Position Summary...
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.
What you'll do...
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.
What You’ll Bring Key Skills/Experiences Required
- 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
Ideal Skills/Experiences
- 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
The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process. Benefits & Perks: Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more. Equal Opportunity Employer: Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers, and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas, and opinions – while fostering a culture of belonging and awareness. At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more. You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable. For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices. Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms. For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart. The annual salary range for this position is $110,000.00 - $220,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
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Minimum Qualifications...
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Minimum Qualifications: 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.
Preferred Qualifications...
Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.
Preparing and executing budgets, Profit and Loss (P&L) Responsibility, Project Management
Masters: Business Administration
Project Management - Project Management Professional - Certification
Primary Location...
814 Respect Dr, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of America
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