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Manager Global Supply Planning Operations
Job Id: R0000453112
The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. 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. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
About Us
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America’s leading retailers. At
the heart of our success is our Owned Brand organization — a dynamic team that designs,
develops, and sources the products our guests love. From concept to creation to
manufacturing, we infuse trend, quality, and innovation into everything we do, building
brands that surprise and delight millions of consumers.
Global Supply Planning (GSP) designs and activates upstream supply and inventory
strategies for Owned Brands, connecting Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, and
production to enable reliable and flexible supply, faster reaction, and sustainable growth
for Target. The centralized GSP Operations team provides the project leadership,
processes, data, reporting, and operating infrastructure that enable the function to execute
priorities effectively and operate with enterprise alignment.
About the Role
As a Manager, Global Supply Planning Operations, you will lead cross-functional projects
and initiatives that advance GSP’s strategic and operational priorities. You will be
responsible for translating business objectives into structured project plans, mobilizing
cross-functional teams, driving execution, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring
initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.
You will serve as a project leader and integrator, bringing together partners across Global
Supply Planning, Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, Technology, and other
teams to solve complex operational challenges. You will establish clear scope, milestones,
roles, governance, and decision-making mechanisms while creating visibility to progress
and escalating issues when needed.
The role combines project leadership with process improvement and analytical
problem solving. You will use data and reporting to identify opportunities, measure
outcomes, and support decisions, while also helping strengthen GSP's operating routines,
processes, and tools. You will lead multiple workstreams and initiatives simultaneously
and influence teams without formal authority.
Core Responsibilities
Project & Program Management: Lead cross-functional projects and workstreams from
definition through implementation. Translate business objectives into clear scope,
deliverables, milestones, workplans, ownership, and success measures. Maintain
momentum and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company, and one of America’s leading retailers. At
the heart of our success is our Owned Brand organization — a dynamic team that designs,
develops, and sources the products our guests love. From concept to creation to
manufacturing, we infuse trend, quality, and innovation into everything we do, building
brands that surprise and delight millions of consumers.
Global Supply Planning (GSP) designs and activates upstream supply and inventory
strategies for Owned Brands, connecting Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, and
production to enable reliable and flexible supply, faster reaction, and sustainable growth
for Target. The centralized GSP Operations team provides the project leadership,
processes, data, reporting, and operating infrastructure that enable the function to execute
priorities effectively and operate with enterprise alignment.
About the Role
As a Manager, Global Supply Planning Operations, you will lead cross-functional projects
and initiatives that advance GSP’s strategic and operational priorities. You will be
responsible for translating business objectives into structured project plans, mobilizing
cross-functional teams, driving execution, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring
initiatives deliver measurable outcomes.
You will serve as a project leader and integrator, bringing together partners across Global
Supply Planning, Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, Technology, and other
teams to solve complex operational challenges. You will establish clear scope, milestones,
roles, governance, and decision-making mechanisms while creating visibility to progress
and escalating issues when needed.
The role combines project leadership with process improvement and analytical
problem solving. You will use data and reporting to identify opportunities, measure
outcomes, and support decisions, while also helping strengthen GSP's operating routines,
processes, and tools. You will lead multiple workstreams and initiatives simultaneously
and influence teams without formal authority.
Core Responsibilities
Project & Program Management: Lead cross-functional projects and workstreams from
definition through implementation. Translate business objectives into clear scope,
deliverables, milestones, workplans, ownership, and success measures. Maintain
momentum and accountability throughout the project lifecycle.
Cross-Functional Team Leadership: Mobilize and lead project teams across GSP,
Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, Technology, Data, and other partner
organizations. Establish clear roles and working norms, facilitate productive discussions,
and align teams around common outcomes.
Project Governance & Execution: Establish effective project governance, including
working-team routines, leadership updates, decision forums, action tracking, and
escalation paths. Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and changes
in scope.
Stakeholder Management & Communication: Build strong relationships with business
partners and leaders across functions and geographies. Develop clear project
communications, executive updates, recommendations, and decision materials. Influence
without formal authority and navigate differing priorities to drive alignment.
Process & Operating Model Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify and
standardize GSP processes and ways of working. Lead development and implementation
of scalable processes, operating routines, SOPs, playbooks, and governance mechanisms
that improve execution across the organization.
Change & Implementation: Partner with stakeholders to move solutions from design into
execution. Develop implementation approaches, readiness plans, communications,
documentation, and adoption mechanisms to ensure changes are successfully embedded
into day-to-day operations.
Problem Solving & Decision Support: Structure ambiguous business problems, identify
root causes, evaluate alternatives, and facilitate decisions. Bring together business
context, stakeholder perspectives, and quantitative insights to develop practical
recommendations.
Data & Analytics: Use data and analytics to inform project priorities, evaluate
opportunities, establish baselines, and measure business outcomes. Partner with
analytics and technology teams to define reporting and measurement requirements and
ensure appropriate visibility to performance.
Continuous Improvement: Identify recurring operational pain points and lead sustainable
solutions that reduce manual effort, clarify ownership, improve execution, and increase
organizational effectiveness.
Planning & Inventory Management, Sourcing, Technology, Data, and other partner
organizations. Establish clear roles and working norms, facilitate productive discussions,
and align teams around common outcomes.
Project Governance & Execution: Establish effective project governance, including
working-team routines, leadership updates, decision forums, action tracking, and
escalation paths. Proactively manage risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and changes
in scope.
Stakeholder Management & Communication: Build strong relationships with business
partners and leaders across functions and geographies. Develop clear project
communications, executive updates, recommendations, and decision materials. Influence
without formal authority and navigate differing priorities to drive alignment.
Process & Operating Model Improvement: Identify opportunities to simplify and
standardize GSP processes and ways of working. Lead development and implementation
of scalable processes, operating routines, SOPs, playbooks, and governance mechanisms
that improve execution across the organization.
Change & Implementation: Partner with stakeholders to move solutions from design into
execution. Develop implementation approaches, readiness plans, communications,
documentation, and adoption mechanisms to ensure changes are successfully embedded
into day-to-day operations.
Problem Solving & Decision Support: Structure ambiguous business problems, identify
root causes, evaluate alternatives, and facilitate decisions. Bring together business
context, stakeholder perspectives, and quantitative insights to develop practical
recommendations.
Data & Analytics: Use data and analytics to inform project priorities, evaluate
opportunities, establish baselines, and measure business outcomes. Partner with
analytics and technology teams to define reporting and measurement requirements and
ensure appropriate visibility to performance.
Continuous Improvement: Identify recurring operational pain points and lead sustainable
solutions that reduce manual effort, clarify ownership, improve execution, and increase
organizational effectiveness.
The role is performed on -site in office 4 days per week from our Downtown MN campus.
About you:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
About you:
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 4–7 years of experience in project/program management, supply chain,
operations, business transformation, consulting, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects from
definition through implementation, including managing scope, milestones, risks,
dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong ability to lead project teams and drive outcomes without formal authority,
including navigating competing priorities and creating alignment across
stakeholders.
• Experience establishing project governance, facilitating working teams, managing
action and decision logs, and communicating progress to leadership.
• Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to bring
structure to ambiguous or complex business challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy and business needs into executable plans
and sustainable operating processes.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to synthesize
complex information into clear recommendations and leadership-level updates.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to identify opportunities,
evaluate performance, and measure outcomes.
• Experience with reporting, BI platforms, planning systems, SQL, data lakes, or
similar analytical tools is beneficial; deep technical expertise is not required.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance day-to-day execution with
broader project objectives.
• Ability to operate independently while partnering effectively with global teams as
needed.
operations, business transformation, consulting, or related roles.
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional projects from
definition through implementation, including managing scope, milestones, risks,
dependencies, and deliverables.
• Strong ability to lead project teams and drive outcomes without formal authority,
including navigating competing priorities and creating alignment across
stakeholders.
• Experience establishing project governance, facilitating working teams, managing
action and decision logs, and communicating progress to leadership.
• Strong problem-solving and systems-thinking skills, with the ability to bring
structure to ambiguous or complex business challenges.
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy and business needs into executable plans
and sustainable operating processes.
• Excellent communication and storytelling skills, including the ability to synthesize
complex information into clear recommendations and leadership-level updates.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to identify opportunities,
evaluate performance, and measure outcomes.
• Experience with reporting, BI platforms, planning systems, SQL, data lakes, or
similar analytical tools is beneficial; deep technical expertise is not required.
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to balance day-to-day execution with
broader project objectives.
• Ability to operate independently while partnering effectively with global teams as
needed.
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Your financial future is bright with TGT 401(k) offering 5% eligible contribution matching and more discount and reimbursement programs.
Paid time off
Target encourages work-life balance by offering eligible team members vacation time and paid national holidays, sick time and family leave.
Education assistance
Target's industry-leading education assistance benefit, Dream to Be, offers tuition-free programs to support your growth.
Market-leading pay
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Team Target discount
Team members get a 10% discount at all Target stores and Target.com, along with 20% off wellness products and 20% off adult owned-brand apparel and accessories. Plus, get an additional 5% savings with a Target Circle Card.
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