Description:
Sr. Analyst, Category Insights
Exempt
10/22

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

Fueling the continued success of one of the world's most beloved and recognized brands is a distinctly capable, curious, and accomplished Insights organization. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights, then craft every interaction to build brand love and drive growth. We are market experts who insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest segments and behaviors, strategies and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies enables us to understand our guests deeply, inform short- and long-term business decisions, and position Target for long-term success within an increasingly competitive environment. Leveraging our collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive, and open team culture, we deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target.

Insights, Strategy, and Growth Overview:
Target is one of the best-loved and most recognized retail brands in the market. Our Insights, Strategy, and Growth team helps run the business today, while also focusing on the growing the business for the future. We do this by anticipating and effectively responding to challenges and fueling Target's growth-today, and into the future-regardless of the changes ahead. Here, you will work with internal partners and external agencies in a wide variety of roles. You will also have the opportunity to develop skills across our team superpowers, including consumer & industry insights, strategic problem solving, strategy activation, experimentation, and scaling new businesses. Do you love the idea of helping to shape Target's long-term strategy grounded in guest and industry insights? 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 for new business opportunities? Then, bring your talent to the game and join us as we move Target forward."

Enterprise Insights Overview:
A role on the Enterprise Insights team means being a champion for our current and future guests, and inspiring the organization to act in their best interest. Here, you will solve diverse, complex challenges that help the entire enterprise seize our most valuable and important opportunities. You will distill relevant information into insights and implications that answer the ever-critical question: "So what?" Your influence will help spark original ideas and actionable strategies at the enterprise level, setting a clear foundation of information and insight with context and clarity that all teams can use to apply to their own business objectives.

The Category Insights team within Enterprise Insights focuses on understanding consumer behaviors, attitudes, needs, and motivations across Target's core businesses - Apparel & Accessories, Home, Electronics/Toys/Entertainment, Beauty, Food & Beverage and Essentials - and all seasonal holidays. We consult with Merchants and Marketers, providing understanding, empathy, and insight of our guests and consumers in the development of business and communication strategies. We leverage primary, secondary, syndicated and internal sales data to paint a clear picture of what our guests are doing and why, and where the greatest opportunity spaces lie for the businesses. We translate enterprise-wide insights, like macro trends, to the business categories. And we provide clear recommendations for where and how strategies need to adjust based on what we are constantly learning about our guests. At our best, we are re-framing how our partners think about the challenges and opportunities facing their businesses based on deep and differentiated insights.

A role on the Category Insights team means being a champion for our current and future guests and inspiring the organization to act in their best interest. Your influence will guide actionable strategies with a clear foundation of information and insights.

Position Overview:
As a Sr. Analyst, Category Insights, you will play a role in partner's guest-centric decision-making and shaping Target's marketing and business strategies that address changing consumer and business needs. You will help scope, design and execute a variety of insights projects in partnership with internal and external partners. A role on the Category Insights team means you will contribute to helping inform Target's current and future category business growth.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree
• Required: 4+ years of work experience
• Preferred experience: 2+ years of insights/market research experience
• Experience in a variety of methodologies, including qualitative (e.g. ethnography, online consumer panels, IDIs, shopper intercepts, consumer journeys) and quantitative (segmentation, buyer analysis, concept testing, brand tracking)
• Experience partnering with third-party research agencies
• Experience analyzing syndicated/marketplace data and applying macro trends
• Ability to synthesize findings from multiple sources to tell a holistic, influential "what, why, so what" story and start to translate into insights
• Strong collaborator who can effectively influence a diverse set of stakeholders both horizontally and vertically
• Ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid work arrangement means the team members core role will be a blend of virtual and onsite at a Target location. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at their primary HQ work location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. The salary range is :$65,600.00 USD - $118,100.00 USD. Pay is based on several factors which may include, but are not limited to education, work experience, certifications, labor markets, etc. In addition to your salary, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

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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