Director, Inventory Management – Strategic Initiatives, Fresh Food

Job Description:

  • Drive Fresh Food pyramid modernization efforts for Inventory Management with planning, merchandising, and enterprise strategy leaders
  • Drive enterprise acceleration work across multiple workstreams to establish optimal inventory strategy and financial discipline
  • Create the strategic vision for future Fresh Food inventory management technology
  • Collaborate with business and technology teams on technology discovery and creation
  • Shepherd technology from ideation through end-user implementation and continuous improvement
  • Partner with financial technology teams to integrate technology and business processes
  • Represent the business in multiple system implementations supporting Target’s growth and guest expectations
  • Engage cross-functional enterprise teams to balance financial and guest-facing goals
  • Serve as a conduit to the Global Inventory Management team on Fresh Food enterprise acceleration efforts
  • Influence the Global Inventory Management leadership group and drive broader inventory management strategies
  • Partner with IM Operations and Food Inventory Management leadership to support initiatives for guest reliability, sales, and profit

Requirements:

  • 4 year degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of relevant experience in Inventory Management, Supply Chain, or Logistics, preferably supporting technology
  • Knowledge of supply chain and inventory management fundamentals, systems, and practical applications
  • Strong communication, storytelling, and ability to influence senior leaders
  • Financial and business acumen; ability to manage risk
  • Analytical and problem-solving skills; ability to derive actionable insights and forward-thinking recommendations
  • Ability to operate in a rapidly changing work and industry environment and manage complex priorities and situations with degrees of variation and uncertainty
  • Ability to tie work back to team goals and objectives, review competing deliverables, and gather inputs for prioritization decisions
  • Enterprise mindset understanding impacts on own business and partner organizations
  • Ability to act independently in a complex business model
  • Organizational savviness to create and move change throughout the enterprise
  • Ability to bring multiple opinions together and find consensus
  • Ability to lead efforts to drive commitment to belonging
  • Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target

Benefits:

  • Comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
  • 401(k)
  • Employee discount
  • Short term disability
  • Long term disability
  • Paid sick leave
  • Paid national holidays
  • Paid vacation
  • Financial, education, and well-being benefits and programs
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