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Enterprise Growth Initiatives, Director
Exempt
03/24
About Us:
Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.
On pace with one of the world's best-loved and most recognized retail brands, Target's Insights, Strategy & Growth team is focused on the fueling both present, and the future. We are at the center of developing and enabling how Target evolves to meet the changing needs of our guests while winning a competitive global retail marketplace. Here, you will partner with internal contacts and external firms in a wide variety of role. Do you love the idea of helping to shape Target's long-term strategy development? Are you a champion for rigor and process to ensure successful strategic planning? Can you bring your energy and ideas to the table to build momentum to drive new growth? Then bring your talent to the game and join us in bringing to life a portfolio of initiatives designed to move Target forward.
A role within Enterprise Growth Initiatives means helping Target build beyond the core and create future focus for the organization. You will be part of a team of hybrid thinkers, actively leveraging each other's skills and knowledge, with a bias to deliver timely business impact. From exploration to activation, you will accelerate and prove new concepts that differentiate the guest experience and generate new revenue streams. Whether exploring new business models designed to meet guest needs or commercializing and integrating new growth back into the organization, you will ensure success by rapidly applying your expertise and fostering an entrepreneurial culture while leveraging the benefit of a large organization's knowledge and resources.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
As an Enterprise Growth Initiatives, Director you will lead teams to identify, experiment, and drive new growth opportunities for Target. This could include (but is not limited to):
- Provide bold vision, sound strategic judgment, day-to-day team leadership and development, structure, and project management through often ambiguous bodies of work in support of 2-3 new growth opportunities for Target.
- Hold teams accountable to clear and aggressive milestones and learning plans; drive teams to define and create prototypes of varying fidelity to support both research and live, in-market experiments; accountability for clear and concise deliverables.
- Partner across director group to develop best practices and methodologies around core competencies (e.g., human-centered design, experience design, consumer research, prototyping & experimentation); actively teach to TMs to create consistency in approach and output.
- Bring future-facing perspective and deep industry expertise to influence and shape focus areas for exploration.
- Operationalize strategies across key stakeholder groups using proven ability to navigate and influence internal and external networks; ideally brings a strong horizontal internal Target network (but not required)
- Strong communication and facilitation skills with ability to present in a variety of settings to teams and senior leadership
- Hire, train and retain a multi-disciplinary team with diverse backgrounds and experiences. Establish development plans and manage performance by providing clear expectations and timely, consistent feedback and coaching.
About You:
- 10+ years working experience, with specific experiences in an experiment-driven / entrepreneurial environment helping launch new products, services, experiences or businesses.
- Strong executive project management skills. Must be able to provide structure, be proactive, navigate ambiguity, manage stakeholders, and coach creation of appropriate professional collateral; able to oscillate between "in the weeds" analyses and big picture thinking.
- Proven ability to navigate and influence internal and external networks; experience developing and leading stakeholder relationships through establishing lasting and impactful partnerships.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication, active listening, critical thinking, and presentation skills, with experience presenting to executive leadership and facilitating decision making.
- Direct leadership experience and expertise guiding teams and supporting the development of individual team members.
- Respects, appreciates and is curious about differences related to working with others; committed to developing an inclusive team.
- Humility, resilience, learners mind, thrives in creating structure from ambiguity.
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
Target will provide reasonable accommodations 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 Supply Chain Facility or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.
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