Job Description

Responsibilities

• Be the single point of contact for promo insights and financials supporting an assigned business (online & stores) and gain expertise on end to end pyramid and strategy context. This includes regular audits and research of pricing at Target and competitors, reviewing outliers in competitive price changes, and new item setups.
• Own creation of fact base on historical promo performance and financial positioning
• Create/modify recapping tools and reports to support weekly Promotion results and insight generation routines
• Own financial forecasting for the assigned businesses at both the category/weekly level as well as the individual promotion level for use in quarterly budgeting/roadmapping and Enterprise Forecast process
• Pair rigorous data analysis with built category context on overall competitiveness and effectiveness insights
• Drive, lead and deliver new tasks and innovation projects flawlessly with 100 % accuracy and timeliness
• Solve defined problems of high complexity and streamline/redefine processes using structured techniques or automation
• Drive stakeholder and organizational awareness to performance metrics by creating and publishing dashboards, performing deep dive analyses to provide insight into effectiveness of pricing strategies and operations.
• Collaborate with US-based Promo Planning teams to deliver overall category, competitiveness and performance goals
• Effectively manage best practice and team governance for your business/process and provide strategic solutions to key areas across the Promotions team. Create and maintain knowledge documentations, follow operational hygiene (Project management practices, quality assurance & time tracker)
• Develop and maintains working relationships with engineering teams, product owners, support teams, signing teams and all other teams related to pricing operations, to cohesively work towards achieving the business mission and goals
• Manage special projects and captainships designed to deliver critical priorities for Target or advance the total team’s performance.
• Effectively onboard, train and mentor new hires

Requirements

• MBA-Retail/Operations management with 0-2 years of experience
• Reports to Sr. Manager Promotion Insights
• Key business consultant to enterprise Price & Promotions COE, Business Unit Roundtable (Merchants, Planners, Inventory teams), Promotion Marketing, Site Merchandising, Product, Data Analytics and other support areas.