Real Estate Development Director

Circle K • Tempe, AZ

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The North America Real Estate Development team is working hard to accelerate the company’s strategy by finding new sites, opening new stores, relocating strong ones, rebuilding older ones, optimizing our existing network across North America. We do this all while living by our 4 key values of #OneTeam, #DoTheRightThing, #PlayToWin, and #TakeOwnership. As a key leader of the Global Real Estate Development team, you will be instrumental in supporting these goals through managing your team of Development Managers. You will also be responsible for communicating, coordinating, and building support with our regional or Business Unit (“BU”) operations teams, marketing teams, fuels teams, our construction team, and related internal and external stakeholders.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines, and continually prioritize and re-prioritize tasks.
• Strong analytical skills, a strategic mind, and strong attention to detail.
• Comfortable speaking and communicating to the team, third parties, and senior leadership.
• 5+ years relevant work experience with Real Estate, Retail Site Selection, Construction, Project Entitlement, Strategy, Finance, Environmental Compliance, Data Analytics, Economic Evaluation, M&A, Engineering and Design and Procurement.
• Advanced Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint proficiency, and ability to become proficient with additional software and applications.
• Prior experience leading a team.
• Travel up to 50% of the time.

Nice To Haves

• Extensive experience working directly in Operations is very highly preferred. This includes but is not limited to P&L management.
• Financial education/background desired; knowledge of general budget planning/procedures preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop team members to their full potential.
• Oversee new site identification, investigation, analysis, production, and store openings.
• Hold stakeholders accountable to deadlines.
• Ensure alignment between the team, Operations, and other key stakeholders through strong relationship building.
• Manage and ensure performance of third-party project managers, civil engineers, architects, attorneys, expeditors, and other related development personnel throughout the entitlement and permitting process.
• Create, manage, and adhere to site-specific budgets, procedures, approvals, and payment processes.
• Lead a team, thinking strategically and executing tactically with a sense of urgency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager