Sr Product Manager - Merchandising, Assortment Planning

As a Senior Product Manager leading Planit’s Assortment Planning capability, you will help deliver Target’s connected Merchant experience. This role focuses on building a centralized source of truth for merchant and round table assortment intent and change management, working across product, engineering, UX, and business stakeholders as Planit scales beginning in 2027.

Role Focus

You will own product strategy and execution for Planit’s Assortment Planning capability, aligned to business outcomes. The work supports the Assortment Lineplan and strengthens the unified planning experience for Buyers and Planners, including centralized management of assortment intent and changes. You will partner with merchandise buying and planning product managers and cross-functional product teams throughout rollout.

Responsibilities

• Develop comprehensive product strategy, roadmap, and OKRs for the assigned product, aligning product direction and priorities to business needs and desired outcomes.
• Support delivery of Planit’s connected merchant experience, including the Assortment Lineplan, to create and enhance a centralized source of truth for assortment intent and changes.
• Apply product knowledge, customer feedback, and relevant data to evaluate value, build business cases, and prioritize product direction and outcomes.
• Build and maintain the product roadmap and backlog, including customer themes, epics, and stories, prioritizing the highest-impact work for the product team and stakeholders.
• Lead cross-functional delivery with Engineering, UX, and business stakeholders to build product capabilities that meet customer needs and support connected Merchandising experiences.
• Act as the product voice to key stakeholders, ensuring their needs are understood and the product team has direction, alignment, and support; maintain awareness of the market to inform decisions.
• Promote open information exchange and viewpoints, help drive high standards and urgency, remove obstacles using available resources, and partner across product teams to achieve shared goals.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years of product management experience.
• Understanding of data, integrations, architecture, and system boundaries.
• Deep domain expertise in merchandising, including buying, planning, inventory management, pricing, and supply chain.
• Ability to simplify complex business processes into intuitive application workflows.
• Strong understanding of integrations, data flows, and system dependencies.
• Experience leading cross-functional execution across product, data, science, and business teams in matrixed environments.
• Executive-level communication skills and experience operating effectively in ambiguity.
• Strong prioritization and time management skills in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to influence without authority.
• Experience in agile product development environments.

Planit’s Centralized Merchandising Planning Application

• Provides a unified experience where Buyers and Planners build and optimize financially viable, guest-relevant assortments.
• Connects Long-Range Strategy, Merchandise Financial Planning, Assortment Planning & Optimization, and Decision Intelligence into a single integrated planning environment.
• Embeds data, automation, and intelligence into core workflows.

Target Product Team Expectations

• Product teams are accountable for business outcomes enabled through technology and analytic products that are easy to use, easily maintained, and highly reliable.
• Teams maintain one shared backlog that includes product, technology, and design work.

Work Arrangement

• Hybrid/Flex for Your Day arrangement based on Target’s needs.
• The core role requires work both onsite at Target HQ in Minneapolis, MN and virtually, depending on role, team, and daily tasks.
• Work duties cannot be performed outside the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Compensation

USD 115,000 - 206,000 per year.

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
• Financial and education support for well-being and beyond

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ADA Accommodations

• Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities in compliance with state and federal laws.
• If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, contact [email protected].
• Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

Location

Minneapolis, MN (hybrid).