Description
This internship with Target's Space & Presentation team starts in Summer 2027 and offers a starting hourly rate of $29.00.
The Space & Presentation team ensures that the right items are on the right shelves in the right stores, maximising sales and creating better store spaces and experiences for guests.
As a Space & Presentation Business Partner Intern, you will gain a realistic preview of a career translating merchandising strategies into clear, compelling in-store experiences. You will work with leaders and team members to learn how guest insights, business performance, assortment strategy, and space planning come together to shape product presentation across a large and diverse store portfolio.
Throughout the internship, you will receive training, coaching, and opportunities to learn from cross-functional partners. You will manage a defined project from discovery and analysis through recommendation and present your work and learnings to department leadership.
Responsibilities:
- Support analysis of space, assortment, sales, and guest insights to identify presentation opportunities.
- Assist with presentation development and other deliverables that translate merchandising strategies into executable store solutions that balance cost and operational feasibility.
- Evaluate business results and store feedback to help refine recommendations and improve the guest experience.
- Partner with Merchandising, Store Design, Marketing, Store Operations, Fixturing, Signing, Assets Protection, Pricing, and Store Communications to understand business needs and execution considerations.
- Help develop and present clear and compelling collateral that communicates strategies, findings, and recommendations to partners and leaders.
- Participate in team working sessions, milestone meetings, and project reviews; incorporate feedback to strengthen deliverables.
- Organize project details, files, and deliverables with accuracy, attention to detail, and timely follow-through.
- Manage a scoped internship project from discovery through final recommendation and present the outcome to leadership.
- Demonstrate curiosity, initiative, accountability, and openness to learning in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Requirements:
- Currently pursuing a bachelor's degree in Business, Retail Merchandising, Marketing, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, Design, Architecture, or a closely related field.
- Strong academic performance and demonstrated progress toward degree completion.
- Interest in retail, merchandising, visual presentation, space planning, store design, or analytics.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to draw insights from data and information.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and confidence presenting ideas to others.
- Strong planning, organization, and attention to detail, with the ability to manage priorities and meet deadlines.
- Ability to build relationships and contribute effectively with cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrated leadership, initiative, accountability, and sound decision-making.
- A development-focused mindset with curiosity, adaptability, and eagerness to learn.
- Comfort working through ambiguity in a collaborative, fast-paced environment.
Benefits: Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.