a creative, organized, and well communicative leader who displays a general understanding of the real estate acquisition, entitlement, development, AE, MEP and construction processes. This role supervises and holds overall responsibility in the execution, monitoring, and completion of entitlements, permitting, due diligence, design and development of multiple new store projects, facilitating the Enterprise’s annual new store development program goals. This role, through supervision of Project Development Managers and Design Project Managers, will complete project-level risk analysis, value analysis and create solutions to relieve any internal and/or external impediments to project execution on schedule and on budget. This role will be responsible for the engagement of internal cross-functional teams, as well as related external consultants in execution of the foregoing responsibilities and will report to the Director of Real Estate – New Store Development.​   What You'll be Doing:   Manage all   facets   of the organization’s new store program   development   (budget, schedule, procurement, quality & risk) and supervise Project Development Manager’s administration of individual real estate projects including planning, evaluation, 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.   Administrate the creation, maintenance and   dissemination   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 risks, provide critical issue management,   anticipate , and make tradeoffs, and balance the business needs versus technical constraints.   Articulate vision and influence decisions, empowering teams to be owners of continuous improvement.      Create Executive style reporting updates/documents by   managing from   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. Prepares scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimate & budget, cash flow, work plan schedule & milestones, quality control, and risk identification.    Lead change management with internal and external stakeholders.   Lead, analyze and make   recommendation   through procurement engagement efforts with local and national service provider partners.    This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or   required .      What You Bring with You (Qualifications):   Bachelor's Degree in Construction Management , Architecture,   Engineering   or related discipline.    10+ years relevant project management experience in real estate ,   design   and commercial construction projects.    Strong interpersonal skills with   an   ability to interact with executive level external and internal clients.    Ability to supervise,   motivate