Director Portfolio Management- Stores (Western US)

Target • Mission Viejo, CA

1d • $135,000 - $243,000

About The Position

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. Right on pace with Target’s distinctive retail brand, Target Store Operations is continuing to transform the way it operates. Here, your work directly supports the store mission to be the guest favorite through successfully developing and communicating the processes for operations, style and experience, new structures, new operating models and new technology, and utilizing workforce management activities for our 1,800 locations nationwide. Store Operations manages and enhances the informational resources for researching and resolving operational issues, while guiding and communicating with the field team and leaders who use them.

Are you a customer service enthusiast who can actively listen to many points of view and then visualize how they’ll perform when operationalized in a store? Are you happy to partner with leaders as well as field team members who are often the experts on how well a process is working? Can you creatively envision more efficient processes and how they’ll deliver a better experience for guests and team members? Do you possess the innovative mindset to question the status quo, and the confidence to work under varying degrees of ambiguity and well-informed experimentation? Then you’ll have success on one of our dynamic teams.

A role with Strategic Planning and Operations will entail working with cross-functional partners to help create and manage the strategy portfolio for Store Operations. You’ll work to deliver plans designed to help Field Leaders and key HQ partners bring a modernized guest experience to life. You’ll work across Store Operations and cross-functional partners in Stores and across HQ to understand priorities and delivery timelines, and use your talents and experience to apply company-established practices and processes to deliver work under general direction. You will provide support for Store Operations strategy and planning processes.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 6+ years of experience in consulting, portfolio management, or strategy development
• Experience influencing key business partners, including senior leadership
• Project and process management/ownership experience
• Experience operating in an ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment
• Ability to work independently with limited direction and in high intensity situations with tight deadlines
• Ability to challenge upward and challenge the status quo, to resolve problems that are without clear precedent, and to influence and negotiate effectively
• Experience building and maintaining cross-functional working relationships
• Proficient in Microsoft Office

Responsibilities

• Work directly with an assigned senior leadership team to support with strategy development and portfolio management process; facilitate organizational alignment on assigned senior leader’s portfolio of projects and identify interdependencies between projects
• Facilitate the annual and quarterly strategy process in partnership with senior leaders through tactics such as team offsite planning and facilitation, and drive the creation and implementation of individualized team routines connected to strategy development.
• Consult on key business strategies, provide expertise on how to articulate a strategy and/or external benchmarking, and collaborate with planning teams across the organization to understand the enterprise priorities and when they deliver.
• Engage with senior leaders to share insights of overall portfolio health, sharing insights on projects being worked on and implemented such as impacts, collisions, and critical interdependencies.
• Lead identification, prioritization, and progress tracking for portfolio of enterprise strategic initiatives
• Develop, leverage, and share portfolio and project management tools to deliver organization and planning across teams.
• Work across teams to drive timing and alignment of strategic deliverables.
• Partner with business teams to drive accountability to portfolio performance, understand adjustments to projects (timing, resourcing, etc.), and help teams measure progress and key outcomes gained

Benefits

• Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.
• Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.
• Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

What This Job Offers

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