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About the Role
Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores, Growth & Development team is seeking a Cost Estimator to join the Store Development team. This role plays a critical financial role in Amazon's physical retail expansion, shaping how hundreds of grocery stores are built across North America. The position involves building program-level cost baselines, driving portfolio analytics, and delivering executive-level insights for leadership decision-making across a portfolio of over 600 locations.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain program-level cost baselines across store formats and retail concepts, keeping financial models current as market conditions and construction costs evolve.
- Execute portfolio-wide budget variance analyses and reconcile actual spend against planned baselines, covering both active and completed projects.
- Support proforma updates as cost drivers shift, and collaborate with design, construction, capital planning, and procurement partners on trade-offs that impact financial goals.
- Prepare monthly and quarterly cost performance data and supporting analyses for leadership review, contributing to executive review meetings and coordinating follow-up items.
- Engage directly with general contractors and external consultants to gather cost data, validate assumptions, and support governance and cost validation processes.
- Support process improvement, governance, and controls within construction management systems to improve data quality, consistency, and operational efficiency at portfolio scale.
- Contribute to the team's AI and analytics strategy by gathering requirements, supporting tool adoption, and tracking the impact of new platform implementations.
- Apply lessons learned from completed projects to continuously sharpen cost baseline assumptions and inform cost models for new store formats and capital programs.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Engineering, or a related field.
- Experience as an Architect, Engineer, Construction Manager, Development Manager, Owner's project management representative or in other Commercial Development and Construction related disciplines.
- Experience with advanced use of Excel and using statistical analysis applications, or experience in construction or project management.
- Experience in financial modeling, or experience with data analytics platforms (Power BI, Python, SQL, Tableau).
- Experience working with General Contractors and construction consultants on cost-related deliverables.
- 5+ years of experience in cost management, financial analysis, or construction cost management.
- Experience in commercial construction.
- Experience in retail or grocery construction projects.
- Familiarity with construction cost indices (e.g., CCI) and industry benchmarking methodologies.
- Experience supporting external consultant relationships in a construction or real estate development context.
- Track record of contributing to cost reduction strategies.
Skills
- Excel
- Statistical analysis
- Construction management
- Project management
- Financial modeling
- Data analytics platforms
- Power BI
- Python
- SQL
- Tableau
- Cost management
- Financial analysis
- Construction cost management
- Commercial construction
- Retail construction
- Grocery construction
- Construction cost indices
- Industry benchmarking
- Cost reduction strategies
Location
- USA, IL, Chicago
- USA, NJ, JERSEY CITY
- USA, TN, Nashville
- USA, TX, AUSTIN
- USA, WA, Seattle
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years of experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- 77,400.00 - 135,400.00 USD annually (Chicago, Austin)
- 89,000.00 - 155,800.00 USD annually (Jersey City)
- 69,700.00 - 122,000.00 USD annually (Nashville)
- 82,700.00 - 135,400.00 USD annually (Seattle)
Benefits
- Sign-on payments
- Restricted stock units (RSUs)
- Health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage)
- 401(k) matching
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
About the Company
- Amazon's Worldwide Grocery Stores, Growth & Development team is focused on physical retail expansion.
- The Cost Management team is the financial accountability and controllership engine of the Store Development organization, owning cost intelligence, vendor performance, and financial governance programs for over 600 grocery locations.
- The team is a direct execution team that owns and solves problems, with programs designed to scale with the business.
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer.
Equal Opportunity
- Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.
- Inclusive culture empowers Amazonians to deliver the best results for customers.
- Provides workplace accommodations for individuals with disabilities during the application, hiring, interview, or onboarding process.