Job Description
JOB OVERVIEW
The Real Estate Project Manager plays a lead role in delivering on Eataly's North America growth plans. The Real Estate Project Manager is responsible for managing various components of the early new store delivery process with an emphasis on project initiation, due diligence, and lease negotiation. The Real Estate Project Manager is also responsible for landlord coordination alongside the Design & Construction and Operations teams and acts as the day-to-day point of contact for real estate developers and landlords for any Store Development-related activities.
Reports to the Head of Real Estate, North America.
- In collaboration with the Head of Real Estate, regularly updates the Eataly Executive Team on Real Estate Development Strategy and ongoing projects
- Manages day-to-day relationship with external stakeholders including Landlord, Real Estate Consultants, Owner Representative, Legal Consultant
- Main point of contact and subject matter expert in Buxton to analyze data for potential markets, and Leasecake for lease management software.
- Maintains all document flow and version control of Letters of Intent, P&L documents as well as all deal documents
- Supports and collaborates with the Head of Real Estate and Legal Analyst in deal negotiation, from rent analysis, to review and execution of letter of intent (LOI) to lease agreement and subsequent amendments
- Organizes and standardizes materials to make processes more efficient. Create cadence for Real Estate Committee, Board approvals and to develop speed to market sequencing
- Creates Power Point presentations for assessment of perspective markets and for internal and external stakeholders
- Acts as a liaison between Eataly's Senior Leadership team, the Design & Construction team, the Operations team, and external parties in coordinating the due diligence and pre-development phases on new projects
- Coordinates, jointly with the Owner Representative and the Design & Construction team, the first technical and architectural assessment of perspective locations, the delivery of conceptual layouts and related preliminary capex estimates
- Develops preliminary pro-forma P&L in collaboration with the Finance and Operations teams