Construction Project Manager

At the LEGO Group, we are passionate about inspiring creativity and learning through play.

Join our Construction and Project Management team and bring your ability to think strategically, adapt quickly, and respond to the ever-changing needs of the retail business!

• Coordinate day to day processes of delivering, streamlining, efficiency and cost control of store build outs, remodels and refurbishments primarily across North America.
• Ensures teams ownership of global construction meetings; facilitating and leading the content of agenda points through meeting notes, action items and follow-up information as needed.
• Primary contact for USA organization between external Project Managers and LEGO internal partners for complete visibility of all projects.
• Drives alignment with LEGO Retail Team to insure smooth move between Real Estate and Store Development and Operations.
• Coordinate contribution of information to internal New Store SharePoint site; ensuring standard process and simplicity.
• Responsible for timely budget tracking, reconciliation and recap, for current/up to date status of all Global projects; bringing up concerns/issues immediately.
• Ownership in Budget planning, tracking and recap Meetings with Partners and respective Retail Controllers.
• Lead external vendors to meet timelines and achievement of LBR store projects including new stores, refits, relocations and remodels.
• Supports where needed processes related to external maintenance partners.

• Active Participation in Global Retail cross function/alignment meetings.
• Drives AAR yearly, analyzing and capturing of historical data and trends to promote competitive advantage in future years.
• Active collaboration with contributed expertise regarding in-store refurbishments and Remodels, chipping in to future planning.
• Drives continuous alignment of processes across markets.
• Leads all aspects of the coordination and process of Global incoming and outgoing information.
• Responsible for all information with/from Global Finance for accurate cost control and budget management.
• Lead international fixtures’ logistics, planning and troubleshooting.
• Primary contact with Global Procurement, driving contract negotiation and exchange.

• Driver of establishing new relationships within the USA vendor portfolio, while Maintaining the strength of current vendor relationships.
• Supporting owner of fixture inventory for USA Store Development; ensuring routine tracking, reconciliation and recaps as necessary.
• Owner of the planning, coordination and communication with centralized Warehouse.
• Leads all aspects of the coordination of furnished fixture orders, shipping, flow and delivery, for new stores, remodels and projects.
• Ownership of centralized catalog archive of all Store Construction retail fixtures; collect, update and organize shop drawings, specs and related material.
• Responsible for continually evaluating the external relationship and processes as set currently; empowered to challenge details, in an effort to streamline, improve and gain insight.

• Evaluation, feedback, and accountability tracking using measurable values and behavior.
• 1:1 meetings with internal and external partners to share/provide feedback, constructive criticism and value adding benefit.
• Meetings with Senior Director to supervise own performance and teams performance.
• Participation on Global team meetings and agendas.

Our team is driving retail growth by building profitable and viable Brand Retail Flagship Stores, Concept Stores and LEGO Certified Stores (LCS), MEG Stores (Merlin Partnership) and 3rd Party / Hypermarket globally. In this collaborative role, you will acquire resources and coordinate the efforts of the Retail team and third party/external Project Managers, Vendors, Architects and General Contractors. This role will also focus on defining and streamlining processes, overall cost and quality control.

As part of the global Construction and Project Management Team, this role supports the USA department, focusing on New Store Buildouts, Refurbishments and Remodels, Maintenance, and special international Retail projects. This role will be responsible for the management of the external consulting team, establishing processes and planning, ensuring alignment and collaboration with business partners in USA.

• Experience in the delivery of retail construction, project management, or business development industry.
• Proven track record of being able to prioritize multiple projects/tasks at one time.
• Global experience or work for an international company.
• Highly effective negotiation skills, good social skills and a strong collaborator.
• Track record of working with top level partners, including level of presentation skills and professional behavior.
• Ability to understand drawings/blueprints, as-built drawings and shop drawings.
• Must be able to learn, understand and grasp concept design and execution of concept.
• Excellent PC experience requiring Microsoft Office Windows, Excel, Word, and Microsoft Project; experience working with PDF and CAD files.
• Willingness to travel (on average once per month)

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