Marketplace Support & Capability Development Lead

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00

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.

Right along with Target’s distinctive retail brand, we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. If you excel in fast-changing environments and have a passion for retail and the guest shopping experience, you’ll have success in Target Plus™, Target’s growing online marketplace. Here, you’ll collaborate to create and implement the digital strategies that enrich the online experience for third-party marketplace sellers and guests. Your ideas will support scalable growth and create efficiencies for the Target Plus merchandising and operations teams.

Join Target’s Digital team as a Lead Marketplace Assortment Governance Analyst supporting Target Plus. In this role, you will lead the development and ongoing governance of marketplace standards that determine which brands and products sellers are authorized and eligible to sell on Target Plus.

You will establish scalable governance across brand authorization, assortment eligibility, product authenticity, intellectual property, ratings and reviews, and related marketplace trust controls, including sourcing integrity, counterfeit prevention risk monitoring and enforcement. You will translate Target’s enterprise standards and risk posture into clear Marketplace policies, decision criteria, operational processes, and technology requirements.

This role will work closely with Marketplace teams and stakeholders acrossMerchandising, Legal, Compliance, Brand Management, Product, Engineering, Operations, and other enterprise teams to establish clear standards and decision rights while enabling Target Plus to scale a trusted assortment.

This role is well suited for someone who enjoys solving ambiguous problems, establishing governance standards, using data to identify risk and opportunities, and influencing cross-functional teams to turn strategy into scalable capabilities.

Primary responsibilities of this role include:

• Collaborate on the development and lead the ongoing governance of Target Plus assortment standards, defining which brands, categories, item types, product attributes, and assortment are eligible for the Marketplace.

• Establish scalable authorization, approval, expansion, restriction, exception, and escalation frameworks that ensure sellers offer only assortment they are authorized and eligible to sell.

• Partner with Merchandising, Legal, Compliance, Brand Management, Enterprise Item, and other stakeholders to translate Target's brand standards and risk posture into clear Marketplace decision criteria and controls.

• Strengthen item classification and assortment data integrity by defining taxonomy, attribute, validation, and business-rule requirements needed to consistently apply Marketplace controls.

• Establish risk-based screening, review, and approval requirements for new assortment, including criteria for automated decisioning and human review.

• Develop proactive monitoring and targeted audit strategies for live assortment and establish consistent remediation, restriction, enforcement, and relisting requirements.

• Partner with Product, Engineering, Data Science, and Operations to translate assortment-governance requirements into scalable technology, automation, and operational capabilities.

• Establish decision rights, operating procedures, reporting, KPIs, and continuous-improvement mechanisms to measure control effectiveness and evolve Marketplace assortment governance over time.

Core responsibilities are subject to change at any time based on business needs.

About You:

• Four-year college degree or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of experience in marketplace operations, retail operations, assortment management, risk, compliance, brand management, digital operations, or a related field.

• Demonstrated experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives and influencing stakeholders without direct authority.

• Experience developing governance frameworks, business rules, operating procedures, or approval processes.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to use data and operational insights to identify risks, evaluate tradeoffs, and recommend solutions.

• Ability to understand complex seller, brand, product, and assortment relationships and translate them into practical business controls. 

• Experience partnering with Product and/or Engineering teams to translate business requirements into scalable technology capabilities preferred.

• Familiarity with marketplace seller models, brand authorization, intellectual property, product authenticity, ratings and reviews, or digital assortment management preferred.

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.

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