Description:
Director Counsel Operational Strategies
- Transactions

May 2019

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading
retailers.

Target Legal Affairs is a dynamic and deeply knowledgeable team of legal
professionals, each with valuable expertise from several disciplines. This team
advocates for Target and its business in communities across the nation and
works across the entire company to provide internal clients with business and
legal advice. Here, you'll enjoy working autonomously with a healthy work-life
balance. Your passion for learning our business and building relationships with
senior leaders and key business partners will be essential to tackling the
ever-changing legal challenges we face in a dynamic and fast-paced retail
landscape. You'll be challenged and gratified by a role with Target Legal
Affairs.

Within Target Legal Affairs, the Operational Strategies team
provides value-added legal support to Target's Technology, Supply Chain, and
other indirect spend teams in advancement of Target's strategies. In the
role of Director Counsel, Operational Strategies, you will work on a wide
variety of transactions and negotiations, resolve non-litigated disputes, and
advise on a wide variety of sourcing issues. In addition, you will use your
legal acumen to advise on the launch of new businesses and strategies in
emerging areas, and help businesses design operational processes that meet the
company's legal and business goals. You will create and provide both written
and in-person training and self-help tools and retain and manage outside
counsel resources.

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• J.D. degree with
  excellent academic credentials from an accredited law school
• Admitted or eligible
  for admission to the Minnesota bar
• 3-8 years of legal
  experience with expertise in commercial transactions, including software
  license and SaaS agreements
• Demonstrate innovative
  and creative problem solving skills with strong leadership skills
• Curious, pro-active,
  and motivated to learn about new businesses and new legal concepts
• Excited about working
  with a diverse and large internal client base and collaborating with your Legal
  Affairs colleagues
• Comfortable making
  specific recommendations in ambiguous situations
• Excellent sense of
  prioritization and highly organized with the ability to manage multiple
  projects and client relationships in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent written and
  oral communication skills; ability to tailor message by audience, and deliver clear
  and concise advice in a timely manner
• Flexible team player
  and comfortable working with experts, generalists, and senior level leaders
• High level of
  self-motivation, initiative and organization, with the ability to be resilient
  and adaptable to risk, uncertainty, and changing directions, and to seek out
  assistance and advice from others when needed

Qualifications: