Sr. Manager Site Merchandise Strategy & Platform,...

The Category Site Merchandising team focuses on increasing digital topline sales by optimizing conversion and the overall site experience. The team plays a crucial role in ensuring findability and discoverability of products, making it easy for guests to locate and discover items. By partnering with various teams within and outside of the Digital organization, the team drives the right experience for each category. Additionally, the team is responsible for delivering financial outcomes and plans for the digital business, ensuring that financial goals are met and sustained.

The Senior Manager, Site Merchandising Strategy & Planning- Food & Beverage, is responsible for delivering the digital vision for their pyramid and driving alignment with cross functional teams. This role partners to develop the pyramid’s digital roadmap, quarterly planning process and manages the Digital Roundtable process. They translate business priorities into actionable digital initiatives that enhance guest experience and deliver enterprise growth. As a key strategic connector between pyramid leadership and digital partners, this leader ensures cross-functional clarity, drives operational excellence, and influences decision-making through data, storytelling, and a deep understanding of the evolving digital landscape.

Core Responsibilities:

Program Strategy & Execution: Lead large, complex programs and strategic initiatives that advance digital and enterprise goals.

• Drive the development of a clear digital vision and roadmap for the Pyramid with the Sr. Director, collaborating with cross-functional partners in Merch, Supply Chain, and Marketing to ensure alignment with enterprise strategies and guest experience goals

• Partner with the Senior Manager of Category Site Merchandising to lead the pyramid’s quarterly planning process, connecting short-term activations with long-range digital priorities. Develop timelines, milestones, and deliverables; hold partners accountable for on-time execution.

• Partner with the Senior Director of Site Merchandising to deliver insightful, actionable Digital Roundtable meetings that align merchandising, marketing, and guest experience strategies across 1P/2P/3P assortments.

Initiative Translation & Digital Partnership: Translate pyramid strategies into clear, executable projects for Digital Roundtable and Journey Line partners.

• Define supporting workstreams, success measures, and dependencies that enable efficient execution across digital and enterprise teams.

• Drive clarity of ownership and communication across cross-functional partners.

Enablement Partnership : Serve as a pyramid partner for Site Merchandising Enablement captainships to ensure streamlined adoption and scale at the pyramid level.

• Act as the single point of contact for pyramid engagement with new and emerging technologies, in partnership with the Enablement team.

• Create and refine operational processes, tools, and playbooks to drive efficiency, consistency, and scalable execution across the business pyramid.

Data-Driven Insights & Optimization: Utilize data and analytics to evaluate site performance, assess program impact, and identify optimization opportunities.

• Establish measurable KPIs for key strategic programs and track progress toward business outcomes.

• Influence prioritization and gain alignment on key initiatives by connecting guest insights, market trends, and business impact.

Executive Communication & Strategic Storytelling

• Develop clear, compelling communications and presentations for senior leadership that articulate vision, performance, and future direction.

• Drive alignment and decision-making by connecting results and recommendations to enterprise and digital strategies.

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

Right along with Target’s distinctive retail brand, we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. Are you ready to excel in the fast-changing retail environment? Are you a customer service enthusiast who’s curious about the guest and can see the shopping journey through their eyes? Then you’ll have success on the Digital Strategy & Platform team, whose goal is to offer guests a seamless online shopping experience across our platforms-including Target.com and the store network’s fulfillment capabilities. Here, you’ll collaborate to create and implement the digital strategies that enrich the online experience through the right mix of personalization, simplicity and intuitiveness. Your ideas will support Target in complementing the beloved in-store shopping interaction with a convenient, reliable and instantly gratifying digital experience., + 4 yearcollege degree or equivalent experience

• 8+ years e-commerce experience

• 2+ years of category level Site Merchandising experience at the Sr. Manager level

• Deep business acumen with an entrepreneurial, revenue-generating mindset

• Must have both strong technical acumen and a passion for customer experience

• Excellent understanding of mass merchandising, retail,e-commerceand multi-channel retailing

• Demonstrated experience in strategic and cross-functional influence,planningand execution

• High levelof initiative and organization, with the ability to manage ambiguity, risk,uncertaintyand changing directions

• Demonstrated experience in team leadership, with a personal interest in development

• Strong analytical and quantitative skills, including financial and business metrics

• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to varying levels of leadership

• Demonstrate a deep understanding of e-commerce principles and the full customer journey funnel, tooptimizesite performance and enhance the digital shopping experience

• Experience in leading large-scale projects, track deliverables,allocateresources, and ensure alignment with strategic objectives, Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

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 .

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