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Lead Item Data Specialist

Target senior full-time

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Description

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life.

As a Lead Item Data Specialist, you'll take the lead in completing item set-ups via partnership with merchant teams, internal stakeholders, and external vendor partners.

Your core responsibilities will include:

  • Driving data accuracy and ensuring consistency across categories
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams to validate and remediate data according to category strategy
  • Evaluating launch readiness through troubleshooting, remediating, and communicating with vendors and internal partners about launch blocks, system issues, and content generation communication
  • Training and assisting with item Center of Excellence trainings for new hires and refresher sessions
  • Being a Department/Division owner in terms of workload planning, prioritization, and process changes
  • Being a point person for communication between various Target locations and the other team members in the group

To be successful in this role, you'll need:

  • A four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • To be detail-oriented, with excellent organizational skills and ability to prioritize
  • Willingness to embrace ambiguity and remain flexible
  • Ability to multi-task with a high sense of urgency and initiative
  • Experience researching root issues
  • Strong interpersonal skills
  • Experience using Microsoft Office software such as Excel and Outlook

Skills

Required

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