Sr Analyst Performance & Insights
Target · Posted Oct 16
General merchandise, apparel, grocery, and home goods retail services
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About the role
Roundel is Target's retail media network, designing and delivering measurable marketing for brands and agencies across online and in-store environments. The Performance & Insights team enables advertisers to measure, understand, and optimize media investment through advanced analytics, measurement strategy, experimentation, visualization, storytelling, and AI-enabled capabilities. This Senior Analyst role leads scaled and custom analytics projects, builds reusable analytical frameworks, dashboards, and statistical models, and partners with product, measurement, data, and GTM teams.
What you will do
- Measurement strategy & expertise: Translate business questions into practical analytical and measurement approaches, choosing suitable methods and explaining assumptions, bias and limitations.
- Statistical rigor & evidence validation: Apply statistical tests, confidence intervals, power and sample-size calculations to assess performance differences and determine whether results are meaningful.
- Develop predictive and diagnostic analytical capabilities: Use regression, time-series and predictive analysis to understand performance drivers, conversion behavior, seasonality and potential growth or investment opportunities
- Lead and deliver custom analytics projects for the P&I team: Deliver custom analyses of campaign, audience, creative and customer performance, for existing and emerging business questions
- Productize repeatable analytical work: Convert recurring analyses and business questions into reusable modules, frameworks, datasets, metrics, code packages, dashboards, and self-service products with clear inputs, quality checks, statistical validation and guidance for interpreting results.
- Analytical storytelling & decision support: Present clear recommendations, work with business, measurement, product and data teams, and help analysts adopt new methods and tools.
- Partner cross-functionally: Work with Product, Measurement, Data Strategy, GTM, and P&I teams to align analytical capabilities with business needs.
- Responsible GenAI usage: Explore responsible uses of GenAI to simplify analytical workflows, automate routine work and support insight generation while maintaining appropriate validation and oversight.
Skills used in this role
What the employer is looking for
- 5+ years of experience in marketing analytics, retail analytics, measurement, data science, or a related analytical discipline.
- Master's degree in Statistics or Economics, Data Science, Analytics or a related quantitative field.
- Strong hands-on knowledge of descriptive statistics; hypothesis testing (t-tests and z-tests); confidence intervals; Pearson and Spearman correlation; proportion and chi-square tests; and the ability to interpret meaningful performance differences and uncertainty.
- Practical experience with A/B testing and experimental design, including test/control groups, randomization, statistical power, and sample-size calculations.
- Ability to assess bias, assumptions, and limitations and explain whether results support a business conclusion.
- Ability to apply linear, multiple linear and logistic regression, time-series analysis, and outlier detection or robust statistics to business problems.
- Advanced SQL and working proficiency in Python for statistical analysis and reusable workflows; experience with relevant libraries such as pandas, NumPy, SciPy or statsmodels and cloud platforms such as GCP or Azure.
Preferred qualifications
- ANOVA, bootstrap methods, multiple-comparison corrections, matched controls, difference-in-differences, segmentation/clustering, response models or other advanced predictive and causal techniques.
- Hands-on familiarity with Generative AI and large language model applications in analytical workflows, including areas such as prompt design, code assistance, analytical agents/workflows, governed knowledge retrieval, and automated synthesis.
- Experience building analytical solutions and communicating findings clearly, with working knowledge of BI tools and practical GenAI applications.
- Strong problem-solving, collaboration and stakeholder communication skills.
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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