Strategic Intelligence Lead (Remote Eligible

Strategic Intelligence Lead

As a Strategic Intelligence Lead, you will own competitive intelligence for a set of core competitors and help leaders anticipate competitor moves and market shifts. You will build repeatable research routines, maintain a robust data toolkit, and translate complex findings into concise, decision-ready narratives. You will develop relationships and partner directly with strategy, insights, finance and functional teams to translate intelligence into recommendations, predictive indicators, and decision support.

What You'll Do:

• Act as a trusted expert influencing peers, senior leaders and the enterprise strategy
• Build and maintain a learning plan and recurring routines to deliver proactive competitor insights aligned to Target's strategic priorities.
• Extract and synthesize competitive signals from financial results, disclosures, investor communications, and investment strategies.
• Own and evolve a qualitative and quantitative toolkit (datasets, research sources, and analytical frameworks) and translate findings into actionable narratives.
• Develop forward-looking indicators to continuously monitor competitor dynamics and surface implications, risks, and opportunities.
• Lead high-visibility projects and manage cross-functional collaboration to deliver executive- and Board-ready outputs.
• Communicate insights through concise written products and compelling presentations, tailor depth, framing, and recommendations to the audience.
• Connect intelligence sources across the enterprise to improve visibility, coordination, and knowledge sharing.
• Coach junior team members, test new technologies and methodologies, and actively contribute to strengthening our intelligence and insights capabilities.

Key Relationships:

• Reports to the Director of Strategic Intelligence and Consumer Insights; collaborates closely with the Strategic Intelligence & Insights team.
• Partners with Strategy Development, Strategic Planning, Finance, and Insights functions across the organization.
• Engages leaders and teams in Merchandising, Supply Chain Management, Operations, Marketing, Digital, Roundel, Loyalty, Stores, Risk, and other functions.

About You:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, economics, or a related field.
• Graduate degree (MBA, MS, or similar).
• 5+ years of experience in the investment industry, finance, corporate development, venture capital, private equity, or similar roles.
• Experience with financial statement analysis, forecasting, financial modeling and retailer KPIs.
• Experience in, or strong understanding of, retail or CPG and competitive intelligence.
• Experience using AI-enabled and visualization tools to research, structure, analyze, and communicate insights.
• Experience analyzing syndicated and panel data from multiple sources.
• Strong analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills grounded in quantitative analysis.
• Ability to incorporate qualitative insights into holistic narratives.
• Proven ability to lead strategic projects while managing team, partner, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into clear, actionable recommendations for senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to craft compelling business stories with data.
• High curiosity and learning agility; comfortable driving results in ambiguous, fast-changing environments.