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Principal Strategist – Bismarck, USA

Right here, you’ll work with inner partners and external groups in a wide variety of roles. You will also have the opportunity to expand your skills across our brand superpowers, which include customer & enterprise insights, strategic problem‑solving, strategy execution, experimentation, and scaling new initiatives.

Do you love the idea of shaping Target’s long‑term strategy grounded in customer and industry insights? Are you a champion for rigor and structured processes to ensure thorough strategic decision‑making? Can you bring passion and big ideas to the table to create momentum for new commercial opportunities? If so, bring your experience to the playbook and help move Target forward.

As a Principal Strategist, you’ll lead a team that develops 3‑12‑month business initiatives for the company. This role blends consulting‑style engagements with modern business design, focusing on uncovering growth blockers, identifying opportunities, and creating actionable plans.

You will be expected to understand retail trends, competitors, and customers to shape standards and concepts that meet future demands in the fast‑evolving, multi‑channel retail landscape, both locally and internationally.

You’ll also oversee and drive the execution of multiple projects through Mission Managers and Analysts, ensuring quality of design, problem‑solving, execution, synthesis, and communication of results.

Managing relationships with senior leaders across merchandising, marketing, and customer insights will enable you to influence strategic commercial decisions. In collaboration with strategy & innovation leaders, you’ll prioritize your team’s resources and grow the organization’s knowledge base in one or more areas.

Middle obligations of this role are defined within the process description. Job duties may also shift to accommodate business needs.

• 4+years of work experience after graduate education in corporate strategy leadership roles, including assessment of business strategies, portfolio evaluation, problem‑solving, and development of multi‑year commercial plans; or 4+years of prior experience in specialized engagement/project leadership within a consulting firm.