lululemon

Reporting to the Sr. Director of Construction, the Senior Manager, North America Construction, will be responsible for all aspects of store development within lululemon. You play a crucial role in ensuring our projects, are delivered on time and on budget.  This role will develop and manage the deliverables of the project management team from site selection to construction project close-out. This is a key leadership role that works collaboratively with our real estate, design and operations partners. The Senior Manager, North America Construction will also be responsible for estimating various types of projects (new stores, optimizations, renovations and relocactions) prior to Real Estate approval and managing all milestones throughout the project schedule. 

Other key responsibilities and duties include:

• Manage internal project management team of 5+ people to ensure all project deliverables are met. 
• Oversee portfolio of projects from site identification through the design and construction process, delivering to key milestones and metrics while staying within the approved financial plan
• Responsible for all process mapping and development of training and onboarding tools for the Project Manager team.  
• Lead the learning and development aspect of the team to ensure the team is ready to scale for the future growth of the business.   Including, but not limited to, team meetings, 1:1s, performance reviews and feedback as needed.
• Close collaboration with Sr. Director of Construction and other leaders within Store Development, as well as cross-functional partners, to ensure internal and external resources are allocated appropriately and processes are efficient.
• Personally manage 3-5 projects annually to stay close to construction documents and the requirements needed to execute projects successfully.  
• Preliminary approval of all project schedules and budgets prior to final leadership approval.
• With the design team, participate in bi-annual architect/engineer/GC/vendor review meetings to ensure drawings are up to date per current brand standards and building requirements.
• Work with internal partners for plan approvals, including value engineering efforts when projects are trending over the approved budget in varous phases of design prior to starting construction.  Review project scope, schedule and financial reporting to mitigate overall negative impact to the company.
• Responsible for estimating, as well as review of project management team’s estimates, for all new stores, optimizations, renovations and relocations throughout the US, Canada and Mexico to ensure successful coordination of efforts and completion of objectives to support company initiatives prior to monthly Real Estate meetings as well as various budget check-ins throughout the project timeline.
• Travel to job sites, as necessary, to ensure projects are on time, on budget and as per design.  Meet with City inspectors, landlord management, internal teams and outside vendors to ensure a successful store opening.
• Maintain impeccable records on shared drive of budget, vendor orders, contracts, schedules, etc.
• Maintaining strong relationships with cross-functional partners to consistently develop and evolve associated processes
• Oversee transactional vendor relations (scope development, bidding, PO’s, vendor deliverables, invoicing)
• Manage communications with Senior Leadership including program level status reporting 
• Proactively identify, prioritize, and drive resolution of issues and risks
• Producing and maintaining various project reports
• Create and manage a culture of personal development and continuous improvement
• Delivering additional projects, duties, and assignment as required and/or by request by the Director of Construction 

Competencies (Knowledge, Skills, Attributes, Traits) and Qualifications: 

Technical Expertise

• Bachelor’s Degree, or equivalents from a 4-year college,  8+ years project management experience within a retail construction environment or equivalent.
• Three or more years previous experience managing internal team members
• Demonstrated experience in creating/managing a portfolio of projects from identification through to project close-out
• Experience managing construction budgets, value engineering conversations and negotiating change orders
• Must be versatile and able to manage multiple projects in various stages at any one time in the life cycle of a project
• Practiced in store development processes, vendor management, client relations
• Proficient in MS Office, Excel, Project, Sharepoint

 General

• Demonstrate the ability to manage, motivate and develop a team
• Proven effective negotiator
• Highly motivated, creative, detail oriented, and dependable
• Open to learn and accessible to all levels of the organization
• Possess organizational, time management, and troubleshooting competence
• Excellent team player, and capability to work independently
• Superb communication skills – verbal and written
• Ability to multi-task and prioritize program needs with constantly changing priorities
• Travel may be required to markets and store sites pre-, during and post construction (up to 40% of your time)
• Proactive and solution oriented