Sr Data Analyst

The pay range is $87,000.00 - $156,000.00

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 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. 

Behind one of the world’s best loved brands is a uniquely capable and brilliant team of data scientists, engineers and analysts. The Target Data & Analytics team creates the tools and data products to sustainably educate and enable our business partners to make great data-based decisions at Target. We help develop the technology that personalizes the guest experience, from product recommendations to relevant ad content. We’re also the source of the data and analytics behind Target’s Internet of Things (iOT) applications, fraud detection, Supply Chain optimization and demand forecasting. We play a key role in identifying the test-and-measure or A/B test opportunities that continuously help Target improve the guest experience, whether they love to shop in stores or at Target.com.

A role with our Digital Analytics and Insights group means being part of a team that enables data-driven decision-making to enhance business performance in the modern retail landscape. 

As a Sr Data Analyst, you will:

• Partner with Category and Marketplace leaders to identify opportunities for improvement and measure performance of strategies implemented

• Create self-service reporting using a visualization tool (Domo/Looker/PowerBI) that is actionable and easy for business partners to use

• Identify root cause of business performance & communicate findings to leadership

• Work cross-functionally across Digital (Marketing, Product, Item, & Site Experience) to drive top-line financial performance

• Partner with data engineering team to build new capabilities that will enhance our reporting and business knowledge

The ideal candidate should be comfortable working with large datasets, building scalable reports, and simplifying complex data to enable efficient decision-making. If you are passionate about analytics, can work independently as well as in a team, and have a keen eye for identifying opportunities through data, you will thrive in our BIA team! 

About you:  

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience

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

• Experience working in Digital/Clickstream data

• Advanced SQL experience writing complex queries

• Intermediately accomplished with Python or R

• Solid problem solving, analytical skills, data curiosity, data mining, Data creation and consolidation

• Support conclusions with a clear, understandable story that leverages descriptive statistics, basic inferential statistics, and data visualizations

• Willingness to ask questions about business objectives and the measurement needs for a project workstream, and be able to measure objectives & key results

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to speak to both business and technical teams, and translate i