Director Product Management - Product Operations Stores

Target • Minneapolis, MN

30d • $147,000 - $264,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Working at Target means helping all families discover the job of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here . A role in Strategy, Product and Innovation means creating industry leading intelligence solutions to drive best in class Omni channel guest experiences at the lowest cost to Target. You might focus on enabling the optimizing decision for GSCL / Stores Team members that improve guest experience, team member efficiency, and more . Super-powered first and foremost by our people, and supported by robust process and technology, we are a team of data-focused, curious minds who love to solve hard problems to enable a dynamic, fast paced Stores and Supply Chain network. Product Teams at Target Corporation are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable . Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product , technology and design work. The Director Product Management , P roduct O perations will be responsible for collaborating across multiple functional areas within our global supply chain and stores network to bring new capabilities to life. You will be r esponsible for improving the strategic alignment and product portfolio health tied to enterprise and Stores strategic functions . You will be r esponsible for driving cross-portfolio collaboration and leading delivery management across business processes , store operations, product, technology and data sciences . Deliverables will be focused on implementing capabilities that will deliver value tied to agreed-upon business outcomes. As a Product Operations Director , you will set the overall strategic vision for your P roduct O perations Portfolio Management and Delivery Management space , are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, will work with product teams to set , and ensure we are achieving our quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product ops managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product and Product Operations teams . You will be responsible to elevate your collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams. You will drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time, as you lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties . You will leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, and to deliver recommendations to key stakeholders. 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
• 10 + years of experience in product, project and program management , or store operations
• Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams
• Comfortable working across geographic regions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple programs and deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills and ability to maximize relationships
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally
• Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes

Responsibilities

• Portfolio Management & Delivery Management : Support End to End capabilities across Stores with a focus on Optimization and Fulfillment
• Develop strong connection with partners within Stores Product teams, Store Operations and Core Business teams to ensure effective program communication
• Work across product / engineering and core partners on sequencing recomm en dations and stakeholder communication
• Support transition of prioritized programs to other workstream leaders and ensure ongoing ownership and communication
• Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of the product, and support communication to the team in partnership with product teams
• Establish metrics and goals in partnership with product , building out key metrics to monitor
• Drive partnership with analytics to help achieve outcomes and measure key results to improve products
• Keep up with industry end-to-end retail trends

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: Director
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees