Buyer, Hardware & Utility

Target; Minneapolis (MN); Hybrid; USD 73,000 - 132,000; Full time

Job summary

Target is seeking a Buyer in Hardware & Utility to shape assortment strategy and drive omni-channel growth. You will manage vendor partners, influence product development, and align with cross-functional teams to meet guest needs across channels.

Based in Minneapolis with a Hybrid/Flex work arrangement, you will collaborate with category managers, designers, and merchants to optimize profits, margins, and guest satisfaction.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 1+ years of Merchandising experience.
• Strong strategic and analytical skills to grow a business.
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with Cross Functional Teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead a broad portfolio of categories, brands, and vendor partners.
• Define a distinctive role for Target within key Hardware & Utility categories.
• Enhance the guest experience through stronger coordination across the Division.
• Identify emerging brands and build partnerships that bring new and relevant products to Target.
• Simplify and strengthen executional processes to enable greater focus on strategic priorities.

Skills

Merchandising experience

Analytical skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

The pay range is $73,000.00 - $132,000.00

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.

A role in Buying means working with several diverse vendors to choose the best product mix, both in-store and online. We help determine where to localize, while calibrating market positioning and acting as brand managers. Here, you’ll own a wide SKU count so that your work is varied and challenging. Through cross-functional collaboration, instinct and creativity, you will be the expert on the guest, the market and the competition.

A Buyer helps create omni-channel growth by planning profitable and locally relevant assortments using your grasp of guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements and competitors. You will influence and negotiate with vendors to achieve results and identify gaps and opportunities. Your flexibility in reacting to business results and your ability to translate financial metrics and data into actionable strategies will be critical. You will lead cross-functional teams to drive category results while managing progress toward sales and margin goals. Your partnerships with product designers and/or category managers and vendors will help guide product development as you source appropriately for your category. You will interact with Associate Buyers, Senior Merchandise Specialists, the Pricing and Promotion Center of Excellence, Planning, Site Merchandising, the Item Center of Excellence and many other expert partners in support of your promotional planning work across channels.

Role

This role offers the opportunity to shape Target’s position in Hardware & Utility, develop strategies for long-term growth, and identify meaningful opportunities across channels. Working closely with the category Senior Buyer and cross-functional partners, this Buyer will:

• Lead a broad portfolio of categories, brands, and vendor partners.
• Define a distinctive role for Target within key Hardware & Utility categories.
• Enhance the guest experience through stronger coordination across the Division.
• Identify emerging brands and build partnerships that bring new and relevant products to Target.
• Simplify and strengthen executional processes to enable greater focus on strategic priorities.

About You

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 1+ years of Merchandising experience
• Strong strategic and analytical skills to grow a business
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with Cross Functional Teams
• Flexibility, resilient and comfortable working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing
• Consumer-obsessed and able to translate style and design into functional categories in a way that is distinctly Target.
• Innovative and skilled at turning opportunities into action.
• Highly organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in ambiguity.
• Strong relationship builders who contribute to a collaborative and positive team culture.

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

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 be performed both onsite at the assigned Target HQ MN location and virtually, depending on the needs of the role, team, and tasks for that day. Current in-office expectations are Monday through Thursday, subject to change based on business needs. Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to [e-mail]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

Application deadline is : 09/03/2026