Director, Strategic Initiatives - ESG Strategy - Human Captial

Position Summary

Walmart seeks to lead on Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) practices, disclosures, and outcomes, building a stronger and more resilient business, creating shared value, and fostering trust.

The Director, Strategic Initiatives – ESG Strategy leads the shared value strategy and disclosure approach for a defined issue portfolio: relating to people, including our associate workforce, well-being and growth, belonging, and supplier opportunity.

This role is accountable for drafting and producing external disclosures and report content for these topics (e.g., ESG report sections, stakeholder- and investor-facing disclosures, and responses to common ESG questionnaires/ratings), ensuring alignment with evolving reporting frameworks and regulatory expectations; advising colleagues on Walmart’s shared value agenda (for example, policies, practices and performance targets); assessing Walmart’s performance; and engaging external stakeholders to understand expectations, influence standards and ratings, and share Walmart performance.

This position reports to the Senior Director, ESG Strategy.

• Shape disclosures and report content for the issue portfolio Human Capital for investor and thought leader audiences
  . Craft strong ESG disclosures, leading processes from conception to final publication, adhering to existing and emerging regulatory reporting standards. Develop ESG messaging and work with other members of the ESG team, Investor Relations, and Corporate Communications on the strategy to reach target audiences, including through ESG reporting, direct investor and other stakeholder engagement, and other channels.

• Advise colleagues on Walmart’s shared value agenda for our people-related topics. Stay updated on the latest developments in an issue portfolio centered on human capital, belonging, and supplier opportunity (e.g., regulatory, legislative, competitor trends), and advise on Walmart’s aspirations, policies, practices, targets, key metrics and performance improvement initiatives to enhance performance and reputation. Take a global perspective on emerging frameworks, policies, and practices.
  
  Maintain a robust network of peers and collaborators internally and externally to bring leading insights to your work. Develop annual issue strategies for your portfolio; collaborate with subject matter teams to set annual strategy and reporting plans; regularly engage with subject matter teams to discuss progress and adjust accordingly.

• Lead special projects to enhance ESG performance. Coordinate cross-functional, complex projects to achieve policy, practice, and disclosure outcomes and to enhance Walmart’s understanding of issues and risks in the issue portfolio. Activities could include deep research and benchmarking, development of breakthrough policies or practices, etc.

• Engage/influence external stakeholders. Participate in external events to highlight Walmart’s shared value strategy and best practices in your issue portfolio. Engage investors, NGOs, standard setters/raters, and depending on topic, suppliers, coalition leads, etc. to obtain feedback on our ESG performance, shape industry standards, and influence external perception of our performance.

• Demonstrate expertise in one or more of Walmart’s shared value priority issues: human capital, workforce well-being and growth, belonging, supplier opportunity, etc.
• NGOs/Strong corporate disclosure and report-writing experience: translating technical inputs into clear, concise, decision-useful narratives for external audiences (investors, raters, policymakers, NGOs).
• Visionary thinking backed by strong strategic and analytical framing
• Innovation solutions to complex problems
• Strength in leading through influence and aligning various stakeholders, sometimes with diverging opinions
• Collaborative mindset with strong project management skills
• The ability to pick up on new concepts quickly, synthesize information, and generate insights
• Curiosity and engagement with AI tools to enhance research and benchmarking capabilities as well as drafting and refining written work product
• Influencing perspectives through strong oral and…