Lead Project Manager - Disaster Recovery

About the role

The pay range is $115,000.00 - $206,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family.

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

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About the role

As a Lead Project Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs that strengthen technology reliability, improve visibility and management of technical risk, and increase Target’s ability to recover critical business capabilities. You will bring strategic direction, advanced program leadership, technical and business acumen, and disciplined execution to work spanning teams and organizational levels.

This role focuses on Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, technical risk, and recovery validation through tabletop exercises and other evidence-based practices. You will create the program structure, governance, coordination, and visibility needed to move from application-centric documentation toward dependency-aware, executable, validated, and measurable recovery capability.

Principal duties and responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, and technical risk visibility across priority Reliability programs and business capabilities.
• Connect application-level recovery planning to end-to-end business capability recovery, including objectives, dependencies, ownership, sequencing, playbooks, validation evidence, readiness, and residual risk.
• Plan and operationalize tabletop exercises and other recovery-validation activities, translating findings into prioritized, owned work with target dates, validation methods, and completion evidence.
• Establish practical governance and a shared view of known recovery and technical risks, actions, decisions, and escalation needs while keeping technical ownership with engineering teams.
• Lead complex cross-functional programs through strategy, integrated planning, delivery, and measurable outcomes, managing dependencies, resources, tradeoffs, and risk.
• Build trusted partnerships, remove roadblocks, create executive-ready reporting, and coach stakeholders to strengthen recovery planning, risk management, and execution.
• Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Five or more years of experience leading Disaster Recovery programs, recovery planning and testing, technology resilience, or closely related work.
• Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs with senior leader visibility and applying program-management practices across scope, schedule, resources, communications, dependencies, change, and risk.
• Ability to translate technical risks, recovery dependencies, and business capability impacts into clear plans, decisions, executive communications, and measurable outcomes.
• Strong facilitation, negotiation, analytical, and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence without direct authority.
• Ability to develop sufficient technical and operational depth to partner credibly with engineers and technical leaders and lead through ambiguity and shifting priorities.
• Experience with capability-based recovery, dependency mapping, tabletop exercises, incident recovery, or technical risk management is preferred. Relevant PMP, Disaster Recovery, business continuity, change management, agile is also preferred.

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.

Benefits Eligibility

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.