Vice President of Development

ABOUT THE ROLE

Our client is one of Southeast’s fastest growing investment and development firms with HQ in Nashville. The VP of Development is responsible for the day-to-day oversight of multiple mixed-use & self-storage development projects located in Southeastern region for the company from acquisition hand-off through to completion and turn over to asset management. This role reports to the CEO and works with other members of the company to successfully complete the developments on time, within budget and adhering to the brand objective.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to :

Pre-Construction

• Develop scope of projects with acquisitions, asset management and interior design
• Develop budgets / estimates at all phases of the project and manage the design consultant team to ensure development budget is met
• Utilize units cost and estimating software in preparing hard cost estimates
• Develop preliminary schedules from acquisition through expected turnover
• Issue RFP’s to consultants and make recommendations to senior management based on analysis of RFP’s
• Oversee the design and architecture to ensure owner budget and design objectives are being met
• Present design options / intents to management at differing stages of development
• Manage consultants to ensure owner timelines are met and brand standards adhered to
• Initiate contracts and negotiate terms with consultants, contractors and legal.
• Ensure General Contractor bid qualifications are complete and accurately represent the scope of work and design intent of the Construction Documents.
• Review / approve invoices to ensure compliance with commitments
• Provide weekly updates to the both the operating and development teams.
• Develop & recommend contracting strategy
• Review construction bids for thoroughness of project cost detail, proposed GC project teams, qualifications and assumptions, durations / sequencing within contractor schedules, scope gaps, allowances carried, value engineering opportunities, and provide recommendations to senior management based up bid review.

Construction

Post-Construction