Sr Manager Enterprise Network Strategy - Network Planning & Design (Hybrid)

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00

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 .

Target Global Supply Chain and Logistics is evolving at a rapid pace. We are constantly reimagining how to get the right product to the guest better, faster, and more cost effectively than before. We are operating smarter, better utilizing our resources and leveraging data driven decisions to deliver the convenience and service levels our guest demands. We are driven to win in this competitive, rapidly changing business by providing a differentiated and frictionless guest experience.

Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we rapidly develop and deploy new approaches and processes that improve existing operations and enable new capabilities. We are looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, practical, 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.

As a Sr Manager Enterprise Network Strategy, you will lead the business value and capability strategy for complex network decisions, partnering with Network Planning & Design, Finance, Operations, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Product, Data Science, Engineering, and other enterprise teams. You will own the translation of network design scenarios to measurable business outcomes, evaluate tradeoffs and risk, and develop decision-ready business cases that enable senior leaders to prioritize investments and capabilities. These recommendations will shape Target’s future-state network design and will be anchored to driving improvements across guest service, reliability, speed, cost-to-serve, inventory productivity, and long-term growth.

This position requires strong analytical skills, structured problem-solving, strategic thought leadership, and the ability to influence cross-functional teams through data-driven insights. You will be responsible for driving the network design recommendations and ensuring the relevant cross-functional teams are aligned at all levels of the organization.

In this role you will:

Future Network Vision & Capability Strategy

• •Lead the development and evaluation of future-state network design scenarios, including network topology, node roles and locations, flow paths, inventory positioning, capacity, and service/reliability strategies across replenishment, fresh, fulfillment & last mile, indirect, and reverse networks.
• •Define the analytical approach and success measures for network design, ensuring modeling and analysis evaluate key tradeoffs across service, cost, inventory, capacity, speed, reliability, resiliency, and operational performance and answer the business questions required to inform future network decisions.
• •Translate network design scenarios into measurable enterprise outcomes, defining the value drivers, KPIs, assumptions, constraints, and decision criteria required to compare alternatives and quantify business and financial impact.
• •Lead the identification, evaluation, and prioritization of capabilities required to enable the future-state network, including physical infrastructure, process, technology, data, automation, inventory, and planning capabilities across network domains.
• •Develop recommendations that connect future network architecture, flow strategies, and enabling capabilities to enterprise priorities, required investments, key dependencies, and implementation sequencing.

Business Case & Value Development

• •Lead business case development with Finance and cross-functional partners, including operating and capital impacts, ROI, NPV, IRR, inventory impacts, service benefits, risk, and sensitivity analysis.
• •Establish consistent methodologies for valuing benefits that may extend beyond traditional supply chain expense, including service, reliability, inventory productivity, speed, and other guest and business outcomes.
• •Quantify tradeoffs across guest service, reliability, speed, inventory, capacity, transportation, operating expense, capital, resiliency, and implementation complexity to enable fact-based decision-making.
• •Translate strategic alternatives into clear financial implications, value creation opportunities, investment requirements, risks, and sensitivities.

Cross-Functional Leadership & Enterprise Alignment

• •Partner across Supply Chain, Finance, Stores, Digital, Merchandising, Inventory Management, Technology, and other enterprise teams to develop an integrated view of future network needs, opportunities, and tradeoffs.
• •Lead cross-functional alignment on network and capability recommendations, balancing functional priorities with enterprise objectives and long-term network strategy.
• •Drive clarity on key decisions, dependencies, ownership, and sequencing required to advance future-state network capabilities from strategy through execution.
• •Influence and align leaders at all levels of the organization by translating complex network, operational, and financial considerations into clear choices and recommendations
• •Present recommendations, financial implications, risks, sensitivities, and key decisions to senior leaders to enable informed investment and strategic decisions.

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

About You:

• •B.S. in Supply Chain Management, Industrial Engineering, Business, Finance, Analytics, or related field; Master’s degree or MBA preferred
• •5+ years of experience in supply chain, logistics, network strategy, operations strategy, finance, or related fields
• •Ability to use AI tools responsibly to improve productivity, analysis, documentation, and decision making.
• •Strong financial and analytical acumen with experience translating complex strategies and operational changes into quantified business value and investment recommendations
• •Strong analytical and data-driven problem-solving skills, with demonstrated experience leading complex analyses, working with large and diverse datasets, and translating data into actionable insights and strategic recommendations
• •Proven ability to solve complex supply chain problems across service, cost, inventory, capacity, reliability, speed, resiliency, and operational performance
• •Experience building strong cross-functional partnerships and influencing stakeholders to drive alignment and support strategic decision-making
• •Ability to influence senior leaders with clear, practical, data-driven recommendations and effectively communicate tradeoffs, risks, and decisions
• •Comfortable operating in ambiguity, simplifying complex problems, challenging assumptions, and driving results independently
• •Strong communication skills, including the ability to synthesize co