Director Product Management - Properties

About us:

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is

important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII:

At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Team overview:

Properties

About the Job:

Product Teams at Target Corporation are accountable for the delivery of business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained and highly reliable.

This role specifically, is exciting in that it will have roles and responsibilities that align with both the Product Director and Product Ops Director job families.

Director Product Management - Properties

You are accountable for succeeding against identified business outcomes and metrics, you will set the short and long-term product goals, and quarterly Objectives and Key Results (OKRs). You will be accountable for building, coaching, and mentoring a strong team of product managers while also building a strong team culture of progress, transparency, and efficiency across Product teams. In addition to your product space, you will provide site leadership for Product and Analytics team members in your geo-location that support our Connected Program Management and Maintenance & Operations strategic priorities.

You will be responsible to elevate your collective team’s performance by providing insightful, motivating, and constructive feedback to all roles on the team while also working with senior leadership and peers across pyramids to negotiate and remove execution related barriers for your teams. You will drive product definition and discovery with key stakeholders to validate hypotheses and concepts with customers before committing engineering time, as you lead highly complex work across multiple pyramids, with interrelated specialties. You will leverage data and analytics to provide competitive analysis, drive decision making, assess the health and effectiveness of your products and related P&L impacts, and deliver recommendations to key stakeholders.

It will be critical that you possess an understanding of retail or similar area, relevant technologies and design principles in order to drive innovative and scalable solutions across multiple pyramids within Target.

Product Ops Director - Properties

You will also help advance the global operating model throughout our org by identifying areas of opportunity for growth or optimization, and advancing business context and acumen across the entire global team.​

In support of this goal, you will promote the adoption of a consistent Product and Data & Analytics engagement model in an effort to enhance communication, efficiency, and solution quality, while enabling scalable

operations, data-driven decisions, and effective prioritization.

You will play a critical role demonstrating and advocating a culture of continuous improvement to strengthen best practices and routines. You will evaluate and leverage the latest technology to maximize operational

efficiencies and work closely with the Target Tech team on new opportunities for technology improvements.

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

About you:

• 4-year college degree (or equivalent experience)
• 10+ years of Product Management/ Product Leadership experience
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams
• Understanding of continuous improvement methodologies and training concepts
• Ability to interpret, communicate and advocate company’s strategic direction
• Strong communication skills and proven ability to influence both at a strategic leadership level and cross functionally
• Analytical and strategic problem-solving skills
• Expert at working in the agile environment (e.g. user stories, iterative development, scrum teams, sprints, personas)
• Strategic mindset and bias for action with strong ability for strategic planning, defining OKRs and driving business outcomes
• Ability to lead and influence a team while fostering relationships and building consensus across multiple enterprise-wide teams

Useful Links:

• Life at Target: https://india.target.com/
• Benefits: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/workplace/benefits
• Culture: https://india.target.com/life-at-target/belonging