About Us
Established in 1972, Guardian Health & Beauty is Singapore’s Number 1 Health and Beauty retailer. With more than 127 stores nation-wide, it retails a comprehensive range of health & beauty products. Guardian has evolved from its pharmacy roots to a holistic one-stop solution for customers’ health and beauty needs. It continues to expand its products and service range to meet the redefinition of beauty by today’s customers – where health meets beauty.
With a strong health heritage, it has the largest network of award-winning pharmacists and a wide selection of health products. Professional services such as patient-care counselling, dispensary services, beauty and personal care solutions are offered at stores as a convenient one-stop for health and beauty. Guardian also operates its online store with more than 9,000 products available and offers the “Click & Collect” services. For more information, please visit www.guardian.com.sg. Follow Guardian Health & Beauty on Facebook, Instagram, Telegram, Youtube and TikTok.
Guardian Health & Beauty is a Progressive Wage (PW) mark accredited company.
Role Purpose
To lead multi-disciplined project teams, with direct accountability for overall project delivery.
Responsibilities
- Oversee and manage retail store projects. Responsible for managing budget, schedule, procurement, quality and risk for individual store developments (new/refits/refresh) projects including planning, design, construction, occupancy and closeout.
- Demonstrate capability to read, understand and apply standard to complex documents affecting store development projects, including but not limited to work letters, project charters, presentations, surveys and drawings.
- Interface directly with key stakeholders and project peers (Operations / Design / Marketing / Engineering / Cost Management) to help define project requirements, prepare the scope of work, project delivery resource requirements, cost estimate/ budget, work plan schedule and milestones, quality control, and risk identification.
- Identify external project delivery resources from pre-qualified lists or through individual project qualification process; conducts standard to complex request for proposals; completes bid analysis; leads evaluation interviews, recommends resources to the Property Director.
- Works across function to value engineer schemes and deliver year on year build cost reductions, without impacting the customer experience or impairing operational team members.
- The individual will lead the delivery of store development, using best practice to provide project guidance and direction to achieve project goals.
- Implement effective communication plans for meetings and written reports/meeting minutes to keep stakeholders and line management informed of key project/programme updates
- Ensure project data integrity and documentation is accurate, timely and coordinated.
- Tracks progress of each project against goals, objectives, approved budgets, approved timelines. Reports status and variances. Creates action plans to meet objectives, budget and schedule.
- Implements change management routines to assess change requests, make recommendations, secure business and line management approvals, and issue change orders. Assesses change requests to determine impacts to scope, budget, schedule, quality and risk.
- Any other adhoc duties as and when assigned
About You
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Engineering, Construction Management or a related field
- 5-10 years’ experience in store development
- Demonstrated ability to identify complex project risks, lead constructability reviews, develop risk mitigation and contingency plans, and implement action plans to reduce or eliminate project risks
- Ability to comprehend, analyse, and interpret the most complex business documents. Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive issues. Ability to write reports.
- Ability to motivate and negotiate effectively with top management, and stakeholder groups to take desired action
- Ability to forecast and prepare budgets
- Has a proven record or working with Design, Engineering and Cost Management functions to deliver outstanding stores
- Expert knowledge of building standard/regulatory standards and an understanding of store licensing requirements is essential
- Certification as Project Management Professional (PMP) [accredited by the Project Management Institute (PMI)] and/or Certified Construction Manager (CCM) would be advantageous
Benefits
- Team Member Discount
- Subsidized Medical and Dental Benefits
- Training Opportunities
- Career Advancement
Working Location: Tampines North
