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 Merchandising is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how this $70 billion retailer offers the innovative, guest-inspiring items that Target is known and loved for. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, quality and style to elevate Target as the premier retailer in a competitive global marketplace. Through intelligent and progressive business strategies that make the most of Target’s resources and partnerships worldwide, Merchandising works across product categories to create a localized shopping experience online and in our 1800 stores. Are you a creative problem solver who loves to see your work translate into real results? Can you collaborate effectively, execute a plan efficiently and positively influence how Target chooses and presents the right product in the right place at the right price? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

A role in Planning means overseeing the financials and forecasting for Target’s businesses. Here, you’ll conduct comparative analysis of holiday or other seasonal performance and provide the insights that inform the Inventory team’s work to ensure that product supports projected sales. Acting as the hub between Merchandising and Supply Chain, you will create a financial link between these two essential groups and have a voice in some of the most important decisions from a financial strategy standpoint. In this role, you will be the primary Principal in leading the coordination of the transformation of both our financial metrics and business management/investment/demand management processes and their translation into our assortment forecasts and financial forecasts for the Planning Organization.

As a Director Planning leading our Division Support function, you own processes that deliver informed forward looking perspective and recommendations for planning and senior enterprise leadership on critical business decisions, including our seasonal forecasts, channel forecasts, and investment plans. You connect planning across the enterprise and develop a consolidated view of the financial and assortment forecasts put forward by business teams, and drive go-forward decision making. You will manage division and pyramid forecasting and operational routines that thoughtfully sequence work ensuring that operating norms, calendars, tools, and training are in place to support planning teams.

You will translate high level direction and cycle strategy for assortment forecast creation, and manage the roll up and reconciliation of demand and financials driving integration with GIM, S&OP and other enterprise partners. You will lead with insights and analytics, partnering closely with insights teams to improve availability and consistency of information, and cultivate an environment where the planning teams translate insights into recommendations.

You will develop and accelerate planning talent, creating a pipeline for the organization providing hands-on coaching and development opportunities to leads and planners. You will ensure a common understanding of goals, objectives and outcomes across a diverse and vast set of stakeholder groups as well as Sr. Leadership.

This role requires a leader who is curious, has excellent collaboration and communication skills, is willing to take risks, is a critical thinker with a continuous improvement mindset, has a strong analytical skillset and experience working with roundtable business leaders, as well as working across and integrating data, partner team inputs, and macro insights to drive recommendations and action.

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
• 10+ years of relevant experience
• 6+ years of previous broad Merchandising experience
• Outstanding financial acumen, with deep knowledge of the nuances of retail accounting
• Knowledge of financial and merchandise planning systems and processes
• Knowledge of supply chain planning (allocation, replenishment and operations)
• Excellent understanding of mass merchandising, retail, e-commerce and multi-channel retailing
• Ability to manage an internal CFT to align resources and tactics against strategic business goals
• Comfortable taking risks, working through change and supporting creativity
• Entrepreneurial spirit with strong analytical, decision-making, and organization skills
• Strong communication, collaboration, facilitation, and story telling abilities
• Flexibility, resiliency and nimbleness; comfortable working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing
• A performance-driven individual who demonstrates strong initiative and has superior leadership skills
• Experience leading multiple concurrent key initiatives in a fast-paced environment
• Experience building and leading teams
• Demonstrated success in developing scalable processes in a multi-geography operating model