Insights, Strategy, and Growth Pyramid Overview:

　　Target is one of the best-loved and most recognized retail brands in the market. Our Insights, Strategy, and Growth team helps run the business today, while also focusing on the growing the business for the future. We do this by anticipating and effectively responding to challenges and fueling Target's growth-today, and into the future-regardless of the changes ahead. Here, you will work with internal partners and external agencies in a wide variety of roles. You will also have the opportunity to develop skills across our team superpowers, including consumer & industry insights, strategic problem solving, strategy activation, experimentation, and scaling new businesses. Do you love the idea of helping to shape Target's long-term strategy grounded in guest and industry insights? Are you a champion for rigor and process to ensure successful strategic planning? Can you bring your energy and big ideas to the table in order to build momentum for new business opportunities? Then, bring your talent to the game and join us as we move Target forward.

　　 Strategic Intelligence Team Overview:

　　The Strategic Intelligence team at TII, works with our team in US HQ and serves as Target's source of truth for macroeconomic, retail industry and competitive insights and intelligence. The team supports developing actionable insights that inform Target's corporate strategy, planning, and portfolio decisions. To do so, the team produces analytically ambitious, predictive intelligence with compelling narratives that help shape Target's short and long term aspirations. The team operates in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment. Each team member develops a deep and proactive understanding of the rapidly evolving industry, consumer, competitor, and regional drivers and trends. The Strategic Intelligence Sr. Marketing Researcher will be responsible for supporting the team and maintaining routines to enable the ongoing collection of intelligence.

　　Responsibilities:Support Intelligence Director and Leads in the generation of analytically ambitious, predictive competitive intelligence with compelling narrativesDevelop sustainable routines to collect, catalog and organize qualitative and quantitative intelligence across a broad range of companies, strategic themes and sourcesContinuously collect data from syndicated and open sources and maintain an updated database that can be leveraged by othersAnalyze qualitative and quantitative data sets and proactively escalate relevant developments, risks and opportunitiesCreate learning plan and routines to deliver proactive insights and intelligence for physical store developments within competitive setLeverage depth and breadth of internal and external data sources for supporting research projectsRespond with urgency to leadership ad hoc requestsSkills:Solve business problems with a consumer- centered approach.Strong grasp of quantitative data analysis and statistics from a business perspective, including generating and distilling reports from syndicated and secondary sourcesStrong collaboration to effectively influence a diverse set of stakeholders.Communicate complex concepts clearly and persuasively across different audiences and varying levels of the organization.Manage ambiguity, work autonomously, meet deadlines and multi-task in an agile environment.Strong analytical skills and experience converting qualitative data into quantitative analysisAbility to drive structure out of ambiguity, and navigate disparate insightsAdvanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint and data visualization toolsPreferred Background:Four-year degree or equivalent experienceRetail/E-Commerce ExperienceExperience managing global partnerships (Stakeholders)Minimum of 5+ years of industry experience on researchExperience handling secondary research on competition/industrySignificant experience with different methods of quantitative, qualitative, syndicated and first-party insight toolsExperience analyzing syndicated and secondary data sources, as well as macro trend analysis