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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.

Target Merchandising is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how this $100+ billion retailer offers the innovative, guest-inspiring items that Target is known and loved for. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, quality and style to elevate Target as the premier retailer in a competitive global marketplace. Through intelligent and progressive business strategies that make the most of Target’s resources and partnerships worldwide, Merchandising works across product categories to create a localized shopping experience online and in our 1800+ stores. Are you a creative problem solver who loves to see your work translate into real results? Can you collaborate effectively, execute a plan efficiently and positively influence how Target chooses and presents the right product in the right place at the right price? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

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. Product teams have one shared backlog that is inclusive of all product, technology and design work. 

Providing a high-quality experience for Target’s business partners is critical to ensuring we can deliver on our strategy to become America’s Favorite Destination for Discovery. To continue to improve the overall experience for our business partners, we are investing in new capabilities to help make it easier for them to work with us in service of our Guest. Our business partners work with many teams across Target, and we’re looking for a product leader with a proven track record of connecting product portfolios across business domains to deliver simplified experiences. 

As the Principal Product Manager for Vendor Experience, you will be responsible for leading the development and execution of an improved end-to-end experience for Target’s business partners. You will use extensive user, customer, and industry research to develop a vision for enabling Target’s business partners to grow their businesses faster and more efficiently with us. You will work closely with Product Management, UX, Engineering, Operations, and Data leaders across the enterprise to understand how to most effectively bring that vision to lifeand support other strategic priorities. You will champion a new operating model that will enable more connectivity and alignment across the enterprise, with teams such as Global Supply Chain, Merchandise Capabilities, and many more.

As Principal Product Manager, you will work in the product model and will lead the development of a comprehensive strategy and set key business objectives (OKRs) for your respective product domain. You will need to leverage extensive knowledge of your product, as well as, customer feedback, key data and analytics, and other relevant data points to assess value, develop business cases, and prioritize the direction and desired outcomes for your product. 

You will develop and actively maintain a product roadmap outlining prioritization for the customer themes, technical needs, and design challenges to be delivered and you will be accountable to make final decisions on scope and prioritization relative to the product backlog. You will be accountable to create and manage product objectives and key results, key metrics for your product, as well as related P&L impacts. 

You will oversee progress against product backlogs to ensure work and priorities are in line with the product strategy while prioritizing themes, epics, and stories, to ensure work focuses on those with maximum value that are aligned with the product strategy. 

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

• 10+ years of product management or equivalent domain experience

• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams 

• Experience working with User Experience Research and Business Insights teams to develop a user-centric strategy that is differentiated in the marketplace

• Strong communication skills with proven ability to influence peers, key stakeholders and VP+ leaders

• Expert at working in an agile environment (e.g., user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)

• Ability to plan and set a strategy, define Organizational Key Results (OKRs), communicate and drive business outcomes

• Expert in Product area

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 performedboth 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.