Senior Manager Real Estate Financial Valuation

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Are you ready to take the next step in your career? Join us for an exciting opportunity at Albertsons Companies, where innovation and customer service go hand-in-hand!

At Albertsons Companies, we are looking for someone who’s not just seeking a job, but someone who wants to make an impact. In this role, you’ll have the opportunity to lead, innovate, and contribute to the growth of a company that values great service and lasting customer relationships. This position offers the chance to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment that’s constantly evolving.

Position Purpose The Sr. Manager, Real Estate Financial Valuation is a strategic, results-oriented leader responsible for the financial evaluation, valuation governance, and investment decision support for the company’s retail grocery real estate portfolio. Reporting to the VP, Real Estate Operations, Finance and Analytics, this role plays a pivotal part in shaping real estate investment decisions, influencing executive leadership, and aligning financial insights with enterprise-wide growth, capital allocation, and portfolio optimization objectives.

The role serves as a trusted partner to Real Estate, Finance, Capital Planning, Operations, Market Research, Accounting, Legal, and executive leadership. The Sr. Manager translates complex real estate economics, operating performance, market dynamics, and risk into clear recommendations, while establishing consistent modeling standards, controls, and post-investment learning across the enterprise.

Leadership Mandate Build and lead a rigorous, enterprise-wide valuation capability that improves the quality, consistency, speed, and transparency of real estate investment decisions.

Establish a common financial framework for evaluating competing uses of capital across growth, maintenance, portfolio optimization, and value-creation initiatives.

Strengthen the connection between underwriting assumptions, actual operating performance, and future investment decisions through disciplined post-audits and feedback loops.

Modernize valuation processes through standardized data, scalable models, automation, advanced analytics, and responsible use of AI-enabled tools.

Develop talent and create a high-performance culture grounded in analytical rigor, constructive challenge, business partnership, and clear accountability.

Main responsibilities:

Investment Valuation and Decision Support Lead end-to-end financial valuation for real estate and store investments, including new stores, relocations, remodels, expansions, acquisitions, lease renewals, option exercises, restructurings, dispositions, sale-leasebacks, surplus property strategies and other store initiative investments.

Oversee development and review of discounted cash flow, net present value, internal rate of return, payback, residual value, lease-versus-own, and other decision models appropriate to each investment type.

Develop scenario, sensitivity, break-even, and risk analyses that clearly identify the assumptions and business drivers most likely to change an investment outcome.

Integrate store-level P&L performance, sales and margin expectations, capital requirements, occupancy costs, lease economics, market conditions, cannibalization, competitive impacts, and portfolio considerations into recommendations.

Provide an independent financial point of view, challenge unsupported assumptions, and clearly articulate risks, tradeoffs, alternatives, and value-creation opportunities to decision makers.

Ensure recommendations are concise, decision-oriented, and tailored to the needs of Real Estate leadership, capital committees, and executive stakeholders.

Valuation Standards, Governance, and Controls Own and continuously improve enterprise standards…