Assortment Insights Sr Analyst

Target•Minneapolis, MN

23h•$73,000 - $132,000•Hybrid

About The Position

A role in Assortment Insights means you’ll act as an internal category insights manager for your buying team. You’ll leverage data and reporting to derive insights about the company, consumer, and competitors. You’ll then translate those insights to meaningful recommendations that will guide merchants in creating strategies that gain market share, improve guest relevancy, and enhance profitability. As an Assortment Insights Sr. Analyst, you’ll be part of creating a new capability for Target! You’ll collaborate with your Assortment Insights Leads and your partners in core merchandising to solve some of their biggest strategic opportunities from segmentation to emerging guest trends. You will assist your leads in centralizing insights into action for your merchant partners, collaborating with insights teams across the company. Your responsibilities will include contributing to pyramid and division-wide initiatives in addition to leading select category projects. Your knack for data-visualization and story-telling will be critical as you provide recommendations within business routines such as strategy planning, category transition analysis, and in-season optimization. Your influence on merchant strategies will be measured by key performance indicators such as market share and assortment productivity and profitability. You will also use an agile-mindset as you partner with the Merchandising Insights team who will build and provide tools and reporting that directly support your function. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

Four-year degree or equivalent experience
3+ years of Merchandising or Category Management experience
Strong strategic, financial, and analytical skills to be able to effectively navigate Target tools and technology
Can easily translate data from an array of sources (including market, guest, and financial) into insights and recommendations
Strong communication skills with ability to visualize and tell compelling stories with data
Strong collaboration skills to partner with cross-functional teams
Flexible, resilient and comfortable working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing

Responsibilities

Act as an internal category insights manager for your buying team.
Leverage data and reporting to derive insights about the company, consumer, and competitors.
Translate insights into meaningful recommendations to guide merchants in creating strategies that gain market share, improve guest relevancy, and enhance profitability.
Collaborate with Assortment Insights Leads and partners in core merchandising to solve strategic opportunities.
Assist leads in centralizing insights into action for merchant partners.
Collaborate with insights teams across the company.
Contribute to pyramid and division-wide initiatives.
Lead select category projects.
Provide recommendations within business routines such as strategy planning, category transition analysis, and in-season optimization.
Partner with the Merchandising Insights team to utilize tools and reporting that support your function.