(USA) Director, Real Estate - Governance

Walmart • Bentonville, AR

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The Director, Realty Governance leads the governance strategy, operating model, and execution cadence that enables timely, high-quality decision-making across Walmart’s Retail and Supply Chain Real Estate portfolio. This role drives disciplined governance turn-ins and approvals for new stores, lease renewals, and reapprovals by standardizing intake tools, improving submission quality, and ensuring adherence to governance requirements. This leader also strengthens executive communication across the Real Estate organization by elevating presentation quality, storytelling, and leadership readiness for committee forums and senior decision-makers. Partnering closely with Real Estate, Legal, Finance, Strategy, Operations, and executive stakeholders, the Director reduces approval-cycle risk, increases transparency, and enables faster, better-informed enterprise decisions.

Requirements

• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and align stakeholders to deliver outcomes
• Strong executive presence, including executive-level presentations and storytelling
• Excellent executive communication skills (written, verbal, and committee-ready messaging)
• High attention to detail with strong organization, planning, and follow-through
• Familiarity with corporate real estate concepts, approvals, and portfolio decision-making
• Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, Construction Management, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field and 5 years’ experience in architecture, construction management, engineering, or related area OR 7 years’ experience in architecture, construction management, engineering, or related area.
• 1 year’s supervisory experience.

Nice To Haves

• Legal background or strong experience partnering with Legal on governance and risk considerations
• Experience with portfolio strategy and enterprise decision forums
• Project management capability, including managing timelines, dependencies, and complex stakeholder groups
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using data and reporting to identify process improvements and measure outcomes
• Preparing and executing budgets
• Profit and Loss (P&L) Responsibility
• Project Management
• Masters: Business Administration
• Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification

Responsibilities

• Lead governance planning and execution: Own governance calendars, timelines, dependencies, and submission readiness across Retail and Supply Chain Real Estate initiatives. Drive disciplined, on-time governance turn-ins that support enterprise decision-making and reduce approval-cycle risk. Identify risks, gaps, and interdependencies early; align stakeholders and drive resolution to prevent delays. Establish operating rhythms, milestones, and accountability mechanisms to ensure consistent execution.
• Drive approvals for priority real estate initiatives: Lead governance approval processes for new stores, lease renewals, reapprovals, and other priority real estate matters. Align cross-functional partners to ensure submissions are complete, accurate, and decision-ready before entering formal approval forums. Resolve issues upstream to reduce escalations, rework, and cycle-time delays. Ensure adherence to corporate governance standards, approval requirements, and committee expectations.
• Design and scale intake tools and processes: Build and implement standardized intake tools, templates, checklists, and workflows to streamline turn-ins. Improve data quality, consistency, and transparency across the approval lifecycle. Create scalable mechanisms that reduce downstream clarifications and improve predictability of submission quality. Use metrics and stakeholder feedback to continuously improve intake and approval processes.
• Own and evolve the reapproval framework: Lead the end-to-end reapproval process to ensure compliance, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation. Refine the reapproval model, timelines, and governance requirements to support faster, more informed decisions. Monitor compliance with reapproval standards and address breakdowns before they create approval or audit risk. Partner with key stakeholders to maintain clear documentation and governance discipline.
• Use data to measure performance and improve outcomes: Define and track KPIs for submission timeliness, cycle time, rework, stakeholder satisfaction, compliance, and approval outcomes. Create visibility into governance performance through reporting, reviews, and executive-ready updates. Drive continuous improvement initiatives that increase efficiency, reduce risk, and strengthen governance effectiveness.

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Incentive awards for performance
• 401(k) match
• Stock purchase plan
• Paid maternity and parental leave
• PTO
• Multiple health plans
• Medical coverage
• Vision coverage
• Dental coverage
• Company-paid life insurance
• Paid time off (including sick leave)
• Family care leave
• Bereavement leave
• Jury duty leave
• Voting leave
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Company discounts
• Military Leave Pay
• Adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement
• PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes
• Walmart-paid education benefit program (Live Better U) for full-time and part-time associates

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director