Director of Real Estate & Construction

Director of Real Estate & Construction

JOB SUMMARY

This position is with a newly acquired, private equity-backed group located in the St. Louis area. As a site-based, consumer-facing services organization with over 40 locations, the company is seeking a Director of Real Estate & Construction to spearhead various strategic initiatives supporting its aggressive expansion strategy.

GEOGRAPHY - The ideal candidate is located in a few hundred mile radius of St. Louis and is open to some travel.

Responsibilities

• Manage multiple projects, ensuring rapid and efficient execution.
• Provide steady leadership amid uncertainty, change, and aggressive deadlines, especially in a rapidly growing company through denovos and acquisitions.
• Establish a pipeline of denovo locations aligned with the organization’s priorities.
• Oversee the planning, execution, and success of denovo launches, including:Defining timelines, milestones, budgets, resource plans, and success metrics.
• Facilitating daily coordination, steering committee meetings, and communicating roles and responsibilities to key functional leaders.
• Monitoring project health using project dashboards.
• Driving the escalation and resolution of critical project-related issues impacting launch dates.
• Document and communicate key learnings from denovo launches, both positive and negative, to the executive management team.
• Support the execution of the company’s acquisition strategy, including identifying acquisition targets and supporting diligence workstreams.
• Assist with various special operational projects, such as facility renovations, relocations, and footprint planning.

Qualifications/Education/Credentials

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
• Proven ability to build and lead diverse, distributed teams from various internal and external organizations across multiple locations.
• Experience in developing workplans, project scopes, pricing estimates, and presentations to aid in project planning and execution.
• Ability to promote innovative ideas and take necessary risks to lead change.
• Ability to achieve broadly communicated objectives with minimal supervision.
• Capacity to make independent decisions and assume higher-level leadership responsibilities in critical situations.
• Demonstrated problem-solving, decision-making, and financial skills.
• Effective consultative and influencing approach.
• Ability to implement change swiftly.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with a proven ability to work effectively at all organizational levels.
• Willingness to travel as needed.