Job Description

As a Director (SPT), you will lead, coach and develop a team of 70+ Team Members (including people leaders) in owning End-to-End Execution of Adjacencies and Planograms at TII. Your responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:

Team:

- Lead teams to develop and drive timing and actions, lead their cross-functional team (CFT), and hold others accountable to key deadlines and quality expectations

- Actively participate in Divisional Merchandising Manager meeting to ensure strategies are implemented, and educate team members on the impact of their decisions.

- Lead planning & improvements for hiring, training, coaching, & recognition.

- Ensure that team members are highly motivated and performing to their full potential by:

- Providing insightful, motivating and constructive feedback to the team, helping them gain insights about themselves, their effectiveness and the organization.

- Help the team integrate their goals and capabilities with the organization's emerging needs.

- Identify and attract key individuals with the critical capabilities needed by the organization.

- Define and develop clear roles, responsibilities and routines to ensure flawless execution of space and presentation

Business:

- Influence pyramid space and presentation strategies

- Establish and grow relationships with key decision-makers within the cross-functional team, both in Target in India and Minneapolis to drive strategic business initiatives.

- Drive cross pyramid collaboration to grow contextual knowledge, understand downstream impacts of the teams decisions and work outputs

Operations:

- Develop and execute short term (12 months) and long term (24 months) strategies across operations to transfer, stabilize and scale new capabilities

- Work with product management leadership to influence the product roadmap

- Focus on financials, improve effectiveness of the team by introducing new systems and procedures and or improving existing processes.

About you:

- Four-year degree or equivalent experience

- 15+ years of overall experience, preferably at least some in brick and mortar retail especially in Inventory, merchandizing planning, space and presentation and other related areas

- Strong team leadership (5 years minimum), ability to be a leader of leaders

- Ability to engage and inspire others, co-create organizational roadmaps

- Demonstrated commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

- Excellent planning, organizational, and data-driven decision making skills

- Ability to influence and ideate thoughts with global senior leadership across pyramid teams

- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal as well as written

- Experience working with Product Managers in solving complex business problems

- Responsive and resilient to changes in a dynamic competitive retail environment

- Ability to demonstrate courage, think critically, and drive for results