Project Leader - Real Estate Process and Strategy

Project Leader

With a career at The Home Depot, you can be yourself and also be part of something bigger.

Position Purpose :

This is a high-impact role at the intersection of finance, technology, and real estate. You'll help shape the future of how we manage and optimize our property portfoliodriving innovation through data-driven solutions and bridging financial strategy with emerging technologies.

Why Join Us?

We are seeking a strategic and technically skilled Project Leader to drive process improvement and operational efficiency across our Real Estate, Construction, and Property Management teams. This role will lead the integration of AI and automation into key workflowsstandardizing data, optimizing dashboards, and minimizing manual errorsto unlock scalable, data-driven solutions.

Responsibilities for this role includes :

• Lead cross-functional initiatives to automate and streamline real estate operations using AI tools and platforms.
• Design and implement AI-enhanced dashboards that reduce duplicative work and improve reporting accuracy.
• Collaborate with data science, finance, and property teams to identify automation opportunities and deploy AI solutions.
• Champion the use of generative AI for summarizing lease documents, forecasting models, and scenario planning.
• Ensure ethical and secure AI deployment aligned with enterprise governance standards.
• Monitor and measure the impact of AI implementations on business outcomes and operational KPIs.

Key Responsibilities :

40% Project Control - Develops an effective plan for controlling project scope, schedule and cost, and monitors project execution to ensure that the plan is being followed. Creates and effectively coordinates documentation to explain changes or potential changes to the baseline and ensures the approved changes are implemented.

30% Project Communications - Develops an effective plan for communicating project information to the project team and to the project stakeholders. Develops written status reports and scorecards and creates / presents project review documents to senior leadership.

10% Project Risk Assessment - Leads the definition of project risks and the required mitigation approaches. Monitors project activities for the occurrence of risks and takes timely action to escalate or mitigate the risk. Advises project team members and stakeholders of actions required or completed.

10% Project Lessons Learned - At the completion of a project or project phase, captures key lessons learned and communicates to peer Project Leaders. Effectively applies lessons learned in subsequent projects.

10% Project Environment - Shares responsibility with the project leadership for providing a good working environment. Ensures teams are staffed, duties and responsibilities are understood by everyone and that an inclusive environment is maintained.

Direct Manager / Direct Reports :

Reports to Director Finance.

This role has no direct reports.

Travel Requirements :

Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.

Physical Requirements :

Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions :

Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications :

Experience with AI tools such as Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini, or Power Platform AI integrations.

Ability to translate business needs into technical solutions and lead cross-functional teams.

Must be eighteen years of age or older.

Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications :

Expert experience with writing complex SQL queries

Experience with data visualization using Tableau

Experience with data visualization and developing dashboards

Experience in MS Excel

Working knowledge of analytical / statistics software (eg, SPSS, SAS, R, Stata)

Demonstrated ability to collaborate and work effectively with cross-functional teams

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Minimum Education :

The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Preferred Education :

No additional education

Minimum Years of Work Experience :

Preferred Years of Work Experience :

No additional years of experience

Minimum Leadership Experience :

None

Preferred Leadership Experience :

None

Certifications :

None