Owned Brands Project Manager - Food & Beverage

The pay range is $71,000.00 - $128,000.00

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Owned Brands Project Manager - Food & Beverage
Exempt

04/25

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.

Target Food & Beverages (F&B) - At Target, food is life. So, it's the mission of our Food & Beverage organization to help our guests more easily discover the joy of food. We thrive on giving families new favorite ways to eat well and cook less, simply, and affordably. With curated in-store experiences and a streamlined assortment designed to inspire and save time, we understand the importance of food to our guests' everyday life-from snack duty at soccer practice to important family gatherings and holidays. Join our centralized Food & Beverage team where you'll partner with people from literally every area of the business. Here, you'll help dream up new ways to offer our guests a wonderful experience with the freshness, selection, and value they expect and deserve from Target.

Owned Brand Product Development & Sourcing (OBPD&S) - Join a passionate and dynamic team of project managers and partners with our inventive engineers, food scientists, and sourcing managers in Owned Brand Food & Beverage Product Design & Sourcing (OB PD&S) at Target. Together, you will concept, develop, source, and deliver our owned brand foods and beverages; everything from dry goods, snacks and beverages, to candy, fresh, frozen and dairy. Here, you'll be close to the action of dreaming up and bringing to life the Target-owned brands that surprise and gratify guests, wherever and whenever they love to shop.

As a Project Manager within OB PD&S, you will manage all phases of Owned Brand product creation and commercialization to deliver Owned Brand growth and business goals. You will drive Owned Brand business results by facilitating the cross-functional Product & Packaging creation process, including Phase & Stage-Gate management. You will be a partner with key stakeholders to align resources to project plan(s) to achieve desired outcomes. Core Accountabilities include:

Creates and owns the project plan, Stage-Gate Approach, and End to End Timing and Action (T&A)

• Responsible for establishing the optimal approach for the project, product category, and business partners to ensure efficiencies are in place and guest needs are met, including R&D and out-of-cycle activities for all Owned Brand categories.
• Partners with project team and stakeholders define project requirements, constraints, and assumptions to establish the project deliverables, resources needed, and timelines. Seeks necessary input from all functional areas.
• Responsible for establishing a single source of truth T&A that clearly outlines owners, actions, and timing from project activation through results analysis evaluation.
• Ensures project aligns with master project calendar and delivers on business objectives, strategy, and project goals.
• Conducts post launch project evaluations and uses lessons learned to identify opportunities to enhance future Stage-Gate and project plans. Shares findings with project team, pipeline management, & Sr. leaders when applicable.
• Identifies opportunities for efficiencies in future projects by leveraging analytics, reporting, & hind-sighting to drive future State-Gate and Project Plan improvements.

Cross Functional Team Leadership

• Leads and facilitates cross-functional team meetings and activities to deliver key outcomes and prepare for Stage Gate milestones.
• Partners with key stakeholders to align resources to project plan(s) to achieve desired outcomes.
• Manages and facilitates resource scoping and project plan alignment in partnership with Pipeline Management, Directors, and project team.
• Leader & facilitator of cross-functional team meetings, phase & stage-gate meetings. Builds relationships with all cross functional team members accountable to project.
• Leverages interpersonal skills to influence project teams & leaders to find quick resolution and move the project forward in a constructive manner.
• Monitors compliance of activities from Project Kick-off through Results Analysis. Oversees and tracks T&A activities, documents changes to drive accountability, and applies learnings to future projects.
• Identifies, tracks, & facilitates risk mitigation plans by anticipating potential roadblocks & risk before they occur, understand implications of risk, and escalate conclusions to the appropriate levels.
• Use problem solving & critical thinking skills to facilitate effective decision making within the cross-functional team.
• Conducts post launch project evaluation for every project and use lessons learned to identify opportunities to enhance future Stage-Gate and project plans. Share these findings with project team, pipeline management, & Sr. leaders when applicable.

Develops and Maintains Project Management tools and capabilities that accelerate effectiveness and impact of OB initiatives.

• Create State-Gate & Project Plan visibility through the use of a Project Command Center. Manages database to ensure accuracy and completion.
• Creates and manages reporting to support working teams and leadership decision making.
• Informs and maintains cross functional tools and templates utilized within product commercialization process.
• Develops tools and capabilities as needed to support in and out of cycle OB development initiatives.
• Informs continuous improvement and evolution of overall Stage Gate Operating model to drive efficiencies, agility, and enable speed to market.

About You:

• Four-year degree
• 4+ years of Project Management experience or experience running structured well-coordinated approaches to projects.
• Project Management Certificate, PMP Certification, or Agile training.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills & comfortable communicating with all levels, including Sr. level leaders.
• Excellent organizational skills & attention to detail.
• High sense of urgency, initiative, & proactive planning.
• Ability to work in collaborative team environment and manage relationships with team and key business partners.
• Strong interpersonal skills.
• Excellent diligence.
• Ability to think critically and solve problems.

Desired Skills:

• Understanding of product development
• Knowledge of Project Management systems & tools

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.

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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 candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com.

Application deadline is : 05/06/2025