Sr. Food & Beverage Trend Researcher

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Target is an iconic brand a Fortune 50 company and one of Americas leading retailers.

At Target food is life. Soitsthe mission of our Food & Beverage organization to help our guests more easily discover the joy of food. We thrive on giving families new favorite ways to eat well and cook lesssimplyand affordably. With curated in-store experiences and a streamlined assortment designed to inspire and save time we understand the importance of food to our guests everyday lifefrom snack duty at soccer practice to important family gatherings and holidays. Join our centralized Food & Beverage team whereyoullpartner with people fromliterally everyarea of the business. Hereyoullhelp dream up new ways to offer our guests a reliably wonderful experience with the freshnessselectionand value they expect and deserve from Target.

Join a dynamic team of inventive and passionate engineers foodscientistsand sourcing managers in Food & Beverage Product Design & Sourcing at Target. We concept developsourceand deliver ourownedbrandfoods and beverages; everything from dry goodssnacksand beverages to candy freshfrozenand dairy. We research and engage with the food industry and the consumer marketplace to stay current on technical advances and get ahead of the trends. Join our dynamic and inventive team to influence the taste quality and value that decisively positions Target above the competition.

This team is passionate about the foods we develop to inspire and delight our Target your passion for food and discovery to bring key trend insights to our product development ability to keep your finger on the pulse of all things trend & innovation and synthesize data into insights will influence our product strategy and development pipeline. Bring your design skills curiosity and storytellingexpertiseto our talented team of creative culinary & scientific minds with visionary goals to lead the industry inbest-in-classfood& beverageproduct design and development.

As a Food & BeverageCulinary & TrendResearcher you will:

• Identifyand apply culinary trends and guest insights todevelop and writerecipes and package directions for owned brandfoods andassistin curation of trends to apply to digitalmarketingand social food stories.

• Research writetestand evaluate recipes record test resultstroubleshootandre-testas necessary.

• Partner with PD scientists and packagingcreative/production team to developoptimalproduct package prep directions that ensure guests will havea great experience. Write package directions in Target formatting. Proof and edit directions andadditionalculinary content on package proofs and for digital formats.

• Work with a variety of cross-functional roles to track multiple timetables providedeliverablesand problem-solveas necessary.

• Research and track food & beverageseasonal &categorytrends.Utilize a variety of techniques to bring insights & recommendations to life to influence merchants and product development.

• Utilize secondary research resources and insights partnerships to bring data and analytics to trend research. Integrate intuition& datafromvariedsources toidentifykey trends.

• Conduct deep-dive trend analyses into specific food & beverage categories providing actionable recommendations to business and development teams.