Development Manager

Role overview

Project delivery

• Lead projects from concept through closeout, managing schedules, budgets, quality, safety, and facilities turnover.
• Establish processes and systems aligned with company quality and design standards.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and provide consistent project feedback.
• Engage and negotiate with contractors, consultants, and vendors, including scopes, proposals, and change orders.
• Support pro formas, budgets, schedules, and comparative analyses at key workflow stages.
• Work with leasing managers on lease terms and landlord approvals; maintain local government and works-council relationships.
• Manage commissioning, warranties, defects, design errors and omissions, and turnover to facilities.
• Travel at least 50%.

Minimum qualifications

• Construction or project management experience delivering retail stores or workplaces internationally.
• Experience with large developments such as retail expansions, campuses, or hyperscale construction.
• Expertise planning, scheduling, budgeting, resourcing, and executing technical services for a large real estate portfolio.
• Ability to collaborate with partners to meet deadlines and project schedules.
• Ability to balance operational risk and investment while pursuing quality, design, and value.
• Leadership, communication, and supervisory skills, including handling employee customer-service issues professionally.
• Ability to develop cost estimates, cash flows, and schedules and analyze Total Cost of Ownership and Whole Life Cycle costs.
• Experience maintaining relationships with facilities teams, utilities, government agencies, design firms, and general contractors.

Preferred qualifications

• A bachelor's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, Industrial, Civil, Architectural, or Construction Management is preferred.
• A background in data center, commercial, or industrial construction, including building systems, tenant improvements, site work, and ground-up construction, is preferred.
• Success managing multiple projects, priorities, and people in a fast-paced environment is preferred.