Director, Real Estate – Governance

Role Overview

• 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.
• 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.
• Build and implement standardized intake tools, templates, checklists, and workflows to streamline turn-ins.
• Use metrics and stakeholder feedback to continuously improve intake and approval processes.
• Lead the end-to-end reapproval process to ensure compliance, operational efficiency, and risk mitigation.
• Monitor compliance with reapproval standards and address breakdowns before they create approval or audit risk.
• 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.

Requirements

• 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• 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.
• 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.
• Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities.