Sr Data Analyst

Job Id: R0000437844

The pay range is $88,000.00 - $158,000.00

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:

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.

A role in Target’s Food Supply Chain is a chance to truly serve our guests with speed, freshness and quality. We strengthen the efficiency of product delivery and partner across Target’s Global Supply Chain to provide the highest quality food products to our guests—on time, every time. Here, your role might be extracting business insights from data, solving problem statements, conducting gap analysis and recommending focus areas for leadership. Or you’ll be an inventory management resource whose specialized point of view informs what we buy, from whom, how much and where it needs to go from there. You’ll leverage inventory positioning to achieve the best possible product availability, and establish and develop great relationships with our vendors to encourage on-time delivery. Or join our team in a food distribution center where you’re on the very front lines of getting product to the guest as fast as possible—a critical differentiator that keeps Target guests coming back for more.

This Senior Data Analyst role within the Food Supply Chain Data & Analytics team is focused on accelerating next-generation data capabilities to unlock scalable, profitable growth across Target’s food supply chain initiatives. The position operates at the intersection of business strategy and advanced analytics, partnering cross-functionally to frame high-impact problems and translate them into data-driven solutions.

You will architect and deploy end-to-end analytical approaches—spanning data acquisition, modeling, validation, and interpretation—leveraging modern methodologies and tools. Insights will be synthesized into compelling narratives and delivered to senior stakeholders to inform strategic decision-making. The role also involves designing intuitive, high-performance dashboards and reporting ecosystems grounded in best-in-class data visualization principles, enabling real-time, actionable intelligence. Additionally, you will establish robust documentation standards for analytical frameworks and continuously evolve your toolkit by staying at the forefront of emerging trends in data science, machine learning, and visualization technologies.

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

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 3+ years as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience
• Advanced SQL experience writing complex queries
• Strong experience navigating and integrating data across large-scale warehouse environments (e.g., BigRed3, GCP/BigQuery), with an understanding of data architecture, performance tuning, and scalability
• Intermediately accomplished with Python or R
• Knowledge of forecasting models including statistical analysis
• Advanced data visualization skills; building interactive, executive ready dashboards in tools like Power BI, Looker, Tableau, etc.
• Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, data creation and consolidation
• Support conclusions with a clear, understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualizations
• Willingness to ask questions about business objectives and the measurement needs for a project workstream, and be able to measure objectives & key results
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams, and translate ideas between them
• Experience in analytics tools such as: SQL, Excel, Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Python, R, Domo, Adobe Analytics (or Google Analytics) and/or equivalent technologies

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

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.