Director Enterprise Risk - Risk Insights & Monitoring

Target • Minneapolis, MN

1d • $135,000 - $243,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. To match the signature style and passion of Target's distinctive and beloved retail brand, Target Legal Affairs is a dynamic and deeply knowledgeable team of legal, risk and compliance professionals, each with valuable expertise from several disciplines. Whether specializing in government affairs, policy, risk management, regulatory compliance, ethics, security, employee relations or other risk-based disciplines, this team advocates for Target and its business plans and works across the entire company to provide internal clients with cohesive guidance. We are committed to being internal experts on key issues that affect Target's ability to productively, ethically and securely do business. We focus on defining, investigating, anticipating and mitigating risk in all its forms. We help protect Target and its subsidiaries by applying our comprehensive understanding and interpretation of the risks and requirements that govern our stores, supply chain, distribution centers and corporate locations. Here, you'll enjoy working autonomously with a healthy work-life balance. Your passion for learning the business, building relationships with senior leaders and key business partners, and translating complex risk information into practical guidance will be key to tackling the ever-changing risk and governance challenges we face in a dynamic and fast-paced retail landscape. A role in Enterprise Risk Management means you will help protect Target by identifying, assessing and managing a portfolio of top strategic, financial, operational, compliance, reputational and event-based risks the company faces. You will also play a key role in facilitating the company's holistic Enterprise Risk Management program, strengthening the company's risk acumen and providing strategic direction to company leaders on the most important risks. This role is a peer leader responsible for managing programmatic application and content development on high-level, visible focus areas within Enterprise Risk Management, with a specific focus on risk insights, monitoring routines, risk posture reporting and data-enabled decision support. The role will engage a wide range of leaders and teams, training and advising them on new processes and program evolution related to risk management, monitoring, reporting and escalation. The role will be required to engage both internally and externally, representing the Enterprise Risk Management team in a variety of settings, including benchmarking, cross-functional working sessions and leadership routines. The role must have strong communication, facilitation, analytical and program management skills, and be comfortable with minimal direction and in ambiguous settings.

Requirements

• BS/BA in a business-related field or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Minimum of 7-10 years directly related experience in enterprise risk management, compliance, audit, controls, governance, data-enabled reporting or a related field.
• Excellent written, oral and facilitation communication skills, with strong executive presence and comfort presenting information to large groups across multiple levels.
• Highly organized, action-oriented and able to work in ambiguous environments with minimal direction around new areas of work.
• Ability to lead, drive and implement multiple initiatives independently and at the same time with strong accuracy and completeness.
• Experience leading cross-functional efforts and collaborating across numerous partners, departments and teams to drive results.
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills and ability to identify and connect data, risk signals and business context, and then turn insights into action.
• Experience developing or improving risk monitoring routines, KRI/KPI frameworks, control performance measures, risk dashboards or leadership reporting mechanisms.
• Ability to translate complex risk, control, findings, testing and data concepts into practical recommendations and decision-ready materials for senior leaders.
• Experience partnering with technology, data, RiskCloud/GRC or reporting teams to define business requirements, data quality expectations, dashboard needs or workflow improvements.
• Ability to influence others within and outside the job function regarding risk management practices, monitoring routines, reporting expectations and escalation processes.

Nice To Haves

• Risk management, compliance, audit, data analytics or project/program management certification.
• Experience in retail or corporate environment working in a matrixed operation.
• Experience with RiskCloud, GRC platforms, Power BI, Tableau or comparable reporting, workflow or dashboard tools.
• Experience with enterprise risk, compliance management systems, control frameworks, findings analysis or integrated assurance practices.
• Established acumen with genAI tools, analytics and new ways of working that can improve risk visibility, reporting and decision support.

Responsibilities

• Initiate and sustain productive engagement and relationships with senior leaders (Sr. Director and above) on areas of enterprise risk across business functions and with key enterprise planning partners.
• Maintain comprehensive portfolio inputs for Target's enterprise risks by identifying, gathering, aggregating, analyzing and translating information from a broad base of external and internal sources across the business, including senior leaders, risk owners, compliance partners, assurance partners and monitoring data sources.
• Analyze the enterprise risk portfolio to identify trends, interdependencies, impacts, gaps, escalation triggers and other relationships within the portfolio and between the portfolio and enterprise strategic and financial plans.
• Develop and oversee the program maturity roadmap for risk insights and monitoring, and direct risk lifecycle activities related to identifying, assessing and prioritizing, treating, monitoring and testing enterprise risks.
• Lead implementation and adoption of consistent risk monitoring practices across business functions and second- and third-line partners, including metric definition, tolerance thresholds, control performance indicators, monitoring routines and leadership reporting inputs.
• Provide risk-based planning and decision support to business functions and leaders (Sr. Director and above), including the development and facilitation of workshops, risk posture discussions and monitoring readouts.
• Work closely with Risk leadership to design and continuously recommend improvements to the processes and mechanisms for discussing, reporting and making decisions on risk, including risk posture summaries, dashboards, escalation triggers and materials used to enable Risk Leadership interaction with senior leadership and the Board of Directors.
• Partner with RiskCloud, data, technology and reporting partners to recommend data definitions, data quality expectations, traceability needs, workflow requirements and dashboard requirements that support effective risk monitoring and reporting.
• Partner with Internal Audit, ERM, Compliance, Testing & Assurance and External Risk Sensing partners to ensure monitoring outputs inform risk assessment cycles, testing priorities, assurance coverage, findings analysis, scenario planning and governance escalation.
• Use data, dashboards, findings, testing results, external signals and business context to translate complex risk information into clear, concise and actionable insights for leaders.
• Ensure the core risk management components, including established risk management procedures of Target, are carried out and continuously improved in alignment with Enterprise Risk Management priorities.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director