Lead Data Analyst
Target · Posted Nov 6
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
The Data Analytics team at TII works across domains such as Marketing and Digital, Merchandising, Supply Chain and Logistics, Store Operations, and Finance, collaborating with business leaders to turn data into insights for strategic decisions. Target's Data & Analytics team builds tools and data products that support personalization, IoT applications, fraud detection, supply chain optimization, demand forecasting, and A/B testing opportunities. This role combines technical expertise with business understanding to design analytical and AI-driven solutions, work with large-scale datasets, and communicate actionable insights to stakeholders.
What you will do
- Demonstrate thought leadership in the application of data, analytics, and AI to influence merchandising strategy and outcomes
- Independently translate ambiguous business problems into structured analytical approaches, including scenario, decision, and action modelling
- Partner with Target business stakeholders to understand priorities and roadmaps, validate analytical requirements, and present insights and recommendations with clarity and impact
- Design, develop, and deliver analytical and AI-driven solutions (including GenAI, Agent, and Agentic approaches) that enable decision support, forecasting, optimization, and automation
- Apply advanced analytics techniques, including causal, predictive, and prescriptive analytics, to drive deeper understanding of business levers and inform optimal actions
- Work with large-scale datasets using platforms such as GCP BigQuery, Spark, and SQL-based data warehouses; build and maintain reliable data pipelines using Airflow or similar orchestration tools
- Evaluate and monitor AI-driven analytical workflows, defining quality metrics (e.g., accuracy, relevance), assessing reliability, and measuring tangible business impact
- Synthesize complex analyses into compelling narratives; act as a strong storyteller who can influence executive and merchant audiences using data
- Develop strong business acumen and cultivate trusted relationships with internal clients and partners
- Create high-quality analytical and AI solution artifacts, documenting methodologies, assumptions, models, and decision logic
- Contribute to knowledge-sharing systems that support reuse, iteration, and continuous improvement of analytical models and approaches
- Ensure compliance with corporate data protection standards and embed responsible AI practices, including data privacy, bias mitigation, and explainability
- Stay current with industry trends, emerging methodologies, and best practices in analytics, AI, and retail decision science
Skills used in this role
Benefits and support
- Compensation and benefits are detailed in the job posting
About Target
Target Corporation operates an extensive chain of general merchandise and discount retail department stores across the United States. The company provides a broad assortment of owned and national brand products, including apparel, electronics, beauty items, groceries, and home goods. Through its physical stores and digital platforms, Target focuses on delivering style, design, and value to help consumers discover the joy of everyday life.
- Industry
- Retail
- Company size
- 415000+ employees
- Founded
- 1902
- Location
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Funding stage
- Public Company
Leadership
Chief Executive Officer
Executive Chair of the Board
Jim Lee
Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Prat Vemana
Executive Vice President and Chief Information and Product Officer
Mark Weinstein
Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing and Guest Experience Officer
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