Job Description

The Operations Design & Excellence Center for Stores (ODECS) in Target In India is positioned to deliver excellence in operations in support of stores strategy focused on guest, operations and team. A role with ODECS means a big opportunity to apply your retail, operations, and process engineering/improvement experience to directly support Targets long-range plans for sales, efficiency, profitability and capacity. You will be responsible for driving improvements to replenishment, space, fulfillment, and checkout processes in stores by applying best practices and methods, driving innovation, and working horizontally across the enterprise to maximize synergies in operations. As a Senior Operations Engineer Operations Design & Excellence you will be responsible for applying process engineering methods like Lean, Six Sigma, PDCA to identify defects and waste in existing store processes. You will create value stream maps, paretos to identify critical points of failure in the process. You will be responsible for applying statistical, optimization and simulation modeling techniques to recommend solutions. You will provide critical inputs to inform long term strategy, deliverables, and milestones. You will need to identify minimum viable solutions, deploy test and measurement strategies, establish feedback mechanisms to continuously iterate upon and improved solutions. You will be required to collect and synthesize information across various teams, apply data and intuition and generate insights that guide decisions. You will be required to collaborate horizontally throughout the organization across different levels and areas of work to drive alignment to shared goals and outcomes. About You: 4-year Bachelors degree in engineering, mathematics, computer science or equivalent 2-5 years experience in retail, operations, supply chain Experience with Lean, Six Signa, PDCA Familiarity with statistical, optimization and simulation modeling techniques Comfortable in ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment Strong verbal and written communication Ability to drive alignment across stakeholders with divergent points of view.