Sr. Buyer - Coffee & Tea

Target • Minneapolis, MN

2d • Hybrid

About The Position

Target Merchandising is focused on offering innovative, guest-inspiring products and delivering value, quality, and style through online and in-store shopping experiences. The Buying team works with vendors to select product assortments, localize offerings, calibrate market positioning, and manage brands across a wide range of SKUs.

The Senior Buyer for Coffee & Tea helps create omni-channel growth by planning profitable and locally relevant assortments informed by guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements, and competitors. The role influences and negotiates with vendors, identifies gaps and opportunities, and responds to business results by translating financial metrics and data into actionable strategies. The Senior Buyer leads cross-functional teams to drive category results and progress toward sales and margin goals. In partnership with product designers and/or category managers and vendors, the role guides product development and sourcing for the category. The position also supports promotional planning across channels in collaboration with Associate Buyers, Senior Merchandise Specialists, Planning, Site Merchandising, the Pricing and Promotion Center of Excellence, the Item Center of Excellence, and other partners.

The role operates in a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement, with work performed onsite at the assigned Target HQ Minnesota location and virtually according to role, team, and task needs. 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 merchandising experience.
• Strong strategic and analytical skills to grow a business.
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with cross-functional teams.
• Flexibility, resilience, and comfort working in constantly changing, ambiguous situations.
• Consumer-obsessed and industry-aware, with the ability to anticipate emerging trends and translate insights into a compelling assortment vision.
• Ability to build influential partnerships and drive alignment to deliver business results.

Responsibilities

• Plan profitable and locally relevant omni-channel assortments based on guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements, and competitive insights.
• Influence and negotiate with vendors to achieve results.
• Identify business gaps and opportunities.
• Translate financial metrics and data into actionable strategies, and respond flexibly to business results.
• Lead cross-functional teams to drive category results and progress toward sales and margin goals.
• Partner with product designers and/or category managers and vendors to guide product development and appropriate sourcing for the category.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to support promotional planning across channels.

Benefits

• Medical, vision, dental, and life insurance and other health benefits and programs for eligible team members and dependents.
• 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