Description:
Manager, Commercialization

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 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.

As a leader on the Enterprise Growth Activation, Commercialization team, you will be part of an agile team of hybrid thinkers, actively leveraging each other's skills and knowledge, with a bias towards action to deliver timely business impact. We will think strategically and envision bold, different and new opportunities for Target and evangelize these with senior leaders and functional peers.

As a Manager, Commercialization - Optical/Vision and Growth, you will be leading growth businesses at various stages from commercialization and scaling to living in a start-up testing, and iterating based on rigorous Guest, Financial, and Operational viability measures. You also will leading Target's optical/vision services partnership, together with broad internal CFT partners and external vendor partners, collaborating effectively to deliver industry leading guest experiences and financial results. Using your strategic problem solving skills, you will drive process improvements and identify business risks and opportunities that will have direct impact on financial and operational direction setting.

You will develop & operationalize processes and tools to integrate into cross functional work enabling the team to drive multiple projects simultaneously. Within your team of Enterprise Growth peers, you will have access to creative and brilliant team members with whom you will connect to compare ideas, methodology, and approach. We value testing and experimentation within our business to accelerate learning about new business opportunities to take objective and calculated risks to differentiate Target within the market as we reinforce our durable business model.

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

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of relevant experience -- such as Merchandising/Capabilities/Growth (including Buying, Planning, Promotions, etc), Store Operations, Category Management
• Experience leading complex projects and enterprise strategies
• Highly committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion within the workspace and business
• Strong strategic, financial, and analytical skills; can easily translate data from an array of sources into insights and recommendations
• Strong collaboration, connection, and influencing skills to partner with cross-functional teams
• Entrepreneurial spirit with strong analytical, decision-making, project management, planning and organizational skills
• Ability to prioritize among competing deliverables and collaborate with and influence a broad group of partners and stakeholders

• Remote eligible
• Travel less than 25%

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 :$67,600.00 USD - $121,700.00 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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