Portfolio Strategy Manager

Job summary

COMPANY OVERVIEW Bri***, Inc. (BSAM), headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, and Bridgestone Europe, Middle East and Africa (BSEMEA), headquartered in Brussels, Belgium, operate collectively as a “Bridgestone West” strategic region. This region services the strategic business needs of teams across the Americas, Europe, Middle East and Africa.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Real Estate, Finance, Market Research, Statistics or related fields, is desired.
• 8-10+ years working in a corporate setting with experience in retail real estate, market strategy, analytics, consulting, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience leading teams or cross-functional initiatives at scale
• Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and communicate complex analyses to executive audiences with experience supporting executive-level decision-making and capital planning.
• Ability to translate business
• and specifications into actionable strategies, insights, and executable plans with minimal direction or oversight.
• Experience with retail site selection, market planning, portfolio optimization, or real estate strategy.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint; strong working knowledge of Microsoft Word.
• Experience utilizing GIS, spatial analytics, trade area analysis, or location intelligence platforms (e.g., Esri, Alteryx, Placer.ai, Buxton, Kalibrate, or similar

Responsibilities

• Market Growth Strategies & New Store Development
• Own the enterprise market growth strategy, defining where and how BSRO expands based on data-driven opportunity sizing and financial return threshold (in partnership with New Store Development team).
• Build and maintain analytical frameworks, leveraging consumer, demographic, psychographic, mobility, and competitive data to inform market planning, site selection, and portfolio optimization strategies.
• Serve as an industry and market expert on competitive and market intelligence, including traveling to key locations across West Retail.
• Develop, implement, and optimize data to support market planning and strategy, leveraging demand-driven market intelligence and advanced sales forecasting models.
• Lead the technical review and preparation of sales projections for development and portfolio initiatives.
• Develop and present data-driven recommendations and executive presentations for capital planning and real estate investment decisions
• Portfolio Management
• Develop store and market strategies and conduct comprehensive market reviews; present in meetings at both Division and Corporate levels.
• Own portfolio-wide capital allocation frameworks, prioritizing investments across remodels, relocations, closures, and new developments.
• Refine and manage quantitative multi-variable ranked scoring model to support selection of store remodel and refresh prioritization, incorporating field operations insights and qualitative inputs
• Monitor portfolio performance and key real estate KPIs, identifying opportunities to improve market penetration, store productivity, customer access, and investment returns.

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Company size

Relocation