Real Estate Manager

Description

We are passionate about creating a shopping experience that customers will love. If you are interested in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly-collaborative environment, we want to talk to you.

The Worldwide Retail Growth and Development team is seeking an experienced Real Estate Manager to support the long term growth of the Amazon and Whole Foods Market physical store network. Primary responsibilities are identifying, evaluating, presenting to senior leadership for approval, and negotiating lease documents for new store sites that improve the overall customer experience and grow our portfolio of quality store locations. The ideal candidate is creative, excels at solving complex problems, and is experienced with engaging and negotiating with landlords. The position requires collaboration with a wide variety of cross-functional teams and effectively managing a pipeline and delivering approved sites and signed leases for new stores.

Key job responsibilities

• Take the lead to identify, evaluate, negotiate, and execute on new sites that are a strategic fit for various Amazon and Whole Foods Market physical store concepts.
• Evaluate the economic viability and strategic rationale for new site opportunities.
• Lead a group of cross-functional teams required to bring these projects to life.
• Lead project management of deal lifecycle from initial identification through lease execution.
• Communicate and present network strategy and site specific execution in a thoughtful, concise, accurate, and professional manner.
  

A day in the life

This position requires travel to evaluate new site opportunities. This role requires regular collaboration with local real estate brokers, site research, store design and development, legal, and operations stakeholders.

The Real Estate Manager will negotiate LOI's, present new site opportunities to senior leaders for approval, and negotiate lease documents for approved sites.

We are open to hiring candidates to work out of one of the following locations:

Arlington, VA, USA | Austin, TX, USA | Chicago, IL, USA | Nashville, TN, USA | New York, NY, USA | Seattle, WA, USA

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of professional experience in commercial real estate with emphasis on site selection, development, finance and strategic planning.
• 5+ years experience negotiating real estate documents. Strong understanding of deal structures and legal agreements.
• End-to-end negotiation experience, including identifying, developing, and executing retail sites.
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Ability to juggle multiple priorities and make things happen in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Ability to work cross-functionally and across multiple businesses.
• Excellent organizational and project management skills.
• Strong business writing skills with the ability to communicate information and updates in a clear and concise manner.