# Director Counsel - Real Estate

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Minneapolis, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $168,000.00 - $303,000.00
**Category**: Legal
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Director - Real Estate Counsel to join our Law Department within Legal Affairs. As a Director - Real Estate Counsel, your work will include negotiating and drafting for a wide variety of real estate transactions, representing Target's interests externally, collaborating with experienced paralegal teams, providing general legal support, advice, and training to business partners, retaining and managing outside counsel, and establishing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

- Negotiation and drafting for a wide variety of real estate transactions in support of Target's extensive existing store portfolio and new store growth initiatives

- Representing Target's interests externally with developers, landlords, co-tenants, governmental authorities, and other third parties

- Collaborating closely with experienced paralegal team to drive efficient title review and closing processes for each real estate transaction

- Providing general legal support, advice, and training to business partners related to transaction structuring and strategy, contract disputes, process improvements, and other matters impacting Target's real estate portfolio

- Retaining and managing outside counsel

- Establishing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with a broad set of internal and external stakeholders

Requirements:

- J.D. degree from an accredited law school and admitted or eligible for admission to the Minnesota bar

- 5+ years of experience as a commercial real estate attorney with a strong emphasis on transactional work

- Excellent analysis and negotiation skills with the ability to balance legal risks with business imperatives

- Comfortable with ambiguity and excited about learning about new business priorities and programs

- Highly organized, with the ability to adapt, prioritize, and successfully manage multiple tasks, projects, and client relationships in response to changing or competing priorities

- Ability to establish rapport and collaborate effectively with a wide variety of stakeholders

- Strong writing skills and the ability to develop effective written and verbal communications and presentations for all levels of leadership

- Flexible, strong team player, with the ability to collaborate effectively with peers to allocate work and respond to business needs

- Proficiency with the Microsoft 365 suite of business applications and demonstrated interest in using generative AI tools

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
- commercial real estate
- transactional work
- negotiation
- analysis
- communication
- Microsoft 365

### Nice to have
- retail real estate
- generative AI tools

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