Senior Executive – Mixed-Use Development Strategy

Jamestown Management Corporation; Sayreville (NJ); On-site; USD 450,000 - 500,000; Full time

Job summary

Jamestown is seeking a Project Executive in Sayreville, NJ to lead planning, development, and execution of a large-scale mixed-use redevelopment project. You will coordinate Jamestown’s development, asset management, leasing, finance, legal, marketing, and operations teams across internal and external partners.

The role requires deep expertise in mixed-use development, including capitalization, leasing, entitlements, and placemaking, with entrepreneurial judgment and disciplined execution to

Qualifications

• Minimum of 15 years of progressively responsible experience in mixed-use real estate development, investment, and related executive leadership.
• Advanced degree preferred in business, real estate, law, or a related field.
• Extensive experience in mixed-use development, finance, leasing, and operations.
• Experience with brownfield remediation and redevelopment under New Jersey Local Redevelopment and Housing Law.
• Broad knowledge of retail, residential, office, and hotel development formats and NJ/NY metro and national market dynamics.
• Extensive knowledge of retail, food and beverage, and entertainment sectors, including merchandising strategies and lease, sale, and development transactions.
• Knowledge of project capitalization structures and capital market dynamics.

Responsibilities

• Formulate, assess, and implement mixed-use development strategies across retail, office, hotel, food and beverage, and entertainment uses.
• Create and analyze development pro formas for multiple product types, project capitalization and venture structures, predevelopment pursuit budgets, and project operating budgets.
• Strategize and collaborate with outside counsel and other professionals on zoning, planning, approvals and entitlements, property association declarations, easements, title matters, and design review and approval processes.
• Coordinate redevelopment planning with brownfield remediation and manage project components through planning, approval, development, and operations.
• Identify, pursue, and implement public funding sources at local, state, and national levels to support redevelopment, including PILOT and Special Assessment structures, redevelopment area bonds, NJEDA Aspire incentives, brownfield remediation funding, and transportation-related grants.
• Address non-residential development fees and affordable housing compliance requirements applicable to the redevelopment.
• Develop relationships with key local, county, and state governmental stakeholders to educate and advocate in support of project goals.
• Interpret and apply demographic and psychographic analysis, market supply and demand assessments, and market sector analyses to project strategy.
• Partner with internal and external marketing, branding, public relations, and communications professionals on overall project strategy and responses to opportunities and challenges.
• Assess consumer behavior and help drive consumer engagement through placemaking, design, and activation of public spaces.
• Manage internal and external teams toward long-term objectives through incremental milestones, accountability, and disciplined execution.
• Drive project workstreams to completion in a complex public-private environment while continuously flexing priorities to maintain pace and progress.
• Balance entrepreneurial creativity and a sense of urgency with institutional discipline.

Skills

15+ years leadership

Strategic planning

Project coordination

Stakeholder management

Financial acumen

Public-private partnerships

Education

Advanced degree preferred in business/real estate/law

Job description

Jamestown is seeking a Project Executive in Sayreville, NJ to lead planning, development, and execution of a large-scale mixed-use redevelopment project. You will coordinate Jamestown’s development, asset management, leasing, finance, legal, marketing, and operations teams across internal and external partners.

The role requires deep expertise in mixed-use development, including capitalization, leasing, entitlements, and placemaking, with entrepreneurial judgment and disciplined execution to