# Director, Inventory Management- Strategic Initiatives, Fresh Food

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $135,000.00 - $243,000.00
**Category**: Logistics & Supply Chain
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Director, Inventory Management- Strategic Initiatives, Fresh Food to join our team. As a Director, Inventory Management- Strategic Initiatives, Fresh Food, you will drive the Fresh Food pyramid modernization efforts for Inventory Management in partnership with leaders from planning, merchandising, and enterprise strategy team.

You will be a key driver on the enterprise acceleration work across many workstreams to ensure the new process and strategy will drive optimal inventory strategy and champion financial discipline and routines.

You will be an influential leader across the organization and be skilled at influencing upward to senior leaders to champion change. Enterprise acceleration workstreams include, but are not limited to: Creating the strategic vision for future Fresh Food inventory management technology through collaboration with business and technology teams, leading business/technical discovery for new technology, and shepherding technology creation from ideation through end-user implementation and continuous improvement, partnering with broader financial technology teams to ensure integration of both technology and business processes.

You will be the voice of the business in multiple system implementations to support Target’s growth and exceeding guests’ expectations. You will engage with cross functional teams throughout the enterprise to balance financial and guest-facing goals through partnerships and collaboration.

You will be a conduit to the Global Inventory Management team on Enterprise Acceleration efforts in Fresh Food as it scales as well as be an influential leader within the Global Inventory Management leader group and drive broader inventory management strategies.

You will partner with the IM Operations and Food Inventory Management leadership teams in support of broader initiatives that will support guest reliability, sales and profit.

**Responsibilities:**

- Drive the Fresh Food pyramid modernization efforts for Inventory Management in partnership with leaders from planning, merchandising, and enterprise strategy team.

- Be a key driver on the enterprise acceleration work across many workstreams to ensure the new process and strategy will drive optimal inventory strategy and champion financial discipline and routines.

- Be an influential leader across the organization and be skilled at influencing upward to senior leaders to champion change.

- Be the voice of the business in multiple system implementations to support Target’s growth and exceeding guests’ expectations.

- Be a conduit to the Global Inventory Management team on Enterprise Acceleration efforts in Fresh Food as it scales as well as be an influential leader within the Global Inventory Management leader group and drive broader inventory management strategies.

- Partner with the IM Operations and Food Inventory Management leadership teams in support of broader initiatives that will support guest reliability, sales and profit.

**Requirements:**

- 4 year degree or equivalent experience, Masters level degree preferred

- 8+ years of relevant experience in Inventory Management, Supply Chain, Logistics, preferably in supporting technology

- Knowledge of supply chain and inventory management fundamentals, systems, and practical applications.

- Demonstrated and strong skill in communication, storytelling and ability to influence senior leaders.

- Financial and business acumen, ability to manage risk.

- Analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to derive actionable insights and forward-thinking recommendations.

- Ability to operate in a rapidly changing work and industry environment and manage complex priorities and situations with degrees of variation and uncertainty.

- Ability to tie back to goals and objectives for the team, reviewing competing deliverables and gather inputs needed to make decisions around the importance or urgency of a situation/project/work

- Take an enterprise mindset that understands the impact of decisions on own business and partner organizations.

- Ability to act with independence in a complex business model. Organizational savviness to create and move change throughout the enterprise.

- Ability to bring multiple opinions together and find consensus

- Lead efforts to drive commitment to belonging

## Skills

### Required
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain
- Logistics
- Communication
- Storytelling
- Influencing
- Financial Acumen
- Business Acumen
- Analytical Skills
- Problem-Solving Skills

### Nice to have
- Masters level degree
- Technology

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