A leader who will be a Brand Ambassador for Yellow in all real estate transactions within an assigned geographic territory. Will evaluate prospective sites for new store locations, remodel/expansions, and make recommendations to the President.

Is also responsible for tracking, managing, researching and reporting on the real estate portfolio and related legal obligations stemming from real estate leases. You are also responsible for managing legal action dates as well as preparing and negotiating certain legal documents. 

Job Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• Take a lead in negotiating and renegotiating all leases by ensuring lease/legal documents accurately reflect the transaction and protect the company's investment in current leases.
• Take ownership and full responsibility for meeting growth, work quality and service level goals.
• Complete real estate transactions of varying types and difficulties including: identifying the sites, negotiating basic business terms and site plan, working and communicating with development partners and customers through the store development process in an appropriate and efficient manner, preparing and submitting the proposal package, taking the leadership role in the due diligence, entitlements and legal documentation, and coordinating and tracking the project on applicable project management tracking system.
• Keep current on market conditions, including: maintaining knowledge of all competitive changes in market area, knowing the primary differences between the competitors within his/her market, conducting preliminary individual research to project a sales volume for a specific site, maintaining knowledge of changes in demographics for trade area around site as well as in the market area.
• Play a lead role in building and implementing an annual and 3 year strategic plans that incorporates all Company formats.
• Contribute to Yellow’s growth via new store, remodel/expansion, real estate asset management, surplus property, etc.
• At least 4 to 8 new store and/or remodel projects, possibly assist with acquisitions and disposal of surplus properties, review and process recommendations for 8 to 12 property management requests.
• Manage design, construction development and legal aspects of the deal and address all post deal problems.
• Negotiates deals effectively to minimize occupancy and construction cost.
• Negotiates legal documents to and with landlords and external attorneys and prepares all necessary correspondence.
• Responsible for summarizing status of all leases and pending actions on various databases, Excel spreadsheets, and reporting tools.
• Manages and updates master portfolio information database. Responds to management requests for various ad hoc and regular reports.
• Completes all special projects for Real Estate department. Including projects that require thorough research, analysis, and summarization of complex data for management and executives