Lead Growth Manager, Enterprise Growth Initiatives

Exempt

09/24

About Us: 

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here 

A role within Enterprise Growth Initiatives means helping Target build beyond the core and create future focus for the organization. You will be part of a team of hybrid thinkers, actively leveraging each other’s skills and knowledge, with a bias to deliver timely business impact. From exploration to activation, you will accelerate and validate new concepts that differentiate the guest experience and generate new revenue streams. Whether exploring new business models designed to meet guest needs or commercializing and integrating new growth back into the organization, you will ensure success by rapidly applying your expertise and fostering an entrepreneurial culture while leveraging the benefit of a large organization’s knowledge and resources. 

As a Lead Growth Manager, you will work strategically and collaboratively to identify, develop, and incubate new growth opportunities for Target. This could include (but is not limited to): 

• Drive project workstreams to identify and develop business cases for innovative solutions that address unmet consumer needs while ensuring financial viability and operational feasibility.

• Leverage primary (qualitative and quantitative) and secondary (desktop) research techniques to evaluate macro trends and broader emerging themes to identify areas of opportunity and consumer needs 

• Synthesize key consumer problems or unmet needs from research into insights that create potential paths for new solutions 

• Collaboratively develop new solutions through human-centered design thinking, concepting and ideation techniques to generate bold opportunities and solutions  

• Define learning plans and experiments to test critical hypotheses and validate the riskiest assumptions; develop prototypes (in various forms and fidelities, from digital to physical) to evaluate desirability of potential solutions as needed 

• Translate evidence and insights into clear business cases, articulating consumer desirability, financial viability, and operational feasibility for executive decision-making 

• Develop clear, compelling narratives and presentations for C-suite, board level presentations, and executive briefings  

• Collaborate, motivate and coordinate with internal teams, cross-functional partners, and/or external partners to achieve stated goals (e.g., developing prototype, running experiments) 

• Participate in continuous team improvement including advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts, fostering connections and relationships across the enterprise, and demonstrating individual drive and initiative 

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

About You: 

• A minimum of 6+ years relevant experience from professions such as management consulting, research, corporate innovation, or creative agency with a focus on identifying, researching, and launching new products, services, experiences or businesses 

• Strong problem-solving and critical thinking skills; thinks strategically, with an outside-in perspective and eye towards practicalities of execution  

• Excellent written and verbal communication, particularly PowerPoint presentation skills, with experience presenting to executive leadership  

• Deep functional expertise in one or more areas (e.g., design thinking, strategy development, human-centered research, financial analysis) 

• Effectively influence without authority to drive business decisions via active listening and stakeholder engagement  

• Strong interpersonal skills with the ability to read people and connect to multiple audiences; collaborative nature and ability to build long-term partnerships  

• Respects, appreciates and is curious about differences related to working with others; committed to developing an inclusive team  

• Proactive communicator, accountable for self and team performance  

• Strong project manager, able to develop work plans for self and workstream, including multiple milestones that requires active upward management  

• Humble, curious, roll-up-your sleeves self-starter and jack of all trades with the ability to imagine boldly, communicate effectively, think critically, get scrappy, be entrepreneurial and navigate ambiguity  

• Thrives in creating structure in ambiguous situations; innate curiosity and desire to learn with a strong inclination to drive for results in unclear spaces 

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.