Senior Manager, Real Estate Development and Investment

Company Introduction

Coupang is reimagining the shopping experience with the goal of wowing each customer from the instant they open the Coupang app to the moment an order is delivered to their door.

Our services in Taiwan include Rocket Delivery which offers next-day delivery for a wide selection of items at affordable prices Rocket Oversea which offers free international delivery on millions of best-selling products from Korea the U.S. and beyond.

We are looking for talents to help us lead Coupangs expansion in Taiwan. This is an exceptional opportunity to become a part of Coupangs growth in Taiwan and create a world where our customers wonder How did I ever live without Coupang

Role Overview:

The principle Logistics Real Estate Development will need to responsible on the development of large-scale logistics and fulfillment facilities from site strategy and land acquisition through permitting design construction operational handover and stabilization. This role needs to provide strategic direction establish project governance lead critical decisions and align internal and external stakeholders throughout the development lifecycle.

What You Will Do

• Development Strategy and Pipeline: Develop and maintain a multi-year logistics real estate development pipeline aligned with network capacity requirements business growth operational priorities and capital plans. Evaluate development acquisition build-to-suit redevelopment and lease alternatives and provide clear recommendations to leadership on project prioritization timing location and delivery strategy.
• Site Selection and Land Acquisition: Lead the site selection and land acquisition process by setting evaluation criteria directing feasibility and due diligence activities and overseeing commercial negotiations and transaction execution. Ensure that proposed sites meet operational financial legal infrastructure access utility environmental and development requirements before material commitments are made.
• Feasibility Permitting and Development Risk: Establish the development feasibility and permitting strategy for each project and direct specialist teams responsible for zoning entitlement environmental traffic utility building fire-safety and occupancy approvals. Identify material development constraints early define mitigation plans and escalate risks that may affect project viability cost or schedule.
• Investment and Business Case: Own the overall development business case and ensure that project scope total development cost schedule operating assumptions and financial returns are appropriately assessed. Partner with Finance Tax Treasury Legal and Operations to prepare investment recommendations and present key assumptions alternatives risks and required decisions to senior leadership and investment committees.
• Design and Technical Governance: Set the overall design direction and ensure that architecture engineering building systems automation safety sustainability and operational requirements are properly integrated. Chair key design and technical reviews approve material scope decisions and ensure that value engineering and design changes balance cost schedule quality maintainability resilience and long-term operational performance.
• Project Delivery and Construction Oversight: Provide executive oversight of project delivery through internal project managers external consultants designers contractors and developers. Establish clear performance expectations and governance for safety cost schedule quality procurement and change management and intervene directly when significant deviations disputes or delivery risks require senior leadership.
• Commercial and Contractual Leadership: Lead the commercial strategy for major development design construction and developer agreements in partnership with Procurement and Legal. Provide direction on contracting and risk allocation lead material negotiations and ensure that scope pricing schedule commitments warranties change controls remedies and performance obligations adequately protect the company.
• Portfolio and Capital Strategy: Manage development projects as an integrated portfolio applying consistent standards for investment design delivery reporting and risk management. Support asset ownership and capital strategy including joint ventures sale and leaseback forward funding or asset disposal opportunities in partnership with Finance Treasury Tax Legal and Asset Management teams.

Essential Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in Real Estate Architecture Engineering Construction Management Urban Planning Finance or a related field.
• Approximately 15 or more years of relevant experience in logistics industrial commercial infrastructure or large-scale real estate development.
• Proven experience completing at least one full-cycle real estate development project from site identification or land acquisition through permitting design construction handover and operational stabilization.
• Demonstrated ability to lead multidisciplinary internal teams and external consultants contractors developers and government stakeholders.
• Strong understanding of development economics investment analysis project delivery permitting procurement construction and commercial negotiations.
• Experience managing significant capital budgets and presenting investment or project recommendations to senior executives.
• Strong leadership judgment communication negotiation and stakeholder-management capabilities.
• Professional proficiency in Chinese(Mandarin) and English.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with a leading e-commerce logistics retail industrial real estate technology or third-party logistics organization.
• Experience developing automated fulfillment centers distribution centers cold-chain facilities or other mission-critical infrastructure.
• Experience with build-to-suit development joint ventures forward funding sale and leaseback or institutional real estate transactions.
• Experience managing multiple development projects or a regional development portfolio.
• Advanced degree or relevant professional qualification in real estate engineering construction finance or project management.

Recruitment Process

• Application Review - Phone Interview - Onsite (or Virtual Onsite) Interview Offer
• The exact nature of the recruitment process may vary according to the specific job and may be changed due to scheduling or other circumstances.
• Interview schedules and the results will be informed to the applicant via the e-mail address submitted at the application stage.

Details to Consider

• This job posting may be closed prior to the stated end date for application if all openings are filled.
• Coupang has the right to rescind an offer of employment if a candidate is found to have submitted false information as part of the application process.
• Those eligible for employment protection (recipients of veterans benefits the disabled etc.) may receive preferential treatment for employment in accordance with applicable laws.

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