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Associate Counsel - Commercial Transactions

Walmart

Walmart

Legal
USD 80k-155k / year + Equity
Posted on Mar 27, 2026

Position Summary...

Join Walmart’s Legal Contracts Center of Expertise to help scale a consistent, efficient, and risk-aware approach to contracting across the enterprise. In this role, you will partner with various legal, procurement, and business stakeholders to review and negotiate a broad scope of contractual agreements as well as working to standardize templates and playbooks. You’ll drive operational excellence by supporting commercial transaction contracting to reduce cycle times, improve quality, and enable teams to contract faster while protecting Walmart’s interests.

About the position...
The right person will provide cross functional transactional legal support to business, colleagues, and leaders. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment, enjoy solving problems and working collaboratively toward a solution, you’ll find that being a part of our team is a move that brings with it tremendous growth potential and exciting new challenges.

What you'll do...

  • Provide excellent legal advice and counsel to a broad assortment of clients on a variety of topics with a particular emphasis on complex commercial transactions
  • Draft and negotiate complex commercial contracts
  • Bring structure, uniformity and efficiency to the legal department’s transaction work
  • Develop best practices and procedures that will mitigate the company’s risk
  • Develop contract governance including playbooks and training material
  • Identify the need for legal support for business transactions and projects
  • Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders

What you'll bring…
  • Demonstrated excellence drafting complex commercial transactions in a retail context
  • Experience working on cross-functional teams to move projects forward by gaining support needed
  • A proven track record of risk identification, assessment, and mitigation
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Demonstrated bias towards action and innovation
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.
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 $80,000.00 - $155,000.00 Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Additional compensation for certain positions may also include :
- Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Law degree from an accredited law school and 2 years’ experience in law.
License to practice law in at least one state.

Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Primary Location...

811 Excellence, Bentonville, AR 72716, United States of AmericaWalmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug-free workplace and has a no tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.