# Sr Analyst on Target's Market Research and Analysis team

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Minneapolis, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Sr Analyst to join our Market Research and Analysis team. As a Sr Analyst, you will assist and support market analysis, strategic planning, and geospatial analysis and location research for Target's new and existing store capital investment programs.

You will partner closely across the Market Research, Finance, Properties-Real Estate, Operations, Stores, and Merchandising teams to develop and communicate holistic market strategy, drawing on geographic, store, and market insights.

Key responsibilities include:

- Influencing new store location strategy and existing store reinvestment decisions geared towards driving market-based decision making

- Owning store sales forecasting for locations across your unique set of markets, driving for accuracy while evaluating the importance of store location attributes

- Interpreting strategic tradeoffs, competitive positioning, site dynamics, market trends, demographic and economic indicators

- Applying geospatial analysis to support market and location decisions, including the evaluation of trade areas, market characteristics, competitive positioning, and other location-based factors

- Leveraging excellent communication skills for presentations to Leadership across MRA, Properties, and FP&A

- Contributing ideas to improve research methodologies, GIS systems, databases, demographics, and analytical tools

Requirements:

- B.A/B.S or equivalent in business, geography, urban planning, or related field

- 4-6 years relevant business experience

- Strong analytical, decision-making, project management, and organizational skills

- Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills, with the ability to use data to evaluate market and location questions and translate findings into actionable recommendations

- Superior leadership skills with enthusiasm, initiative, curiosity, and a passion for results

- Experience with data analytics and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau, Power BI, Alteryx) and geographic information systems (e.g., ESRI, MapInfo, QGIS) preferred

- Experience applying GIS and geospatial analysis to business or market questions, including trade area analysis and other location-based analytical workflows preferred

- Experience with SQL and working with geographic and other business data to support market and location analysis preferred

- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills

- 10-20% Travel

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- analytical skills
- decision-making skills
- project management skills
- organizational skills
- quantitative skills
- problem-solving skills
- leadership skills
- communication skills

### Nice to have
- data analytics
- visualization tools
- geographic information systems
- GIS
- geospatial analysis
- SQL

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