Sr Product Manager - Merchandising Insights

Target•Minneapolis, MN

9d•$113,000 - $203,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Merchandising Insights is the engine working to create the most informed Merchandising team in retail. As a member of this cutting-edge, data-driven team, you will help lead efforts to advance our insights capabilities and routines across Merchandising. This team works cross-functionally across the organization, partnering with analytics, product, data science, engineering, insights capabilities, and enterprise segmentation teams to drive innovation in how our teams run their business. Our mission is to positively impact the Target guest experience by connecting teams with data, analytics, and insights to ensure we meet all critical guest needs and help Target become more relevant to our Guests. We are known for our ability to translate complex data into meaningful business outcomes and for fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. Our dynamic, passionate, and solution-oriented team comprises specialized professionals who bridge business, technology, and product teams to drive long-term value and business efficiencies. Product Teams at Target are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytics to insights products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology, discovery and design work. As a Senior Product Manager, Merchandising Insights, you will lead the development of scalable, intuitive, and high impact analytics and insights products that support assortment strategy across competitive market analysis, trends identification and Guest segmentation to geographic segmentation. You will own the competitive insights product vision and roadmap, defining and driving the analytics to insights product strategy based on business value, user adoption, and long-term sustainability. You will partner closely with business stakeholders to understand needs and translate them into clear product requirements while collaborating with internal consulting, analytics, engineering, data science, UX, and other cross functional teams to deliver an ecosystem of connected merchandising insights solutions. You will proactively seek feedback from leadership, consulting teams, and merchandising partners as a key input to backlog prioritization and roadmap decisions. You will leverage products to strengthen existing assortment insights routines while enabling new capabilities through prototypes and MVPs that test and validate emerging ideas and technologies. You will integrate internal and third-party data sources along with machine learning and GenAI capabilities to enhance product functionality and scalability. You will bring an unrelenting focus on intuitive, self-serve, and highly adopted analytics to insights tools that are easy to use, maintain, and evolve across merchandising teams. You will stay ahead of industry trends, assess new technologies and vendors, and represent the voice of the business in product development to ensure alignment with strategic goals. You will engage external data and insights vendor partners through POCs and RFP or RFI processes, holding them accountable for delivering high quality data, insights, and reporting solutions. You will support internal and external analytics work that contributes to product success, while coaching and mentoring Senior Consultants and helping prioritize their workload across initiatives. As a Senior Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will partner to develop a comprehensive product strategy, related roadmap, and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product. You will need to leverage your knowledge of solutions to product expertise, as well as customer feedback and establish other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. You will lead solutions to products in unison with cross-functional team inclusive of data analysts, other product managers, engineers, UX designers, data scientists and business partners to operationalize insights as a product. You will be the “voice of the product” to key stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met, and that the cross-functional teams are getting the direction and support that it needs to be successful. You will develop and actively understand the market, maintain a product roadmap and backlog outlining the customer themes, epics, and stories while prioritizing the backlog to focus on the highest impact work for your team and stakeholders. You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints, as well as inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster a sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles, and partner with product teams across the organization to help them achieve their goals while pursuing and completing yours. 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
6+ years of product management, analytics, insights, solutions experience
Deep retail or CPG merchandising industry experience
Experience working in an agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
Experience with market share, trends or signals, shopper behavioral data and clustering analysis
Proven track record building products, data and analytics solutions and prototypes that enable low-touch, high impact insights
Establish and grow relationships with key decision-makers within the cross-functional team, both in Target in India and Minneapolis to drive strategic business initiatives
Experience with Domo, PowerBI, Looker, Tableau & other Visualization tools (including homegrown platforms) and proven Data analytics + dashboard across multiple sources/metrics experience
Conceptual understanding of analytical techniques like Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Time-series models, Classification Techniques, etc.
Ability to lead bodies of work and influence without authority with cross-functional partners
Strategic and visionary thinker with effective, diplomatic and proactive leadership skills
Strong communication skills

Benefits

In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.
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.
Our Benefits
We care about and invest in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.
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.

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