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About us:
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In support of Supply Chain, a role in Strategy, Product, and Innovation (SPI) means creating industry leading intelligence solutions to drive best in class omnichannel guest experiences at the lowest cost to Target. The TTOPS (Target Transportation Operating Systems) product team sits within SPI and is responsible for the delivery of product outcomes which enable the future transportation operating model. Transportation’s role in Supply Chain is critical as it enables getting inventory into our network (First Mile), moving inventory within our network (Middle Mile), and delivering goods to the Guest (Last Mile). We’re looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, risk-savvy and comfortable working in varying degrees of ambiguity
Product Teams at Target Corporation are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained, and highly reliable. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all products, technology, and design work.
The Product Director of Domestic Execution is accountable for the product portfolio that powers the movement of inventory across Target’s Global Supply Chain and Logistics (GSCL) network — both inbound and outbound. This role is central to enabling seamless execution by developing and optimizing the technology that supports data foundations, transit time accuracy, inbound scheduling, trailer content services, and yard management.
As a strategic and product leader, you will drive initiatives that deliver transformational improvements in supply chain visibility, accuracy, efficiency, and cost optimization. Your work will have a wide-reaching impact, supporting a diverse user base that includes suppliers, carriers, and internal Target teams, leveraging both third-party and custom-built applications.
As a Product Director, you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team, are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, will set and manage the product’s budget and financials, set the short- and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs).
You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams. You will be responsible to elevate your collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams.
You will drive product discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time, as you lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties. You will leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess the health and effectiveness of your products and related P&L impacts, and to deliver recommendations to key stakeholders.
It will be critical that you possess an understanding of retail or similar areas, relevant technologies and design principles in order to drive innovative and scalable solutions across multiple pyramids within Target.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
Four-year degree or equivalent experience
10+ years of experience in transportation operations leading product teams or collaborating with product teams
Experience leading and developing teams
Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally
Expert at working in the agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes
Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships across multiple enterprise-wide teams
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s 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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