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Associate Planner
Job Id: R0000448600
About Us
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
As we continue to evolve our digital ecosystem, Target Plus serves as a curated marketplace that brings expanded assortment and value to our guests while driving profitable growth.
The Marketplace Planning team is responsible for driving financial and business performance across Target Plus, through data-driven planning, forecasting, and optimization of key metrics such as GMV, revenue, traffic, and conversion.
Role Overview
The Associate Planner – Planner Support, Discretionary supports Marketplace Planners by providing data-driven planning support, forecasting inputs, business case development, and decision support across discretionary businesses including Home, Fun101, A&A, and Frequency.
This role works closely with Marketplace Planning,, Partner Management, and other cross-functional teams to translate business questions into structured analysis, identify opportunities, and support delivery of financial and operational goals.
Key Responsibilities
1. Financial & Business Planning
- Support development of business plans for key metrics including GMV, revenue, traffic, conversion, and partner productivity.
- Assist in building and maintaining weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts across discretionary planning areas.
- Track performance against plans and highlight risks, opportunities, and key drivers of variance.
2. Planner Decision Support
- Translate planner requests into clear data requirements, analysis plans, and repeatable templates.
- Produce forecasting inputs, pre/ post-performance reads, business cases, and scenario analysis.
- Consolidate data support across Home, Fun101, A&A to improve consistency and speed of decision-making.
3. Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Partner with Marketplace Planners, Partner Management, Finance, and Analytics teams to support business priorities.
- Communicate insights and recommendations clearly to planners and cross-functional stakeholders.
4. Planning Process Excellence
- Support planning cadences including weekly business reviews, forecasting cycles, performance tracking, and business planning routines.
- Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance efficiency through automation.
- Ensure data accuracy, consistency and documentation across planning tools, reports, and planner-facing outputs.
About You
- Bachelor’s degree.
- 3–5 years of experience in business planning, financial analysis, merchandise planning, or eCommerce.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Proficiency in Excel; Ability to work with large datasets and translate data into insights and recommendations.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- High attention to detail with a structured approach to problem solving.
- Demonstrates ownership, curiosity, and a bias for action.
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Competitive benefits
We are proud to provide benefits that support you, your family and your future.
Health and well-being
Target in India (TII) prioritizes our people by offering healthcare support, fitness programs, teleheath benefits (i.e., screenings and consultations) and 24/7 confidential mental well-being telecounseling support.
Financial well-being
Your financial well-being is bright with TII's comprehensive flexible insurance program, National Pension System, learning assistance program, day care support and much more.
Paid time off
TII encourages work-life balance with paid time off like privilege, casual, bereavement and parental leaves that offer support in all stages of life.
Competitive pay
TII knows our people are everything and proudly provides equitable and competitive pay.
Other benefits
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