Job description
As a Director, SPT, you will lead, coach and develop a team of 35 to 50 Team Members (including people leaders) in owning End-to-End Execution of Adjacencies and Planograms at Target in India. Your responsibilities will include, but will not be limited to:
- Team:
- Lead teams to develop and drive timing and actions, lead their cross-functional team (CFT), and hold others accountable to key deadlines and quality expectations
- Actively collaborate with global partners to influence strategy execution timing and educate global teams on the impact of their decisions towards ensuring high quality execution.
- Lead planning & improvements for hiring, training, coaching, & recognition.
- Ensure that team members are highly motivated and perform to their full potential by:
- Providing insightful, motivating and constructive feedback to the team, helping them gain insights about themselves, their effectiveness and the organization.
- Help the team integrate their goals and capabilities with the organizations emerging needs.
- Identify and attract key individuals with the critical capabilities needed by the organization.
- Define and develop clear roles, responsibilities and routines across the global team to ensure flawless execution of space and presentation projects
- Business:
- Influence pyramid space and presentation strategies
- Establish and grow relationships with key decision-makers within the cross-functional team, both in Target in India and Minneapolis to drive strategic business initiatives.
- Drive cross pyramid collaboration to grow contextual knowledge, understand downstream impacts of the teams decisions and work outputs
- Operations:
- Develop and execute short term (12 months) and long term (24 months) strategies across the SPT teams to ensure Operational Excellence
- Lead across other pyramids in the organization (like Planning, Pricing and Promotions, Inventory Management, Store Design etc)
- Work with product management leadership to influence the product roadmap
- Focus on financials, improve the effectiveness of the team by introducing new processes, systems and procedures and or improving existing processes.
About you:
- Four-year degree or equivalent experience
- 17+ years of overall experience, preferably at least some in brick-and-mortar retail especially in Inventory and/or merchandise planning and/or visual Merchandising and/or space and presentation and other related core merchandising domains.
- Strong team leadership (5+ years minimum), ability to be a leader of leaders
- Ability to engage and inspire others, co-create organizational roadmaps
- Demonstrated commitment to team and belonging
- Excellent planning, organizational, and data-driven decision-making skills
- Ability to influence and ideate thoughts, challenge status quo with global leadership across pyramid teams
- Exceptional communication skills, both verbal as well as written
- Experience fostering a culture of collaboration and teamwork across organizational boundaries.
- Responsive and resilient to changes in a dynamic competitive retail environment
- Ability to demonstrate courage, think critically, and drive for results
