Description
We are seeking a Lead Strategist to join our Enterprise Strategy Development team. As a Lead Strategist, you will work directly with senior leaders across the organization to develop business and functional strategies, particularly those that support growth and competitive differentiation.
Your work will contribute to Target's annual Strategic Priorities, which are shared across the company and inform the efforts of thousands of team members worldwide every day.
Key responsibilities include:
- Developing 3-5 year time-horizon growth initiatives for the company
- Setting performance objectives for strategic consulting-like engagements
- Designing the approach for achieving these objectives in line with the total Strategy Management System, organizational context, and Enterprise Strategy Development team
- Creating the design and adjustment of an activity's strategy, decision infrastructure, best practice decision process, and documentation tools
- Securing commitment from internal partners, including key officer-level leaders, within and across pyramids to execute your work
- Owning the execution of portions of the activity as appropriate
Requirements:
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in the field of strategy
- Strong project management, cross-functional leadership, and collaboration skills
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills
- Innate curiosity and desire to learn with a strong inclination to drive for results in ambiguous spaces
- Ability to take the right partners at the right time, influence without authority, and to collaborate in a team environment
- Consulting experience preferred
- Advanced degree preferred
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 (Tues, Wed, & Thurs) the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team, and tasks require for that day.
Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.