Project Manager - Technology Infrastructure Rollout & Deployment

Use your skills, experience, and talents to help deliver technology infrastructure projects supporting Target’s strategic priorities.

As a Project Manager within Technology Infrastructure Rollout & Deployment, you’ll plan, coordinate, and support the delivery of hardware and infrastructure initiatives across Target locations. Projects may include store modernization, supply chain and construction initiatives, infrastructure upgrades, and other enterprise technology deployments.

You’ll partner with Senior Project Managers, technology teams, business partners, field and construction teams, and vendors to translate project objectives into executable plans and drive successful project outcomes.

What You’ll Do

• Develop and execute project plans supporting technology hardware and infrastructure initiatives.
• Manage project scope, schedules, milestones, dependencies, financials, risks, and issues. Evaluate competing priorities and project constraints to make recommendations and decisions that drive successful project outcomes.
• Lead day-to-day project execution by establishing priorities, driving accountability, resolving obstacles, and influencing cross-functional stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
• Coordinate technology procurement, deployment, installation, and site-readiness activities as required by the project.
• Analyze schedule, scope, resource, financial, and delivery risks; evaluate tradeoffs; and determine appropriate mitigation strategies or escalation paths to minimize project impacts.
• Maintain accurate project plans, status reporting, financial tracking, and documentation using Smartsheet and related tools.
• Assess project health and performance, formulate recommendations, and communicate project decisions, risks, tradeoffs, and required actions to stakeholders and leadership.
• Independently manage projects or workstreams by determining execution approaches, evaluating alternatives, making project-level decisions, and recommending solutions that align with business and technology objectives.
• Balance multiple concurrent priorities while making informed decisions regarding scope, schedule, resources, and risk to optimize delivery outcomes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement and standardization of project delivery processes, tools, and practices.
• Evaluate project challenges, alternatives, and business requirements to recommend solutions, influence stakeholder decisions, and drive outcomes that support broader enterprise and technology objectives.
• Analyze schedule, cost, scope, resource, and risk tradeoffs to determine the most effective path forward while maintaining alignment with project goals and strategic priorities.

Core responsibilities of this role are described within this job description. Role duties may change at any time based on business needs.

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 2+ years of project delivery experience, preferably supporting technology infrastructure or hardware deployments.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise independent judgment, analyze complex situations, evaluate alternatives, and make recommendations that influence project direction and business outcomes. Strong project planning, organizational, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to coordinate cross-functional teams and drive accountability for commitments and deliverables.
• Detail-oriented with demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities and complete work accurately and on time.
• Ability to work effectively both independently and within collaborative project teams.
• Ability to proactively identify risks, dependencies, and potential impacts to project delivery.
• Ability to quickly learn and apply new processes, tools, and technical concepts.
• Familiarity with Smartsheet and Excel, including data analysis and lookup capabilities.
• Experience with retail technology, construction, supply chain/distribution facilities, or large-scale technology deployments is preferred.
• Exposure to networking, structured cabling, compute, wireless, power, or other infrastructure technologies is a plus., Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D

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