Director, Enterprise Sustainability Strategic Initiatives

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Classification: Exempt

Date: April 2026

About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

At Target we are committed to responsible corporate citizenship ethical business practices environmental stewardship and growth that creates value for all stakeholders. We offer opportunities to grow your career to learn and lead and to make meaningful contributions in support of Targets mission and business priorities.

The Enterprise Sustainability team supports Targets long-term success by integrating environmental and social considerations into enterprise strategy decision-making and execution. The team partners across the company to align sustainability priorities with business objectives financial rigor and external expectations.

Bring your passion and expertise to help Target leverage its size and scale for broader good.

The Director Enterprise Sustainability Strategic Initiatives is an enterprise-facing leader responsible for shaping and advancing Targets sustainability strategy in partnership with leaders across the company and key external stakeholders while leading a team to drive execution of strategic initiatives.

Rooted in deep sustainability expertise this role translates complex environmental and social priorities into clear actionable business addition to shaping enterprise sustainability strategy the role is deployed across priority domains such as circularity resilience and sustainable innovation and other cross-functional efforts supporting teams in developing strong strategic framing and robust business cases that maximize business value and sustainability impact.

The role leads complex cross-functional initiatives framing strategic options and tradeoffs while aligning stakeholders toward informed timely executive decisions. Working closely with the Vice President of Enterprise Sustainability the Enterprise Sustainability leadership team and partners across the enterprise this role advances key priorities and elevates strategic rigor through stronger enterprise thinking and integration.

This position requires deep subject matter expertise in sustainability combined with strong business acumen to navigate complex issues and translate them into clear business-relevant strategies. Other responsibilities include:

• Shaping and advancing Targets enterprise sustainability strategy ensuring alignment with business priorities financial considerations and critical external stakeholder expectations

• Translating external sustainability policy and market trends into forward-looking strategic insight surfacing risks opportunities and implications for enterprise decision-making and long-term value creation

• Framing ambiguous or emerging sustainability issues define problem statements assess options and tradeoffs and drive alignment toward decisions that balance ambition financial realities and execution pathways

• Leading high-priority cross-cutting strategic initiatives that span multiple sustainability priorities and business functions including circularity resilience sustainable innovation and others as required

• Partnering with Corporate Strategy Finance and business teams to embed sustainability into enterprise strategy planning and investment decisions driving clarity focus and enterprise alignment across initiatives

• Translating sustainability priorities into clear business cases and strategic narratives that enable informed tradeoffs and investment decisions

• Preparing executive and Board-ready materials that clearly articulate sustainability strategy implications and recommended paths forward

• Elevating the strategic capability of the Enterprise Sustainability team by strengthening problem definition enterprise framing and executive readiness across workstreams

• Leading through influence across a complex matrixed organization aligning stakeholders and advancing initiatives without direct authority

Core Responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to the business needs.

About You:

• Bachelors degree (4 years) or equivalent professional experience; MBA preferred

• 10 years of professional experience in sustainability enterprise strategy management consulting or related strategic roles

• Background in consulting enterprise strategy transformation or internal advisory roles preferred

• Deep hands-on expertise across environmental and social sustainability topics including climate responsible sourcing ESG and stakeholder expectations with demonstrated experience applying this expertise in strategic or business contexts

• Experience leading or advising on circularity sustainable product and materials strategies or business model innovation in a commercial context is strongly preferred

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional strategic initiatives in a large matrixed organization

• Strong ability to synthesize complexity and ambiguity into clear executive-level insights options and recommendation

• Exceptional written verbal and interpersonal communication skills including experience preparing executive- and Board-ready materials

• Strong organizational awareness and proven ability to influence without formal authority across senior stakeholders

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with comfort operating in ambiguous fast-evolving environments

• High degree of judgment discretion and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information

• Experience in retail consumer goods or similarly complex operating environments preferred

Benefits Eligibility

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