Store Experience Print Production Manager

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 Marketing is well known for inspiring and surprising guests, and we pride ourselves on connecting them to the products and experiences they expect and love from Target. We study our guests to discover new insights, and then craft every interaction to build brand equity and enterprise sales. We are marketing experts who insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest segments and behaviors, strategies, and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring for continuous improvement. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies gives us a wide range of capabilities, from award-winning creative work to best in class retail experiences. Leveraging our collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive, and open team culture, we deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target. 

Within the Store Experience Operations team, there is an opportunity to design and deliver Target’s in store experience to position us as America’s favorite discovery destination. We are a team driven by curiosity, creativity and courage who are consumer, retail and culture obsessed. We are known for having the vision advantage to demonstrate possibilities and we find joy in the work we do together. 

As a Store Experience Operations Print Production Sr Business Partner, you are responsible for the production of In-Store Marketing elements for multiple categories and businesses while identifying and implementing improvements to both processes and outputs. Through cross-functional relationships with Store Experience Operations teams (Strategy & Design, Project Managers, Innovation & Design), logistics and print vendors, you’ll lead the charge to ensure that in-store marketing elements are produced correctly, on time and on budget.  You will also seek creative solutions to overcome obstacles and/or problem solve with team as needed.  Your attention to detail must be on point as you will direct all of the specifications to the vendors, as well as proof their work through both mechanical and on-site visits.  You will collaborate and facilitate workstreams between the Minneapolis and Target in India to optimize processes and create efficiencies. 

You will be responsible for estimating projects and keeping the team informed of estimate changes along the way.  You will need to be able to effectively communicate with partners, internally and externally, which could include understanding a creative concept from design, to communicating color direction to an agency, to requesting quotes from a vendor, to simply emailing a fellow team member.  Additional areas of responsibility focus on understanding the various store designs and hardware used within them as well as assisting with onboarding of new vendor partnerships. You will foster team dynamics through coaching and translation of print production approach and participate in C