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Director Operational Excellence (F&B)

Employer
Target
Location
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Start date
Nov 8, 2019
Closing date
Nov 16, 2019

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Category
Retail / Wholesale
Employment Status
Full Time
Description:
About Us:

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

On pace with one of the world's best-loved and most recognized retail brands, Target Strategy & Innovation is focused on the future. We are at the center of developing and enabling how Target evolves to meet the changing needs of our guests while winning a competitive global retail marketplace. Here, you'll partner with internal contacts and external firms in a wide variety of roles-whether you're a technical engineer in San Francisco or a corporate strategist at Target headquarters in Minneapolis. Do you love the idea of helping to shape Target's long-term strategy development? Are you a champion for rigor and process to ensure successful strategic planning? Can you bring your energy and big ideas to the table in order to build momentum in new business innovation? Then bring your talent to the game and join us in bringing to life a portfolio of initiatives designed to move Target forward.

A role within Operational Excellence means working with courageous business leaders to forward their success by solving Target's most meaningful enterprise challenges for sustained growth. You will lead a rigorous problem solving approach to help Target achieve financial and operational goals.

As aDirector of Operational Excellence, you willwork alongside business partners to drive the development and execution of enterprise programs that will establish an environment of continuous improvement and ensure the successful realization of enterprise strategy business, financial, and operational outcomes. You will be responsible for partnering with senior leaders to identify and develop opportunities that can address gaps in competencies and tactics and ultimately achieve the desired performance. In addition, you will deploy systematic methodology for program management to drive performance acceleration across the enterprise and serve as an influential partner to the business to drive top and bottom line impact for the organization.

In this role, you will lead the implementation of Target's enterprise management system with business partners to execute cross-functional programs. This includes conducting gap analysis of program tactics and competencies required to achieve desired outcomes; auditing business strategies, tactics, processes, and analyses judging quality and rigor; and elevating major risks to Operational Excellence team leadership and cross-functional partners. You will also provide thought leadership in partnership with business owners to jointly define program objectives, tactics, and success measures. Likewise, you'll coach leaders through execution phases and directly influence business owners to drive rigor in outcome development, supporting tactics, and processes. You will also be responsible for supporting the business and bringing judgement on addressing critical enablers such as required management decisions, resolution of cross-program interdependencies, and resource gaps. In partnership with SVP, seniorleadership, and pyramid leadership, you will develop critical leadership updates, risk and issue management, and resource deployment to achieve desired outcomes

Core responsibilities of this job are described within the job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business need.

About You:

  • Four-year or advanced degree in Business or Engineering, or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of experience in a retail or operations consulting roles, or a senior role in a business function or management consulting


  • An understanding of industry practices and the competitive retail landscape based on work experience at multiple retailers or consumer goods manufacturers
  • Ability to drive high impact, cross-functional programs with senior leaders and overcome cultural challenges
  • Ability to coach and influence senior leaders and defend your perspective
  • Strong problem solving, synthesizing, and analytical skills
  • Strong written, oral, communication, networking, and presentation skills


  • Ability to take risks, challenge the status quo, and work under ambiguous circumstances
  • Knowledge of Lean or Six Sigma


Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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