Job Description
Job Overview:
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. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.
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 Global Supply Chain and Logistics is evolving at a rapid pace. We are constantly reimagining how to get the right product to the guest better, faster, and more cost effectively than before. We are operating smarter, better utilizing our resources and leveraging data driven decisions to deliver the convenience and service levels our guest demands. We are driven to win in this competitive, rapidly changing business by providing a differentiated and frictionless guest experience. Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we rapidly develop and deploy new approaches and processes that improve existing operations and enable new capabilities. We are looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, practical, and comfortable with ambiguity. Are you a critical thinker who seeks the root cause and can analyze both qualitatively and quantitatively? Are you a creative problem-solver, who simplifies problems, quickly identifies solutions, and can build and execute effective plans to address? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.
As a Sr. Global Trade Analyst, you will play a key role in optimizing Target's global supply chain while decreasing financial exposure and providing meaningful data analysis to Global Trade leadership and other key stakeholders. In this role, you will be supporting Target’s First Sale duty savings program and Global Trade Finance operations through analysis and creation of optimized reporting and financial forecasts. You will be responsible for identifying and analyzing large amounts of data, and business cases around key projects and providing consultation to leadership on the impacts to Target and Global Trade. You will leverage data to drive operational efficiencies, reduce regulatory risk and further reinforce Global Trade’s high standards of compliance.
JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- Leverage experience and emerging trends or opportunities to identify innovative strategies to support Target's import strategy.
- Drive communication with leadership and key internal and external partners. At times, may require influencing key objectives of respective work.
- Provide recommendations to leadership and stakeholders based on data analysis and experience.
- Support team by escalating business partner performance issues to drive resolution and accountability. May provide guidance, coaching and training to other team members within job area.
- Support efforts to optimize Target's supply chain and minimize financial exposure.
- Identify strategic opportunities and support key trade related or enterprise initiatives, some involving close interactions with leadership from Owned Brands, Merchandising, overseas sourcing offices, Finance, trade banks and import merchandise vendors
- Develop, maintain and analyze reporting and seek ways to strategize, innovate and improve the efficiency of operations.
- Stay current with the ever-changing and complex regulatory environment of tariffs, trade programs and import compliance.
Other Working Relationships: This position works closely with the broader Global Trade Finance team as well as Global Trade Systems, Brokerage and Compliance teams. Other internal relationships include Owned Brands, Merchandising, Finance, Treasury and Operational Intelligence teams. External partnerships include import trade banks, consolidators, brokers, and vendors.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience
- 5 years of industry experience in global trade or finance
- Excellent research, problem solving skills and demonstrated ability to think strategically
- Ability to analyze complex data sets with accuracy and precision; develop and utilize analytics tools
- Highly proficient at Excel/Smartsheet
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to take the lead on strategic projects and enterprise-wide initiatives that include interactions with Sr. Leadership and teams across the organization
- Ability to proactively identify risks and downstream impacts
- Self-motivated and proven track record of demonstrating initiative and working independently
- Ability to balance data with experience to make decisions and move quickly
- Ability to indirectly lead and influence others
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.
Benefits Eligibility
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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 [email protected].Application deadline is : 07/03/2025