Director Corporate Affairs Intelligence (Data & Insights)

Job Id: R0000442614

The pay range is $135,000.00 - $243,000.00

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Job Title: Director Corporate Affairs Intelligence (Data & Insights)

Classification: Exempt

Date: June 2026

About Us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

In Corporate Affairs, you’ll have the opportunity to play a critical role in enhancing and protecting Target’s brand and enabling growth across the business. With the broad range of complementary capabilities in Communications, Sustainability, Risk, Reputation Management, this team helps Target manage the needs and expectations of our team, guests, media, communities, elected officials, and other stakeholders.

This role will build out and lead the Corporate Affairs (CA) Intelligence function, establishing how Target uses Corporate Affairs data and insights to anticipate and plan, activate on opportunities, predict risk, inform decisions, and strengthen reputation. The Senior Director is responsible for creating an integrated intelligence capability that brings together signals across risk, reputation, stakeholders, issues, and foresight into clear, actionable insights. This leader will define and implement the vision, operating model, and roadmap for intelligence within Corporate Affairs, ensuring it is forward-looking, scalable, and deeply embedded in how the function and ecosystem operates.

The role requires deep expertise across a wide range of existing and emerging intelligence sources, including media, social, policy, stakeholder, and internal data. This leader will drive innovation in how signals are collected, connected, and translated into predictive, leading indicators that identify reputational risks and opportunities early. A critical part of the role is not just building capability, but driving adoption—ensuring intelligence tools, insights, and outputs are actively used across teams to shape strategy, planning, and execution.

This leader will build and connect a network of intelligence sources across the company, breaking down silos and ensuring consistent, high-quality inputs and insights. They will own and scale the information hub on the CA Reputation Command Center, driving ongoing adoption and ensuring it serves as a trusted, single source of truth for the CA ecosystem.

The role will play a critical role in establishing both short- and long-term intelligence operating models and represent Corporate Affairs in enterprise data and insights routines, ensuring CA is fully integrated into broader business intelligence and decision-making processes.

In addition, this role will lead the development of reputation audience activation plans informed by intelligence, ensuring insights translate into targeted, effective actions. The Senior Director will manage external intelligence agency relationships, setting clear expectations, driving accountability, and optimizing performance and value.

As a senior leader, this role requires strong communication and influence skills, with the ability to translate complex insights into clear, compelling narratives for senior leadership and cross-functional partners. The individual must be comfortable operating across both vertical and horizontal team structures, influencing without authority, and driving alignment across diverse stakeholders. This leader will play a critical role in shaping how Corporate Affairs uses intelligence to move from reactive to predictive, ensuring Target is prepared, informed, and positioned to lead.

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

About you:

• 10 to 15 plus years of experience leading process and/or systems initiatives
• Excellent written, oral and facilitation communication skills
• Experience conducting research and distilling complex subjects into easy to digest insights and recommendations
• Highly organized, able to work in a fast-paced environment and handle multiple issues and tasks at the same time; strong sense of urgency
• Experience participating on cross-functional teams and efforts in high-pressure situations and collaborating across departments
• Bias for action and strong ability to execute with minimal oversight: coordinate, prioritize, establish goals, ensure timelines are being met and use resources
• Demonstrated creative problem-solving skills with strong leadership skills
• Strong executive communication and stakeholder management skills

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 the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility

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