Target

Director, Enterprise Sustainability Strategic Initiatives

Target

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Minneapolis • Minnesota • United States

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Salary

💰 $135,000 - $243,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Shaping and advancing Target’s enterprise sustainability strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, financial considerations, and critical external stakeholder expectations
  • Translating external sustainability, policy, and market trends into forward-looking strategic insight, surfacing risks, opportunities, and implications for enterprise decision-making and long-term value creation
  • Framing ambiguous or emerging sustainability issues, define problem statements, assess options and tradeoffs, and drive alignment toward decisions that balance ambition, financial realities, and execution pathways
  • Leading high-priority, cross-cutting strategic initiatives that span multiple sustainability priorities and business functions, including circularity, resilience, sustainable innovation, and others as required
  • Partnering with Corporate Strategy, Finance, and business teams to embed sustainability into enterprise strategy, planning, and investment decisions, driving clarity, focus, and enterprise alignment across initiatives
  • Translating sustainability priorities into clear business cases and strategic narratives that enable informed tradeoffs and investment decisions
  • Preparing executive and Board-ready materials that clearly articulate sustainability strategy, implications, and recommended paths forward
  • Elevating the strategic capability of the Enterprise Sustainability team by strengthening problem definition, enterprise framing, and executive readiness across workstreams
  • Leading through influence across a complex, matrixed organization, aligning stakeholders and advancing initiatives without direct authority

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree (4 years) or equivalent professional experience; MBA preferred
  • 10+ years of professional experience in sustainability, enterprise strategy, management consulting, or related strategic roles
  • Background in consulting, enterprise strategy, transformation, or internal advisory roles preferred
  • Deep, hands-on expertise across environmental and social sustainability topics, including climate, responsible sourcing, ESG, and stakeholder expectations
  • Experience leading or advising on circularity, sustainable product and materials strategies, or business model innovation in a commercial context is strongly preferred
  • Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives in a large, matrixed organization
  • Strong ability to synthesize complexity and ambiguity into clear, executive-level insights, options, and recommendations
  • Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including experience preparing executive- and Board-ready materials
  • Strong organizational awareness and proven ability to influence without formal authority across senior stakeholders
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments
  • High degree of judgment, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
  • Experience in retail, consumer goods, or similarly complex operating environments preferred
Benefits
  • comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
  • 401(k)
  • employee discount
  • short term disability
  • long term disability
  • paid sick leave
  • paid national holidays
  • paid vacation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
sustainability strategyenvironmental sustainabilitysocial sustainabilitycircularitysustainable innovationESGbusiness model innovationmanagement consultingstrategic initiativesanalytical skills
Soft Skills
communication skillsinfluence without authorityorganizational awarenessproblem-solving skillsability to synthesize complexityexecutive readinessinterpersonal skillsjudgmentdiscretionleadership
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBA