Description:
Principal Strategist

Exempt

01/23

About Us:

About Us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel, and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It's how we care, grow, and win together

Target is one of the world's most recognized brands and one of America's leading retailers.

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.

Leading the retail revolution as Target's champions of bold strategic thinking, the Enterprise Strategy Development team seeks to drive profitable enterprise growth by exploring new opportunities (e.g., markets, channels, and guest segments), driving strategic focus and accountability, and transforming Target's business. We accomplish this through our values of building a diverse and inclusive team, connecting across the enterprise to foster strategic choice making, and driving the organization towards strategic growth strategies.

As a Principal Strategist, you will lead a team developing 3-5 year time-horizon growth initiatives for the company. This will combine your skills, experience, and talents as a part of a visionary and collegial team that combines traditional strategy consulting and innovative business design thinking. You will work on strategy consulting-like engagements in the core retail business that solve for potential roadblocks to growth and identify new ideas and opportunities for transforming the business. You will be expected to understand retail trends, competitors and guests to develop new concepts and formats that meet future needs in the ever- and fast-evolving, multi-channel retail landscape, both domestically and abroad. You'll also oversee and drive the execution of numerous strategy projects by Project Managers and Analysts to ensure quality of design, problem solving, execution, synthesis, and communication of results. By managing relationships with executive leaders of areas such as Merchandising, Marketing, and Guest Insights, you'll drive strategic business decisions. Likewise, in collaboration with Strategy & Innovation leaders, you'll prioritize your team's resources and expand your team's knowledge base in one or more areas.

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

About You:

• 7+ years of work experience after graduate school in corporate strategy leadership roles including assessing business strategies, leading advanced analysis and problem solving, and developing multi-year business strategies or 4+ years of prior experience in dedicated engagement/project leadership experience with a consulting firm.

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 :$123,100.00 USD - $221,600.00 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. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. 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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