Lead Strategist
- Pay
- $95,000 – $171,000 per year
- Location
- Minneapolis, MN
- Listed
- 12 days ago
About the role
The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00
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.
About you
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 3+ years of experience in the field of strategy
- Strong project management, cross-functional leadership, and collaboration skills with an ability to work effectively with people at all levels and across pyramids
- Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills with a strong ability to tell compelling business and result stories
- Innate curiosity and desire to learn with a strong inclination to drive for results in ambiguous spaces
- Ability to take the right partners at the right time, influence without authority, and to collaborate in a team environment
- Consulting experience preferred
- Advanced degree preferred
Additional information
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 (Tues, Wed, & Thurs) 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.
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 with Enterprise Strategy Development means working directly with senior leaders across the organization to develop business and functional strategies-especially those in support of growth and competitive differentiation. Your work becomes Target's annual Strategic Priorities, which are shared across the company and inform the efforts of thousands of team members worldwide every day.
As a Lead Strategist, you will use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of a team focused on developing 3-5 year time-horizon growth initiatives for the company.
This includes setting performance objectives for strategic consulting-like engagements and developing the approach for achieving these objectives in line with the total Strategy Management System, organizational context, and Enterprise Strategy Development team.
You'll also design the appropriate decision architecture/infrastructure to develop recommendations, secure commitment for decisions, and activate against the decisions with speed and within specified timeframes.
In collaboration with internal partners, you'll create the design and adjustment of an activity's strategy, decision infrastructure, best practice decision process and documentation tools ensuring the activity is integrated with all other management system activities while also delivering the best decisions for Target.
Likewise, you will be expected to proactively align and secure commitment from internal partners, including key officer-level leaders, within and across pyramids to execute your work. You will then own the execution of portions of the activity as appropriate.
This may include executing the work across multiple pyramids, driving alignment/building commitment across enterprise or pyramid teams to deliver activity, designing/facilitating leader conversations to get decisions, setting up and running cross-business teams, or building leader and team capabilities.
Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Equal opportunity and legal notices
In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.
From Target's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 28, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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