Senior Manager, Construction – Minor Projects & Programs

Role Overview

• 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.
• Manage change orders, charge-back processes, risk mitigation, and program-level contingency planning.
• 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

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Retirement plans
• Paid time off
• Flexible work arrangements
• Professional development