Director Product Management - Properties

Job Id: R0000394389

About us:
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is

Team overview:

Target’s distinctive brand love is infused throughout its many physical locations by the Properties teams. We have a direct and positive impact on the real estate, design, construction and maintenance of our stores, distribution centers and headquarters locations. Are you ready to help strategically grow Target’s brand through leading-edge design, development, construction, and preservation? Can you effectively balance the efficiencies of a large-design build company with the unique challenges and innovative solutions required by individual sites? Then take your place on one of our Properties teams and help us make the most of Target’s physical footprint both in the U.S. and overseas.

About the Job:

Product Teams at Target Corporation are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable. 

This role specifically, is exciting in that it will have roles and responsibilities that align with both the Product Director and Product Ops Director job families.

As a Director Product Management - Properties, you will set the overall strategic vision for your product space and product team focusing on our Real Estate and Corporate Real Estate areas of excellence.

You are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, you will set the short and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams.  In addition to your product space, you will provide site leadership for Product and Analytics team members in your geo-location that support our Connected Program Management and Maintenance & Operations strategic priorities.

You will be responsible to elevate your collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams. You will drive product definition and discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time, as you lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties.  You will leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess the health and effectiveness of your products and related P&L impacts, and deliver recommendations to key stakeholders.

It will be critical that you possess an understanding of retail or similar area, relevant technologies and design principles in order to drive innovative and scalable solutions across multiple pyramids within Target.

As a Product Ops Director - Properties you will lean into delivering strategic alignment and portfolio health; striving to establish a cohesive vision for the entirety of the Properties Product portfolio, you will advocate for product analytics and co-create measurements of success combining business outcomes and portfolio heath metrics, you will help establish tools, routines and best methods; driving clarity and consistency around best practices and the education needed for ease of adoption, and you will have accountabilities for continued business enablement.

You will also help advance the global operating model throughout our org by identifying areas of opportunity for growth or optimization, and advancing business context and acumen across the entire global team.​

In support of this goal, you will promote the adoption of a consistent Product and Data & Analytics engagement model in an effort to enhance communication, efficiency, and solution quality, while enabling scalable

operations, data-driven decisions, and effective prioritization.

You will play a critical role demonstrating and advocating a culture of continuous improvement to strengthen best practices and routines. You will evaluate and leverage the latest technology to maximize operational

efficiencies and work closely with the Target Tech team on new opportunities for technology improvements.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of Product Management/ Product Leadership experience
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Understanding of continuous improvement methodologies and training concepts
• Ability to interpret, communicate and advocate company’s strategic direction
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally
• Analytical and strategic problem-solving skills
• Expert at working in the agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes
• Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships and building consensus across multiple enterprise-wide teams

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• Culture: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging