Brand Experience Lead Beauty

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 Beauty is reimagining how guests discover learn about and experience beautyin our stores and online. As Beauty continues to evolve and elevate the guest experience we are building new capabilities that enhance team member expertise deepen brand storytelling and create differentiated experiences for guests.

The Brand Experience Lead will play a critical role in shaping and scaling the future of Beauty experience at Target. This role will serve as the connective tissue between Merchandising Stores Marketing Learning and Brand Partners to translate category and brand priorities into engaging scalable store experiences and field enablement strategies.

This lead will help define how Beauty brands show up within Target stores through team member education field activation experiential engagement and modern learning content. The role will both build strategy and operationalize execution creating new ways to educate inspire and empower store teams to better serve guests.

Reporting directly to the VP of Beauty Merchandising this role will help build a new operating model for experiential beauty retail at Target.

What Youll Own

Brand Experience & Guest Engagement

• Build differentiated in-store Beauty experiences that deepen guest engagement and bring category storytelling to life.
• Partner with merchandising leaders and brand partners to create experiential moments aligned to category strategies launches and seasonal priorities.
• Help define how Beauty Studio and prestige Beauty experiences evolve within Target stores.
• Test and scale new activation models that enhance the guest journey and elevate team member expertise.

Brand Partner Strategy & Governance

• Serve as the primary front door for brand partner experiential engagement across Beauty.
• Establish scalable frameworks standards and governance for how brand partners engage with Target stores team members and guests.
• Curate and prioritize brand participation opportunities aligned to merchandising and enterprise strategies.
• Partner with Marketing Events & Activations to coordinate field activation plans including store selection activation cadence event support gratis strategy and team member engagement models.
• Partner with external field organizations to ensure consistent elevated and guest-centric execution within stores.
• Balance brand partner opportunities with operational realities team member experience and guest experience standards.

Team Member Enablement & Learning Innovation

• Partner with Learning & Development to develop and scale modern learning strategies that elevate Beauty expertise across store teams.
• Translate merchandising and brand priorities into engaging educational content and experiences that improve guest interaction and selling confidence.
• Influence new learning formats including short-form video digital learning moments mobile-first content experiential education and field-supported training.
• Partner across Learning and Store Operations teams to ensure Beauty-specific education complements broader store priorities.
• Identify innovative ways to simplify and scale category and brand knowledge across varying store formats and team structures.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Operationalization

• Lead highly cross-functional workstreams across Merchandising Stores Operations Marketing Learning & Development Communications and external partners.
• Influence without direct authority to align priorities simplify execution and drive measurable outcomes.
• Build new operating models processes and governance structures that support scalable experiential retail execution.
• Identify opportunities to improve operational consistency while maintaining flexibility for innovation and testing.
• Build strategic vision while remaining closely connected to the Strategy Activations team and focusing onexecution details and field realities.

Success Measures

• Increased team member confidence and Beauty expertise
• Improved guest engagement and in-store experience
• Successful activation and adoption of experiential learning models
• Increased effectiveness and scalability of brand partner engagement
• Strong cross-functional partnership and operational execution
• Development of differentiated Beauty experiences that drive guest and business impact
• Creation of scalable learning and activation capabilities that influence future enterprise models

Critical Experiences

• Experience in field learning retail education experiential activation or store enablement
• Strong cross-functional leadership and influence skills
• Experience building new capabilities programs or operating models
• Experience partnering with external brands agencies or field organizations
• Strong understanding of retail environments and guest experience
• Beauty prestige or specialty retail experience preferred

Leadership Characteristics

• Strategic and innovative mindset with strong operational follow-through
• Comfortable building in ambiguity and creating new ways of working
• Strong relationship builder internally and externally
• Guest-obsessed and experience-oriented
• Strong communication and storytelling skills
• Bias toward action experimentation and continuous improvement
• Ability to balance strategic vision with execution detail

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core rolewill need to beperformedboth onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned toandvirtuallydepending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Benefits Eligibility

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