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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.

Our stores are at the heart of Target — delivering an easy, inspiring, and friendly shopping experience powered by consistent operations and high-performing, engaged teams. Our Stores Experience Activation Plan is achieved through Strategic Initiatives, Key Enablers, and Foundational Work that empower Store Directors and teams with the capabilities, technology, and support needed to simplify operations, drive performance, and elevate guest experience every day.

About the Role:

As a Senior Business Partner in Store Operations, you will use your talents and experience to work independently while both supporting and leading projects that develop new capabilities and improve the systems, processes, and decision logic used to move inventory into stores. You will play a critical role in bringing the Stores Experience Activation Plan to life by ensuring store needs remain central to enterprise decisions about inventory, replenishment, and operational capability development.

You will support end to end initiatives that drive operational improvement in stores via updated processes, operational efficiencies, and elevated team member and guest experience. In order to accomplish this, you will collect data, insights and research to make a team strategy that is cohesive with the enterprise needs. You will work with clients in a proactive and supportive fashion while taking ownership of business challenges and solutions. You will represent Store Operations in enterprise cross-pyramid initiatives and ensure that store impact is communicated and understood. You will determine the approach to the work and be directed based on key objective check-ins.

Core responsibilities of this job 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
• 4-6 years of work experience in an operations environment preferably in retail
• Ability to establish and maintain cross-functional working relationships
• Ability to manage projects effectively and work in an ambiguous environment
• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Developing skills to leverage AI/GenAI-enabled workflows to accelerate opportunity identification, prioritization, root-cause analysis, and operational responsiveness. 
• Stores experience at Target and/or inventory management operational strategy experience preferred

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.

Benefits Eligibility

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.