Description:

　　About us:

　　Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.

　　Target Human Resources is well known for its signature ability to build the very best teams, and we infuse our work with Target’s distinctive retail brand by continuously experimenting, evolving and innovating. With the chance to positively impact nearly 350,000 people worldwide in our stores, distribution centers and headquarters, you’ll be a strategic partner to both the leaders and the team members who elevate and nurture the Target guest experience. Our dynamic, passionate and responsive team comprises specialized people-professionals from several diverse disciplines. We operate behind the scenes to create a progressive culture of value, respect, reward and professional advancement.

　　The People Analytics & Insights team mission is to empower a data driven approach to HR and people decisions regarding our global workforce. We are uniquely positioned to provide unbiased insights to unlock value and drive outcomes and to enable and influence HR and business strategy.

　　The People Analytics & Insights team

　　Integrates into the business as strategic HR analytics partners and anticipates and uncovers stated or unstated needs.

　　Listens and empowers team member and external stakeholder voice

　　Uses our analytics expertise to test, measure, analyze, understand and answer various business questions

　　Provide reporting to help inform on the current state of the business and help facilitate process at scale

　　Connects our understanding across business and HR to deliver data driven products and solutions

　　Provide meaningful insights and recommendations

　　About the role :

　　Our Sr. Data Analysts are expected to explore data, technologies, and the application of mathematical techniques to enable business insights. Data analysts accomplish this through a wide variety of skills including: data wrangling, reporting, dashboarding, visualization, statistical analysis, modeling, and the presentation of recommendations and insight. Analysts will work within an agile environment, which requires active participation in ceremonies to accomplish the team’s goals. They also develop domain knowledge as they learn about their business area and support applying key data management principles like metadata management, data profiling, and documenting their data lineage.

　　Actively exploring data for specific use cases

　　Creating measurable insights from the data to be shared

　　Developing metrics, reports, and statistics

　　Documenting calculations, code, and adhering to data management principles

　　Validating and testing data assets of others in the form of peer review

　　Exploring statistical analysis that could be applied to the data

　　Performing descriptive statistics including mean, variance, median, correlation

　　Applies insights and testing in partnership with business users

　　Active participant in team meetings

　　Support agile ceremonies

　　About You:

　　Must have minimum 3 years of college degree with mathematics or statistics knowledge

　　4+ years work experience in data analysis or masters level education in business analytics, data science, etc.

　　Knowledge of data, reporting, and analytics

　　Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education

　　Proficient with various programming languages- SQL, R, Python

　　Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases

　　Math and/or Statistics:

　　Mathematical logic (AND, OR, NOT)

　　Descriptive and Inferential Statistics

　　Calculus (weighted averages, rates of change, single variable)

　　Testing and Research Design:

　　Apply the scientific method and experimental design

　　Generate insight from observational data

　　Qualifications: