Lead Business Partner Foundation

Target • Minneapolis, MN

13d • $95,000 - $171,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Target Human Resources is known for building the best teams and infusing their work with Target’s distinctive retail brand through continuous experimentation, evolution, and innovation. With the opportunity to positively impact over 400,000 people worldwide across stores, distribution centers, and headquarters, you will be a strategic partner to both leaders and team members who enhance and nurture the Target guest experience. Our dynamic, passionate, and responsive team consists of specialized people-professionals from diverse disciplines. We operate behind the scenes to foster a progressive culture of value, respect, reward, and professional advancement.

The Target Foundation is seeking an experienced philanthropy manager to join its grantmaking team, focusing on the Twin Cities and Minnesota, the headquarters community. The Lead Business Partner-Foundation role is responsible for collaboratively planning, managing, and enhancing the Target Foundation’s giving strategy and grants portfolio. This includes building and deepening trusted relationships with community-serving nonprofit organizations, ensuring our grantmaking aligns with company Community & Stakeholder Engagement priorities, Corporate Affairs objectives, and other community and stakeholder-grounded principles and objectives.

The ideal candidate possesses a blend of deep expertise in philanthropy and community engagement, coupled with strong experience in social impact strategy, community-centered grantmaking, budget and portfolio management, stakeholder engagement, and program evaluation. They are adept at building community relationships and partnerships, collaborating with colleagues, influencing senior leaders, and are prepared to actively steward social impact investments into meaningful outcomes for communities and Target.

The Lead Business Partner-Foundation is a hybrid role based at Target headquarters in Minneapolis, MN. It balances regular in-person office attendance and participation in team and company events with frequent local travel within the Twin Cities to attend community partner meetings and visit program sites. This role also requires the ability to attend and represent Target at community partner celebrations and events, which may occasionally occur on evenings or weekends.

Requirements

• Four-year degree in a relevant field such as social sciences, public policy, economics, public health, education, nonprofit management, public affairs, communications, human resources, or international relations.
• Five or more years of non-profit, foundation, or general business experience.
• Strong knowledge of social community issues and their surrounding contexts.
• Proven ability to collaborate and strengthen relationships with a wide range of external partners (e.g., community-serving nonprofits, NGOs, foundations, issue or place-based coalitions, corporate foundations).
• Familiarity with key principles of trust-based philanthropy.
• Excellent oral, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
• Proven skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, analytical and creative solutions, along with an ability to connect dots and translate ideas into action.
• Demonstrated success working across sectors, including coalition building with non-profits, business, and government.
• Strong organizational, planning, and project management experience, including the ability to multi-task and manage competing demands and/or projects simultaneously.
• Ability to work independently as well as collaboratively.

Responsibilities

• Partner closely with other members of the Foundation, including the Foundation Director, additional Foundation Business Leads, and other internal colleagues stewarding community-facing initiatives in the Twin Cities.
• Plan and actively oversee grants; monitor, track, and assess grant progress and associated impacts; identify, document, and share key insights and learning.
• Proactively engage with and actively listen and learn from community partners on an ongoing basis through off-site community field visits, in-person meetings, and electronic communication.
• Manage grantee onboarding and serve as the initial contact for community partners; provide clear guidance and assistance to potential and current grantees.
• Conduct and share strategic assessments of funding strategies and proposals, including the review and critical examination of specific grant opportunities to evaluate their potential alignment with Foundation strategy and goals.
• Collaborate with the Community Engagement Operations team on operational processes and routines, including application design and data/reporting needs.
• Manage grant execution, processing, and vetting for identified non-profit/NGO partners.
• Provide input into portfolio strategies over time to achieve stated goals.
• Partner with the Foundation team and internal partners to advance measurement, evaluation, and learning goals and capabilities.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs for eligible team members and their dependents, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 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: Senior