Associate Planner

Associate Planner

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 in Planning means being in charge of the financials and forecasting for one of Target’s businesses. Here, you will conduct comparative analysis of business results and trends to provide insights that inform the Inventory team’s work to ensure that product supports projected sales. Acting as the hub between Merchandising and Supply Chain, you will create a financial link between these two essential groups and have a voice in some of the most important decisions from a financial strategy standpoint.

As an Associate Planner, you will develop the business strategies that ensure product availability and profitable sales. Your work will make a positive impact by analyzing category results and identifying insights and opportunities across key financial metric including sales, margin and ROI. You will determine item-level investments to support category financial plans as a part of pre-season vendor commitments. Through business analysis and clustering, you will help identify segmentation opportunities to drive localization strategies. Your skills will support strategic decisions about how we forecast sales and inventory needs to deliver guests with the products they want most.

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

About you:
• Four-year degree or equivalent work experience
• 1+ years of relevant experience
• Demonstrated leadership and decision-making skills
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills
• Ability to work well within varying degrees of ambiguity

Experience Level

Mid Level