Senior Manager, Realty Project Management and Design

Position Summary...

This role is responsible for leading the delivery of a complex portfolio of store merchandise and operations projects across the existing real estate network. The role translates business, operational, and merchandising requirements into executable design and construction plans while ensuring projects are delivered on time, within budget, and in compliance with Walmart brand standards and regulatory requirements.

The position partners closely with cross functional stakeholders and external vendors to manage design strategy, permitting, construction execution, and portfolio level governance while mentoring manager level project leaders and driving continuous improvement across project delivery practices.

What you'll do...

• Oversee a portfolio of concurrent merchandise and operations real estate projects, ensuring alignment to business objectives, brand standards, schedules, and approved capital budgets.
• Develop and manage scopes of work by translating operational and merchandising requirements into actionable design and construction plans while balancing capital constraints.
• Establish and manage portfolio‑level schedules and budgets, identifying cross‑project dependencies, reallocating resources as priorities shift, and mitigating delivery risk.
• Lead design strategy for existing store projects, converting operational requirements into compliant architectural and engineering solutions.
• Review and approve design deliverables, construction documents, and specifications to ensure compliance with Walmart standards, building codes, and ADA requirements.
• Identify constraints unique to existing buildings (for example, structural limitations, phased construction, operational continuity) and implement mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate cross‑functional internal partners—including Store Operations, Space Planning, Merchandising, Facilities, and Realty teams—and external partners such as architects, engineers, general contractors, and consultants.
• Communicate project status, risks, trade‑offs, and recommendations to senior leadership using data‑driven insights and clear option analysis.
• Serve as the escalation point for complex design, permitting, and stakeholder conflicts, resolving competing priorities while protecting business outcomes.
• Represent Realty Project Management in capital planning discussions, providing portfolio‑level insights to support investment prioritization.
• Drive process improvements to reduce cycle times, increase efficiency, and improve quality across project delivery and portfolio governance.
• Establish and maintain standardized project governance practices, including reporting cadences, templates, quality checkpoints, and performance metrics.
• Execute multiple business plans by identifying operational needs, removing barriers, allocating resources, measuring performance, adjusting delivery strategies, and maintaining contingency plans.

What you’ll bring…

• Experience leading a complex portfolio of concurrent store real estate projects, delivering on time, on budget, and to brand standards.
• Ability to translate merchandising/operational requirements into executable design and construction scopes, plans, and specifications.
• Strong portfolio controls: schedules, capital budgets, forecasting, dependencies, resource shifts, and risk mitigation.
• Expertise delivering work in operating, existing buildings (phasing, continuity, safety, structural/MEP constraints).
• Working knowledge of permitting, building codes/ADA, and quality/compliance review of design and construction deliverables.
• Proven cross-functional and vendor leadership
• Executive-ready communication, escalation/conflict resolution, and a continuous-improvement mindset; ability to mentor manager-level project leaders.

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. Yo