Director, Strategic Projects & Change Delivery

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The Director, Strategic Projects & Change Delivery will play a critical role in advancing Kimco’s enterprise transformation agenda. Reporting into the Office of Innovation & Transformation (OIT), this role is responsible for leading high‑impact, cross‑functional initiatives while helping design and institutionalizing Kimco’s project and change delivery capabilities. This role will serve as both a hands‑on delivery expert and a builder, contributing to establishing best practices, playbooks, tools, and governance models that enable consistent, scalable execution across the organization. The role partners closely with business, technology, and functional leaders to ensure initiatives are delivered effectively and that change is adopted, sustained, and embedded into how Kimco operates.

Key Responsibilities

• Help create and maintain standards, templates, and best practices around project management and change delivery
• Guide and oversee complex, cross-functional transformation initiatives across operations, technology, and other departments/functions.
• Ensure projects are delivered on time, on scope, on budget, and aligned with strategic priorities
• Establish clear project governance, KPIs, decision-making frameworks, and escalation paths to drive accountability and momentum
• Design and execute structured change management approaches that support successful adoption of new processes, systems, and ways of working.
• Partner with functional leaders to assess change impacts, stakeholder readiness, communication needs, and adoption risks.
• Embed change management best practices into project delivery so that change is not an afterthought, but a core capability.
• Develop scalable processes that can be leveraged across initiatives of varying size and complexity.
• Communicate clearly with executive sponsors and senior leaders on project status, risks, tradeoffs, and outcomes.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders navigating complex change.
  
  

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related discipline; MBA preferred.
• 10 years of experience in project management, program delivery, transformation, or change management roles, with demonstrated success leading enterprise‑scale initiatives.
• Proven experience building or formalizing project and/or change management functions, not just operating within them.
• Strong working knowledge of project management and change management methodologies and technologies, with the ability to adapt them pragmatically.
• Exceptional stakeholder management skills and the ability to influence without authority in a matrixed environment.
• Experience working closely with technology, operations, and business teams.
• Able to communicate complex information clearly in both written and verbal formats.
  
  

Preferred

• Certifications: PMP, Prosci Change Management Professional, PgMP, Lean/Six Sigma or equivalent preferred.
• Experience in large, public or private real estate services organizations, corporate working environments, real estate, and/or retail organizations preferred.
• Experience working in management consulting and/or in a PMO/change management function preferred
• Experience with Agile, hybrid, and/or traditional delivery models preferred.
  
  

The expected salary range for this position is between $125,000 and $150,000. The actual compensation will be based on factors such as scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/training, job-related skills, internal peer equity, market and business considerations and other factors permitted by law.

** Kimco Realty is an Equal Opportunity Employer – Veteran/Disability **