Manager, Store Construction

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Job Title: Manager, GSPC (1 year contractor)

 Reporting to: Head of HR, Korea

Primary Purpose: To lead and manage end-to-end store construction and renovation projects in Korea, ensuring timely delivery, budget compliance, and adherence to global design standards. This role serves as the key liaison between HQ design teams, local architects, contractors, and landlords, driving project execution from planning through completion while maintaining quality, cost efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

• ownership and management of each project until completion
• consolidates detailed site survey package from vendor for CIA HQ design team to design each project
• work closely with local architect to develop DD to FD
• develops critical path and timeline for each project
• forecasts, tracks and manages budgets for each project
• attends landlord meetings when necessary to fully understand landlord fit-out guidelines, local codes, building conditions, approvals, and local authority requirements
• exercises project tender/bidding process with various contractors/vendors
• negotiates with vendors/contractors to meet with financial goals
• manages millwork deliverables with Procurement team vendor
• coordinates with architects/consultants and GC to ensure that store design from CIA HQ design team is executed
• reviews construction and fixture shop drawings with CIA/Fixture team
• attend bi-weekly Exec Review Meeting with executive team members and HQ design team
• produces weekly internal reports for project tracking (for design feedback, development, material orders, and vendors/contractors progress)
• provides site inspections for on-going projects, produces punch lists for millworks and GC works during and at completion of each project
• consolidates cost evaluation and invoices and payment status for project summaries, complete budget close-out of projects within established time frames
• executes and follow-up on all construction/millwork warranties
• for reimbursement from LL, create cost summary sheet attached with copy of invoices, delivery evidence, and payment proof
• assist store operations in maintenance projects where required
• develops and maintain historical construction cost data for regional market
• ad hoc project support when required

Qualifications

1. University graduate required
2. Prior 5 years’ experience as a project manager in commercial building/store construction preferred
3. Ability to read and interpret architectural drawings
4. Good time management skills – able to prioritize job tasks within tight timeline
5. Self-starter, good communication (written and verbal), and interpersonal skills
6. Proficient in Microsoft project/MS office
7. Autocad preferred
8. Business level of Korean and English

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale
  and spirit in his/her team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
• Managerial Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

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