Sr Data Analyst
Minneapolis, MN - USA
Job Summary
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and 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 benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at 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.
Target Assets Protection
One of the worlds leading and most recognized brands requires an industry-leading Asset Protection team who ensures the safety and security of our team guests store and merchandise. We use preventive techniques to maintain a comfortable safe and secure environment whether within our stores our headquarters or our distribution centers. Youll promote a culture of mindfulness around safety and security while preventing and responding to incidents that fall within our many areas of expertise.
Assets Protection Data Insights team rapidly develops and deploys new innovations to improve existing processes and enable new capabilities that drive productivity create a great Guest and Team Member experience. We are looking for exceptional people who are proactive creative independent innovative practical and comfortable with ambiguity. Are you a critical thinker who seeks the root cause and can analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively Are you a creative problem-solver who simplifies problems quickly identifies solutions and can build and execute effective plans to address If so you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.
The Assets Protection Data Insights team leverages business experience thought leadership and analytical acumen to elevate problem solving for Stores & Supply Chain. The team provides an ideal opportunity to work within a highly collaborative team managing complex solutions. A role on our team means being central to the innovation within Target Stores. Youll be working in a dynamic and challenging environment where new technologies are deployed constantly and processes are evolving quickly as these operations mature. Here youll leverage data statistics visualizations and predictions to create actionable insights that deliver value across all Target functions. Our savvy reporting and analytics pros use market-leading tools and data automation to make a positive impact thats felt across the business.
Primary Function:
As a Sr. Data Analyst youll be part of a team of analysts supporting Target Stores through active exploration of data experimentation and advanced analytics. You will apply statistical methods A/B testing frameworks and machine learning techniques to generate actionable business insightsenabling the development of scalable metrics predictive models and decision tools. A critical part of your role is designing and evaluating experiments (e.g. A/B and multivariate tests) establishing measurement strategies validating causal impact and translating results into clear recommendations for business partners.
You will share insights through structured communication with end users gather feedback and iterate through test-and-learn cycles in partnership with stakeholders. Along the way you will apply best practices in analytics and ML development by delivering well-documented reproducible solutions (including model documentation assumptions and performance monitoring) and continuously upskilling on emerging tools and technologies with a continuous improvement addition you will actively participate in team meetings and contribute to agile ceremonies supporting rapid delivery and continuous refinement of analytical products.
Principal Duties and Responsibilities:
Perform advanced statistical analysis
Lead A/B testing and experimentation: hypothesis design measurement analysis decisioning.
Build predictive models that forecast outcomes and optimize store/business performance.
Apply causal inference methods when randomized tests arent possible.
Ensure statistical rigor data quality peer review and reproducible workflows.
Evaluate and monitor model performance & stability
Partner with stakeholders to operationalize learnings and scale proven improvements.
Contribute to agile ceremonies and continuous improvement of analytics practices.
About you:
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 3 year as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience
- Advanced SQL experience writing complex queries
- Competent and experienced in leveraging Python and R for analytical workflows
- Solid problem solving analytical skills data curiosity data mining Data creation and consolidation
- Support conclusions with a clear understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics basic inferential statistics and data visualizations
- Willingness to ask questions about business objectives and the measurement needs for a project workstream and be able to measure objectives & key results
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams and translate ideas between them
- Knowledge of AB Testing methods time series Forecasting models including statistical analysis
- Experience in analytics tools such as: SQL Excel Hive Spark Python R Power BI and/or equivalent technologies
Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 05/14/2026Required Experience:
Senior IC
About Company
1234 employees
Target Corporation is an American retail corporation. The eighth-largest retailer in the United States, it is a component of the S&P 500 Index.