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This position analyzes, selects, negotiates, administrates, and coordinates Meijer’s new store site acquisition and entitlement activities for various retail formats in accordance with defined growth strategy.
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What You'll Be Doing:
- Travel to required market areas to strategize overall market, find, evaluate, and investigate multi-store site locations for various formats (availability, competitive landscape, economic landscape, property values, access, zoning, development obstacles, timing, etc.)
- Analyzes data from analytics tools. Review and align with Sr. Real Estate Manager for purposes of moving site proposals forward
- Establish and maintain relationships within defined markets
- Researches and evaluates pertinent data related to market areas and specific sites (population, incomes, growth trends, traffic patterns, competition, and sales potential).
- Negotiates with property owners, brokers, developers and attorneys to control and acquire new store sites.
- Collaborates with partners in Design, Construction, Legal, Operations, Analytics and Real Estate
- Manage meetings with development team and drive acquisitions to closing
- Works closely with Development PM to obtains governmental approvals required to develop various Meijer retail concepts including representation at hearing and municipal meetings.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You'll Bring With You:
- Bachelor’s degree required
- Minimum 5 years of experience in real estate site selection, acquisition, and entitlements.
- Must have prior Retail Real Estate experience.
- Experience in owned self-developed retail vs build to suit lease preferred
- Strong deal making history.
- Must have excellent organizational, analytical, written, and communicative skills.
- Working ability in various software and technology platforms
- Must possess sound and demonstrated decision making skills, project management, business acumen, interpersonal, leadership, and presentation skills.
- Travel required.