Description
JOIN OUR TEAM
You may have already stopped for coffee, refueling your car, or eating something on the go. Then you know what Couche-Tard is. Our mission at Couche-Tard is to make our customers' lives a little easier every day. We have grown into a successful global company with over 16,000 stores in 29 countries, serving over 6 million customers every day. In total, more than 150,000 people work in our stores and help desks.
Director, Real Estate Development_______________________________________________________________________
Department: Real Estate
Location: Laval (4204, boul. Industriel, Laval)
Hybrid mode: 3 days at the office and 2 days remotely
Type of employment: Permanent, Full Time (40 hours)
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THE ROLE
The North America Real Estate Development team is working hard to accelerate Alimentation Couche-Tard's (the “Company”) 10 For The Win Global Strategy by finding new sites, opening new stores, relocating strong ones, rebuilding older ones, optimizing our existing network across the United States and Canada.
As a key leader of the Global Real Estate Development team, you will be instrumental in supporting these goals through managing your team of Development Managers. You will also be responsible for communicating, coordinating, and building support with our regional or Business Unit (“BU”) operations teams, marketing teams, fuels teams, our construction team, and related internal and external stakeholders.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
People: The Director must develop everyone to their full potential to be the best version of themselves.
Production: New site identification, investigation, analysis, production, and store openings are the major performance indicators for this role. You will be holding all stakeholders accountable to deadlines.
Communication: The team you manage must align with Operations and other key stakeholders. Building strong relationships is key to success.
Project Management: Helping to move projects along our process and to remove hurdles is critical to this role.
You will ultimately be accountable for the performance of third-party project managers, civil engineers, architects, attorneys, expeditors, and other related development personnel throughout the entitlement and permitting process. The direct management and performance of these groups is critical to your success in this role. You will be responsible for creating, managing, and adhering to site specific budgets, procedures, approvals, and payment processes.
You will be leading a team and must be able to think strategically and execute tactically with a sense of urgency. Your team's success is ultimately your success.
Travel
Up to 50% of the time
WHAT YOU'LL NEED
We want you to join our team! Here's what we're looking for:
Education
Bachelor's degree.
Financial education/background desired; knowledge of general budget planning/procedures preferred.
Experience:
5+ years relevant work experience with Real Estate, Retail Site Selection, Construction, Project Entitlement, Strategy, Finance, Environmental Compliance, Data Analytics, Economic Evaluation, M&A, Engineering and Design and Procurement.
Extensive experience working directly in Operations is very highly preferred. This includes but is not limited to P&L management.
Knowledge and skills:
Highly organized with the ability to manage multiple projects, meet tight deadlines, and continually prioritize and re-prioritize tasks as new projects are assigned.
Advanced Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint proficiency, and ability to become proficient with additional software and applications, including but not limited to KLI/TAS/Kalibrate.
Must possess strong analytical skills, a strategic mind and have a strong attention to detail.
Must be comfortable speaking and communicating to the team, third parties and senior leadership.
Prior experience leading a team.
Language skills:
Bilingualism is mandatory (French and English) in both written and spoken languages, as the person will be required to serve English-speaking regions.
WHY WORK WITH US
Our job openings in stores and offices allow you to grow quickly within a global company, while benefiting from a dynamic work environment that puts people first. Wherever you are in your journey, we have a place for you. Here are some of the attractive benefits we offer:
Alimentation Couche-Tard has been named one of Montreal's Top Employers for 2023;
A full range of benefits (medical, dental, etc.);
Possibility to join a pension plan with employer contributions or a share purchase plan;
Discounts for employees in stores and at many of our partners;
Paid leave including vacation, sick and personal leave;
Scholarship program available to the employee and the employee's children;
Learning opportunities to develop new skills and grow professionally in a growing company;
Work in hybrid mode.
INTERESTED? You are only a few clicks away from joining an exceptional company! Those interested in this position should apply on our career site: https://carrieres.couche-tard.com
Couche-Tard attaches great importance to diversity in the workplace and subscribes to the principle of employment equity by encouraging applications from designated groups, namely: women, Aboriginal people, persons with disabilities and members of visible minorities.
We thank all candidates for their interest in this position; Only selected individuals will be contacted.
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Couche-Tard / Circle K valorise la diversité et de l'inclusion et vise à créer un milieu de travail sain, accessible et gratifiant qui met en valeur la contribution unique de nos employés au succès de notre entreprise. En tant qu'employeur qui s'engage à respecter l'équité en matière d'emploi, nous encourageons les candidatures les plus diverses afin de pouvoir nous doter d'un effectif varié et représentatif de nos clients et des communautés que l'on sert. Des accommodements sont disponibles sur demande pour les candidats qui participent à tous les aspects du processus de sélection.
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