Vistra Corp.

Director Real Estate & Land Management

Vistra Corp.$120K — $150K *
Real Estate & Construction
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years in land management or related fields, with a minimum of 3 years in leadership roles
  • CPL designation or Texas Real Estate Sales/Broker License preferred
  • Deep knowledge of land operations and risk management
  • Familiarity with oil, gas, mineral practices, and regulatory frameworks
  • Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, especially advanced Excel and Teams
  • Strong analytical skills with business-savvy acumen
  • Exceptional negotiation and communication abilities.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement strategic real estate portfolio initiatives
  • Oversee land operations, ensuring compliance and effective issue resolution
  • Identify value-creating opportunities in acquisitions and leasing
  • Establish scalable processes to reduce risks and enhance performance
  • Lead a high-performing team fostering collaboration across functions
  • Manage negotiations with third parties, including landowners and governmental agencies

Benefits

  • Professional development opportunities
  • Collaborative and team-oriented work environment
  • Exposure to diverse real estate and asset management sectors
  • Opportunity to influence portfolio strategy on a grand scale
  • Engagement with a wide range of stakeholders in the energy and mining industries
Full Job Description
Job Summary
Responsible for the strategic management, optimization, and stewardship of the company's 275,000+ acre geographically diverse real estate portfolio, across power generation, mining, and development assets.
Lead land operations, portfolio strategy and long-term value creation initiatives while ensuring operational compliance and risk mitigation.
Develop and execute strategies to maximize portfolio value, mitigate risk, and support enterprise objectives through scalable processes, technology solutions, and organizational best practices.
Ensure operational excellence through effective management of land agreements, compliance obligations, and third-party/landowner relationships including governmental agencies, oil & gas companies, tenants and other third parties.
Provide support and development opportunities to direct reports.
Serve as a strategic advisor on land-related matters, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, and portfolio optimization opportunities.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities
• Develop and execute the company's real estate portfolio strategy, including optimization, monetization, and long-term stewardship initiatives
• Lead land operations activities, including lease administration, contractual compliance, landowner relations, and operational issue resolution
• Identify and evaluate opportunities for portfolio value creation, including acquisitions, dispositions, leasing, agricultural licensing, and mineral leasing
• Develop and implement scalable processes, controls, and performance metrics to improve organizational effectiveness and reduce risk
• Lead and develop a high-performing team while fostering collaboration across business functions
• Represent Vistra in third party negotiations including landowners, leaseholders, governmental agencies, tenants, and other stakeholders

Education, Experience & Skill Requirements
• 10+ years relevant experience (land management, real estate, asset management, energy, infrastructure, mining, oil & gas, or related industries) with 3+ years leading direct report(s) required
• Certified Professional Landman (CPL) designation and/or Texas Real Estate Sales or Brokers License is preferred
• Significant experience in land operations, including lease administration, contractual obligations, landowner relations, and operational risk management
• Knowledge of land, mineral, and oil and gas profession practices, procedures, documents, appraisal techniques and familiarity with governmental agency rules and regulations
• Advanced Microsoft office capabilities (Teams, Sharepoint, Outlook, PowerPoint, Word, Excel)
• Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, negotiation, communication, and people management skills
• Strong business, analytical, and financial acumen with the ability to translate complex information into actionable recommendations

Key Metrics
• Portfolio value creation initiatives identified and executed
• Lease compliance, payment accuracy, and renewal performance
• Landowner satisfaction and resolution of operational issues
• Collaborate and communicate with key stakeholders and other internal business functions, including but not limited to site management, Mining, Legal, Tax teams
• Meet or exceed all annual business objectives (i.e., land sales, surface waiver, etc.)
• Meet or beat required timing of acquisitions and other negotiation timelines (i.e., road closure & vacates, facilities relocations, etc.).
• Meet or exceed annual revenue goals for sales, Oil & Gas revenue that typically exceed $5M and expenditure limits for Capital and O&M Expenditures that exceed $10M per year
• Delivery of process improvement and technology enhancement initiatives
• Employee engagement, team development, and succession readiness

Job Family
Facilities

Company
Luminant Mining Company LLC

Locations
Irving, Texas

Texas

About Vistra Corp.

Vistra (NYSE: VST) is a leading Fortune 500 integrated retail electricity and power generation company that provides essential resources to customers, businesses, and communities from California to Maine. Based in Irving, Texas, Vistra is a leader in the energy transformation with an unyielding focus on reliability, affordability, and sustainability. The company safely operates a reliable, efficient, power generation fleet of natural gas, nuclear, coal, solar, and battery energy storage facilities while taking an innovative, customer-centric approach to its retail business. In the 2020 Forbes Global 2000, Vistra Energy was ranked as the 756th-largest public company in the world. The company owns the Moss Landing Power Plant in California which currently contains the largest battery energy storage system in the world. In 2016, Texas Competitive Electric Holdings, parent company of TXU Energy and Luminant, emerged from Chapter 11. TCEH was then rebranded as Vistra Energy. Vistra acquired Dynegy in 2018. In 2019, Ambit Energy was acquired, resulting in a 32% residential market share in ERCOT, with NRG Energy as its largest competitor. It also acquired Crius Energy in 2019.
Learn more about Vistra Corp.
Size
5,060 employees
Market Cap
$9,272
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