Provide portfolio oversight for minor remodel, refresh, rollout, maintenance, and closure programs, ensuring alignment with enterprise growth strategies, budgets, and timelines.
Balance a high-volume, continuously evolving portfolio of concurrent projects, proactively managing interdependencies, prioritization, and shared resource constraints.
Manage approved capital budgets at both program and project levels, including portfolio-level planning and forecasting.
Forecast program-level financial risks, integrate cost–schedule planning, and ensure adherence to corporate financial objectives.
Select, onboard, and oversee external vendors (general contractors, program managers, construction PMs) across multiple initiatives.
Ensure compliance with contractual obligations, performance standards, safety requirements, and jurisdictional requirements across the portfolio.
Own delivery of projects through closeout, ensuring consistent cost, quality, and schedule performance across programs.
Lead competitive bid/award processes; respond to bid questions and clarifications.
Serve as the primary enterprise liaison between Construction, Finance, Real Estate Law, Store Operations, and Field teams.
Partner with Store Operations to mitigate construction impacts across multiple locations simultaneously; develop phasing strategies to support operational continuity during improvements.
Provide clear, timely updates to executive and senior stakeholders, tailoring communication to diverse audiences.
Develop and maintain integrated program
and project-level schedules; drive to milestones and proactively escalate portfolio risks.
Align program execution with corporate priorities, seasonal retail cycles, and operational readiness.
Coordinate site control, document management, and compliance across multiple concurrent projects.
Requirements
8–12+ years of construction experience with program/portfolio-level oversight in high-volume, multi-site environments
Strong expertise in capital planning, budgeting, forecasting, and financial risk management
Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritize effectively, and maintain attention to detail
Advanced analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills with ability to assess complex situations and drive solutions
Excellent leadership, influencing, and relationship-building skills, with ability to operate in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment