Lead Project Mgr Supply Chain Food and Beverage

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:
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers.

Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together.

Target’s Food Supply Chain is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how we get the right product to the right guest even better, faster and more cost effectively than before. We are becoming more intelligent, automated and algorithmic in our decision-making, so that no matter how guests shop—in stores or on Target.com—we deliver the convenience and immediate gratification they demand and deserve. We are on a mission to win decisively over any competitor, with a seamless and superior guest service experience unlike any they can offer. 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, commits to a plan and then positively influences others to execute it? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

A role on the Network Strategy Team within Food Supply Chain means being relentlessly focused on how we can optimize our temperature-controlled network to become more cost effective and improve the guest experience. Our teams work with the agility our mission requires, and we constantly come together to implement new processes in record time. We’re looking for exceptional people who are proactive, creative, independent, innovative, risk-savvy and comfortable working in varying degrees of ambiguity. You will work cross-functionally with experts from across Food & Beverage, Global Supply Chain and Logistics, Technology and Stores to support co-creation of solutions to reduce labor cost, improve speed and quality for replenishment activities, and help define our future network design. You will help scope a broad set of initiatives and ideas to help identify the specific problem, potential impact, and the resources needed to solve; you’ll also be actively engaged in developing solutions alongside experts from across the organization including Field Operations, Operating Solutions Design, Store Operations, Target Technology Services, Inventory Management and Data Science.

As a Lead Project Manager, you will own multiple workstreams within simultaneous projects by working on developing standardized reporting, dashboards, metrics, and processes to support multiple concurrent Food Supply Chain Activation projects at Target. This role will provide an ideal opportunity to work within a highly collaborative, cross functional team managing across leadership and operational teams. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. This position will report to the Director of Food and Beverage Supply Chain Project Management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead large scale Food Supply Chain projects including new site launches, operational capability enhancements, and Warehouse Management System (WMS) implementations and upgrades.
• Develop, test, update and maintain project’s Owner Furnished Equipment (OFME) management tools.
• Monitor and track end to end procurement progress of equipment and supplies for projects with budgets of up to $500M+
• Analyze Smartsheet reports and provide recommendations to proactively resolve issues regarding procurement, project equipment and supplies deliveries, and vendor performance.
• Support Activation project team with managing and tracking budgets, equipment procurement and deliveries by developing and using standard tools.
• Work with cross organizational teams to develop dashboards, and reports to support the standardization of project management across Activation teams.
• Communicate and validate 3rd party vendor scope requirements with relevant stakeholders and support the management of 3rd party vendors supporting Activations across multiple projects
• Understand the ripple effect of decisions and gather inputs from impacted parties to make data driven decisions
• Provide project level inputs to cross functional teams and program management
• Collaborate effectively across all internal and external stakeholders including vendors, internal engineering team, operations & facility teams
• Support the roll out and training of project teams on standard tools and systems across Activation
• Assist projects with deployment of OFME and other project management tools
• Collect lessons learned from partner teams and improve process, dashboards, and reports

About You:

• Ability to problem solve, create project plans, and deliver results
• Desire to learn new capabilities and enable others to do the same
• Willing to take risks, challenge the status quo and work under ambiguous circumstances
• Natural ability to speak and write effectively at all organizational levels.
• Proven ability to use data to measure and improve operational outcomes
• Experience developing reports, dashboards, and standard project management tools
• Experience developing training materials
• Highly organized
• Experience with project management strategies required for complex and dynamic projects with very short lead times.
• Capable of working with minimal supervision or direction.
• Proficiency with standard project planning software applications
• Bachelor’s degree in a Supply Chain, Project Management, Design & Construction or at least 6 years of relevant experience

This position may be considered for a Remote or Hybrid (known internally at Target as "Flex for Your Day") work arrangement based on Target's needs.  A Remote work arrangement means the team member works full-time from home or an alternate location that's not a Target location, does not have a desk at a Target location and may travel to HQ up to 4 times a year.  A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role may be performed either remote or onsite at a Target location depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Benefits Eligibility

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.  

Application deadline is : 04/03/2026