Lead Strategist, Technology Strategy & Operations

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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 Tech creates and operates the tools technology science and systems that enable every part of Targets business and creates compelling and joyful experiences for our team members and guests. Our success is rooted in our diverse and talented team employing architectural discipline agile execution innovation and operational excellence. While we create new capabilities to drive engagement efficiency and growth we also prioritize investing in our technology ecosystem to keep it reliable performant and secure. We believe empowering our team to solve problems fostering continuous learning and innovation and building strong team connections enables us to deliver more faster and with higher quality. And with more joy.

As a Lead Strategist you will:

Help shape and accelerate the work that matters most across Targets Technology organization during a pivotal chapter for the enterprise. Sitting at the intersection of strategy execution and organizational effectiveness you will partner with senior Technology leaders to frame complex problems shape strategy and priorities and translate strategic direction into measurable action.

You will lead critical bodies of work spanning strategy and planning portfolio leadership and priority acceleration. You will bring clarity to ambiguity connect insights across Technology facilitate critical decisions and create the structure and alignment needed to move work forward. You will help Technology anticipate whats next while continuously strengthening how we plan prioritize make decisions and execute.

Strategic Thinking and Strategy Development

• Structure ambiguous strategic questions define the approach required to solve them and develop strategies and recommendations through research analysis synthesis and evaluation of options and tradeoffs.
• Partner across Technology and the enterprise to develop and evolve multi-year Technology priorities connecting enterprise strategy emerging opportunities and Technology capabilities to inform future direction.
• Translate strategic direction into clear priorities measurable outcomes and actionable plans.

Strategic Execution and Program Leadership

• Lead complex strategic initiatives from framing through execution establishing clear outcomes plans governance decision architecture and accountability.
• Create visibility across priorities by connecting progress risks dependencies and tradeoffs to drive decisions and maintain momentum.
• Build alignment and commitment across Technology and enterprise partners translating complex topics into clear narratives and facilitating decisions that move work forward.

Change Management

• Anticipate organizational implications of strategic initiatives and help leaders and teams navigate significant change.
• Develop stakeholder communication and adoption approaches that enable new strategies capabilities and ways of working to take hold.
• Apply insights and learnings to strengthen Technologys planning governance decision-making and operating model.

Strategic Perspective and Foresight

• Connect signals and insights across Technology the enterprise and external environment to identify emerging themes opportunities and risks.
• Translate emerging trends into future scenarios and implications for Technologys priorities and operating model.
• Anticipate downstream implications of strategic choices to help leaders make informed decisions today while preparing Technology for whats next.

Well support you along the way with onboarding as well as personal and career development to help you grow as a strong Lead Strategist. The exciting part of retail Its always changing!

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

About You

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience with 5 years of relevant experience in strategy consulting program leadership technology operations or related fields.
• Proven experience developing strategy and shaping strategic direction priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Strategic thinker and structured problem solver who can navigate ambiguity synthesize complex information evaluate tradeoffs and develop clear recommendations.
• Strong strategic operator who can translate direction into action mobilize cross-functional teams and drive complex work forward with clarity and accountability.
• Exceptional communicator storyteller and facilitator who can develop compelling narratives structure productive leader discussions influence decisions and build alignment across diverse stakeholders.
• Comfortable operating with pace ambiguity and changing priorities with the ability to move fluidly between big-picture strategic thinking and execution detail.
• Brings enterprise perspective intellectual curiosity and sound judgment with the ability to anticipate downstream implications and stay current on Technology AI business trends and emerging opportunities.
• Demonstrates high accountability adaptability and bias toward action.

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 role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending 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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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