Gensler Work Values

Daily Duties at Gensler:

Manage Bank of America Retail account and 13 person team. Responsibilities included prototype maintenance, schematic design, planning, and overseeing production of the rollout. The most successful year included opening a combination of more than 30 new store greenfield sites and major/minor renovations through the Northeast, mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions resulting in more than one million dollars in revenue. Additional role included Store Designer for the Southeast Toyota account. Position required visiting Toyota dealerships in the Southeast region, surveying existing conditions and collaborating with owners and staff members to create an approved design that fit dealer’s needs, and met Toyota USA’s “Image 2 Prototype” guidelines. Completed 6 stores and delivered design packages ranging from 120,000SF new stores to 70,000SF Major renovation stores. Store designer responsibilities: • Implement Store Design and requirements as well as the store construction process, ensuring quality control and that the final product is aligned with both owners expectations / needs and client’s brand strategy and brand aesthetic. • Lead design discussions, hand sketching, and presentations. • Responsible for traveling and overseeing the store design and direction, ensuring cohesive design aesthetic for architecture, interiors and fixtures and quality control during roll out. • Make decisions related to the development of the new store concepts innovation, implementation and development process. • Provide strategic real estate input on site and LOD evaluations, ensuring brand requirements are incorporated into deal negotiation. • Knowledge of architectural building systems (structural, mechanical, electrical) and their impact on design Project management responsibilities: • Manage client, team and project coordination, including full documentation coordination • Keeping clients, staff and senior management informed • Responsible for overseeing the roll out of new stores, downsizes, relocations, repositions and remodels ensuring quality control and value engineering. • Resolve complex technical and design issues according to time and budget. • Monitor project profitability; plan & track hours, review project financial information with accounting, monitor accounts receivable, forecast revenue and staffing and track additional services. • Coordination of all required disciplines and managing sub-consultants. • Conduct Annual performance reviews with team and create goals and opportunities for their future. • Lead Conference calls and meetings between consultants, clients and city officials.

What they like about Gensler:

Organizations with strong, centralized leadership are particularly attractive to you. You require a work environment with leadership that aggressively seeks to expand and grow the business and does so in a visible and decisive manner. In general you prefer to work in an environment in which there is a strong link between leadership, its actions, and a strong set of company-wide values.

Tags

AutoCad, Drafter, Project Manager, Design Drafter, Construction Administration, Project Architect, Retail Architecture, Model Building, Permit Expediting

Skills

Retail & Commercial Architecture • Conceptual Design & Implementation • Full Lifecycle Project Management • Global Store Design • Onsite & Virtual Team Building • National & International Coordination • Process Development Strategic & Tactical

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