Food & Beverage Sr. Program Manager(Remote Or Hybrid)

Job Title: Food & Beverage - Sr Program Manager

Classification: Exempt

May 2023

About This Opportunity

As a Fortune 50 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

Join Target’s Food & Beverage Strategy & Operations team - at Target, food is life. So, it’s the mission of our integrated 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 every area of the business. Here, you’ll help dream up new ways to offer our guests a reliably wonderful experience with the freshness, selection, and value they expect and deserve from Target.

As a Senior Program Manager within Target’s Food & Beverage team, you will be responsible for managing Target’s cross-functional efforts that deliver on key F&B strategies, such as building the operational capabilities to comply with the FDA’s Food Traceability regulation. This regulation requires significant changes in how vendors & Target maintain records, including capturing key data elements as food moves throughout Target’s supply chain. You will be responsible for translating requirements into key business initiatives. This includes planning, coordinating and implementing solutions across the Enterprise to improve current processes, Technology (existing and new), and reporting that enable building new capabilities to deliver on Target’s F&B strategy.

You will manage work across multiple business, technology and product teams supporting: Supply Chain (Food Supply Chain, Global Supply Chain, Direct-Store-Delivery), Merchandising, Store Operations, Food Safety Quality & Regulatory (FSQR), and other teams to deliver on Enterprise and F&B key initiatives, such as Food Traceability. You will develop and clearly communicate program objectives with cross-enterprise partners, stakeholders, and leadership. The skills required to succeed include a blend of project management, cross-functional leadership, process design, reporting & analytics, story mapping, and ability to connect across multiple enterprise teams.

Use your skills, experiences, and talents to drive critical work for the Enterprise. As a Sr. Program Manager, you will:

• Understand and translate key business objectives and strategy of Product teams, and help communicate to the cross-functional team in partnership with the Product Managers
• Influence Product sprint planning and story mapping, by communicating goals and desired outcomes
• Establish metrics and goals for Food Traceability work, building out key metrics to monitor
• Evaluate third party solutions as well as industry and competitor strategies for traceability compliance
• Develop strong connection with partners within Tech/Product teams, FSC/GSCL Operations, Merchandising, and FSQR to ensure effective program communication
• Support development of resource/technology requirements
• Develop and implement effective program management by leading cross functional teams efforts, updating roadmaps, prioritizing data/tech discovery and related resourcing, driving key decisions and updating leadership.
• Keep up with Food & Beverage industry end-to-end supply chain trends
• Partner with Product Managers to help prioritize backlog stories.

About You:

• Skills with PM and collaborative tools: (Excel, PowerPoint, Miro, Smartsheet, and program management tools)
• Experience with technology and ability to facilitate communication between business and technology teams; knowledge of agile product management methodology
• Strong adaptability and resiliency skills. The work is dynamic and the ability to change directions seamlessly is critical.
• Strong problem solving and analytical ability. The work is complex and deep.
• Strong organizational skills, and ability to manage multiple workstreams simultaneously
• 4-year Degree or relevant experience
• Strong leadership and thought leadership (influencing) skills with the ability to communicate effectively and influence others to achieve a common objective (facilitating conflicts and managing competing priorities)

Even better if:

• Demonstrated experience with large-scale process and technology efforts
• Knowledge of Target systems and processes
• Project Management Professional (PMP) experience/certification
• Experience/knowledge of Supply Chain processes and partners including Food Distribution Centers
• Lean/Six Sigma experience

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid work arrangement means the team members core role will be a blend of virtual and onsite at a Target location. A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that’s not a Target location, does not have a desk at their primary HQ work location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. The salary range is :(min) USD - (max) USD. Pay is based on several factors which may include, but are not limited to education, work experience, certifications, labor markets, etc. In addition to your salary, 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. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Target will provide reasonable accommodations (such as a qualified sign language interpreter or other personal assistance) with the application process upon your request as required to comply with applicable laws. If you have a disability and require assistance in this application process, please visit your nearest Target store or Distribution Center or reach out to Guest Services at 1-800-440-0680 for additional information.

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