Sr Data Analyst - First Mile Transportation and Supply Chain

The pay range is $88,000.00 - $158,000.00

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 ;br>
JOIN TARGET AS A LEAD DATA ANALYST - FIRST MILE TRANSPORTATION

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 reimagining the movement of products through our supply chain to meet our every changing guest demand. In this environment, Target is focused on utilizing its resources and leveraging data in new ways to better manage inventory flows to fuel enterprise growth. We are on a mission to win decisively over any competitor, with a seamless and superior guest service experience unlike any they can offer. Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we constantly come together to implement new processes in record time.

The Global Supply Chain Operations Intelligence (OI) Team rapidly develops and deploys new innovations to improve existing processes and enable new capabilities to allow for more precise and synchronized inventory flow from end to end. The OI Team leverages business experience, thought leadership, and analytical acumen to manage cross-functional problems for the global supply chain. We are looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, 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.

The First Mile Transportation Team within OI currently uses a wide variety of analytics tools including SQL, Python, R and visualization tools to work with small, sparse datasets as well as larger data platforms. This Lead Data Analyst will guide a team of Senior Data Analysts and Data Analysts to support international first-mile transportation. This person will be responsible for establishing and implementing technical strategies for the team, fostering a learning and inclusive culture to elevate the analysts, and connecting with stakeholders to build solutions beyond the stated needs.

Responsibilities:

• Establish and implement technical strategies, for example, designing code review standards and routines, hosting team standups, and influencing the engineering team.

• Foster a learning and inclusive culture to elevate the analysts, for example, inspire others to continuously improve and drive progress over perfection, innovates solutions and techniques to elevate existing best practices and teach others how to do so, identify opportunities to exploit problem-solving frameworks and lead teams through the use of them

• Seek diverse voices, show authenticity and practice vulnerability with other team members

• Work with ambiguity and provide clear directions to analysts and stakeholders

• Connect with stakeholders, build a deep understanding of business outcomes and stakeholder responsibilities to identify unstated business needs and deliver both prescriptive and proactive solutions

• Collaborate and builds a strong network beyond the immediate team to align on priorities and drive consistency

• Execute a variety of analytics initiatives including; metric identification, reason coding, hypothesis testing, time series analysis, cluster analysis, root cause analysis, scale of impact quantification, predictive analysis, business process improvement, or scenario analysis.

• In situations when reliable data does not exist, look for creative ways to obtain it

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

About You:

• 4-year degree (or equivalent experience) in business analytics, supply chain, economics or related field.

• Advanced SQL skills, can teach others and be a technical mentor

• 6+ years as a Data Analyst with strong academic performance in a quantitative field; or strong equivalent experience

• Strong problem-solving skills, can work with ambiguity and lead the team through it

• Exceptional communication skills, can hold crucial conversations

• Demonstrated leadership skills, fostering an inclusive culture where all team members can excel

• Champion of inclusivity, connection, and drive

• Passionate about developing talent as well as empowering businesses with data; proven track record of guiding a diverse team and delivering results

• Preferred to be proficient with one or more scripting languages for data analysis (R or Python).

• Preferred to be familiar with GenAI tools and how to maximize impact for stakeholders

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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