Senior Program Leader — Strategy & Execution

Target; Brooklyn Park (MN); Hybrid; USD 95,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote or Hybrid work arrangement

Flex for Your Day

Job summary

Target is seeking a Lead Program Manager in the United States to drive the successful execution of large-scale programs and strategic initiatives. You will translate strategies into charters, roadmaps and plans, managing cross-functional teams and complex interdependencies across the enterprise.

You will partner with Strategy & Enablement, portfolio, data analytics, change management and communications, ensuring accountability and clear direction.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in Business, Strategy, Program Management or a related field.
• 4+ years of experience in strategy implementation, large-scale enterprise initiatives and transformation projects, or relevant experience.
• Experience managing ambiguous, complex, strategic work at varying levels of details and time horizons.
• Experience with program management execution, inclusive of developing and running governance routines, driving risk and decision management, and ability to ensure accountability across leaders and business partners.
• Excellent relationship management, ensuing strong working relationships with cross functional teams and leaders while influencing and supporting change management.
• Strong facilitation, problem-solving, synthesizing, and driving to solutions, including influencing without authority.
• Strong resilience, curiosity and flexibility to work through conflict, setbacks and competing priorities.
• Excellent written, oral, communication, networking, and presentation skills, including ability to distill complex topics into clear storytelling and executive updates.

Responsibilities

• Lead program and initiative translation into charters, road mapping and project planning while ensuring connections back to objectives and key results (OKRs), including cross dependencies and visibility to conflicting priorities and tradeoffs.
• Partner across S&E, inclusive of portfolio, product, data analytics, change management and communications, as well as across TES and the enterprise to manage key stakeholders and create shared direction and clear accountabilities.
• Establish program management practices including cross functional and leader routines that improve prioritization, planning, risk mitigation, visibility and decision-making for complex, cross functional initiatives.
• Leverage program management professional practices, frameworks and tools. Foster consistency, clarity, and rigor in program expectations, processes, analyses, and problem solving.
• Promote a strong, trusting, positive and connected team culture.
• Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Target is seeking a Lead Program Manager in the United States to drive the successful execution of large-scale programs and strategic initiatives. You will translate strategies into charters, roadmaps and plans, managing cross-functional teams and complex interdependencies across the enterprise.

You will partner with Strategy & Enablement, portfolio, data analytics, change management and communications, ensuring accountability and clear direction.