Ralph Torres

Establish, develop, and lead the Real Estate rollout of the physical site program. Create a research team, analytical software solutions, policies, and procedures for site selection and approval. Select and manage the national broker network, assist in the LOI, lease negotiations, and perform initial onsite due diligence.

Provide business development support with new and exiting customers. Collaborate with engineers and sales teams to develop business and actively foster relationships with customers to envision, create and define their technical roadmap so they can efficiently use their software package.

Developed short and long term growth strategies for Amazon’s Physical store Grocery Footprint. Implementing the framework for real estate market expansion. Partnering with technology teams to create develop and administer GIS solution and data sets to use across all departments. Actively manage third party relationships with external partners to create and enhance tools for a more efficient process of viewing analyzing and approving new locations

Responsible for implementation and serve as Enterprise System administrator for an online Geographic System of Reference used by executive staff. Partnered all departments to determine GIS requirements to produce custom GIS applications with analytic and strategic capabilities.

Collaborated with IT in Master Data Management (MDM) solutions, planning, cataloging and management to track data ownership, maintenance and reporting. Served as Enterprise System Administrator to manage the maintenance of direct feeds from other systems, updates and system/end user support activities.

Established and managed the Market Research department. Led and developed models for analyzing markets and trade areas to provide sales and sales transfer estimates for new stores, relocations, renewals and closures at Executive Real Estate meetings. Directly partnered with Deal Makers to develop overall Real Estate strategy by conducting market specific strategy analyses. Managed the ongoing analysis of an approved location to ensure a successful store opening. Developed competitive analysis to track key tenants and effect of new store
additions.