Pyramid 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.

Team Overview:

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, formats, channels, and guest segments), driving strategic focus and accountability, and transforming Target’s business.  We accomplish this through our values of building diverse and inclusive teams, connecting across the enterprise to foster relationships, and driving the organization towards bold strategic choices.

Position Overview:

As a Lead Strategist in Enterprise Strategy Development, you will play an integral role in project teams of fellow business strategists, applying your strengths in problem solving, business acumen, and strategy development to shape Target’s long term strategic direction.

This includes:

• Day to day leadershipof project worksteams on strategy consulting-like engagements that identify and seek to harness enterprise or business unit growth opportunities.

• Break down organizational problems into component parts which includes developing work plans to gather inputs, performing analysis, uncovering insights, and communicating findings in high impact ways through thoughtful coordination with the Principal Strategist (project leader). 

• Build an understanding of retail trends, competitors, and consumers to develop new concepts and businesses that meet future needs in the fast-evolving multi-channel retail landscape.

• Build relationships to collaborate cross-functionally and effectively influence without authority to drive business decisions and advance long-term strategic efforts.

• Enable the coordination and collaboration with partners across other Insights, Strategy and Growth teams to maximize strategic impact of work.

• Participate in continuous team improvement including advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, fostering connections and relationships across the enterprise, and demonstrating individual drive and initiative.  

About you (experience requirements):

• 4-year degree or equivalent; advanced degree preferred

• Minimum 2-3 years or experience working at a management or innovation consulting firm [ie. McKinsey, Bain, BCG, etc.] or within the strategy group of a large corporation.

• 5+ years of strategic experience including assessing business strategies, leading advanced analysis and problem solving, and developing multi-year business strategies.  

• Ability to solve complex problems through a systematic approach to structured problem solving such as problem disaggregation, data and competitive analysis, financial opportunity sizing, and consumer research.  

• Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with a strong ability to tell compelling business and result stories, including designing and facilitating key enrollment moments with leaders across the enterprise.

• Ability to take the right partners, influence without authority, and collaborate in a team environment.

• Innate curiosity and desire to learn with a strong inclination to drive for results.

• Desire to contribute to a team culture of bold strategic thinking and Target’s values of Inclusivity, Connection and Drive.

• Willingness to take risks, challenge the status quo, and work under ambiguous circumstances.