Product Ops Manager - Supply Chain Capability Enablement

Target • Minneapolis, MN

1d • $88,000 - $158,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Product Ops Manager is part of Target’s Supply Chain Capability Enablement Product Operations organization. The team drives awareness and strategic alignment between Supply Chain product and enterprise stakeholders, helping deliver product capabilities that support Enterprise and Supply Chain strategic priorities.

The role collaborates with product and operations teams to advance high-integrity commitments and improve strategic planning, portfolio health, and communication. It helps establish team routines grounded in product thinking and connected to OKRs, integrates intention maps across teams to represent cross-functional work, makes portfolio dependencies and risks visible, and tracks progress against Product KPIs. The manager also serves as a trusted advisor to product teams by bringing data and insights into conversations and meetings.

This position operates in a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement, with work performed both onsite at the assigned Target HQ Minnesota location and virtually, depending on role, team, and daily tasks. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• At least 4 years of product management, project management, or product operations experience within supply chain.
• Ability to bridge business and technical teams, with understanding of product principles and technology interactions.
• Experience working in an agile environment, such as with user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, and personas.
• Project or program management experience, including ability to manage one or multiple initiatives using project management tools and resources.
• Ability to self-organize, meet deadlines, and lead through ambiguity.
• Ability to communicate complex concepts in understandable terms across Operations, Process, Product, and Technology.
• Ability to influence peers and partners, find common ground, encourage consistency, facilitate conversations, and navigate competing interests.
• Critical thinking and proven problem-solving ability, including when data is not readily available.
• Curiosity, passion for learning, and interest in contributing to a growth culture.
• Comfort with ambiguity and change.
• Experience creating and delivering product tools and stakeholder materials.
• Foundational supply chain or operations knowledge.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with SmartSheet, Confluence, and Jira.

Responsibilities

• Manage and/or support advancement of high-integrity commitments by aligning product, process, and operations partners to objectives.
• Co-create and implement routines that improve transparency into planned work, identify synchronization gaps, track progress against plans, and navigate risks.
• Provide support, develop playbooks, and create organizational efficiencies by centralizing consistent tools and processes.
• Execute the product portfolio communication framework, providing visibility into progress and KPIs for technical investment; this may include preparing and communicating updates and analyzing and preparing data to inform strategy.
• Advocate for and support best practices in tools, processes, documentation, and communication across product teams and with stakeholders and leaders.
• Support integration of intention maps to understand interdependencies among teams.
• Bring data and insights into conversations and meetings as a trusted advisor to product teams.
• Drive awareness and strategic alignment among Supply Chain product and enterprise stakeholders to support delivery of capabilities aligned with Enterprise and Supply Chain priorities.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and dependents may have access to comprehensive health benefits and programs, 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.
• Financial, education, and well-being benefits may also be available.

What This Job Offers

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