Director Credit Risk - Collections Strategy

Target Target · Retail · Brooklyn Park, MN

Director of Credit Risk for Collections Strategy at Target, focusing on managing collections for credit card products. This role involves leading a team of quantitative data analysts to develop and execute strategies, own P&L, perform data analysis, segmentation, predictive modeling, and reporting. The position requires partnership with internal and external stakeholders to mitigate risk, minimize losses, and enhance recoveries, while also communicating strategies to senior leaders and regulators.

What you'd actually do

  1. Create and execute strategies to manage the Collections business of Target’s Circle Credit Card and Co-Branded Target Circle Mastercard Credit Products by leading a team of highly quantitative data analysts.
  2. Own all aspects of strategy, P&L, and model development including data analysis, segmentation, predictive analytics, requirement generation, validation and ongoing reporting and validation.
  3. Responsible for tracking portfolio performance and recommending changes to collections strategies and share learnings that refine underwriting credit strategies and models based on analysis and experience.
  4. Through partnership with internal teams such as Underwriting, Finance, Operations, and Fraud Prevention; combined with external partners such as our issuing and co-brand partners and various external service providers, you will design solutions to mitigate portfolio risk, minimize losses, and enhance recoveries while driving loyalty to Target.
  5. Utilizing your strong communication skills, you will articulate the benefits and trade-offs of your strategies to internal partners and senior leaders as well as external partners such as TD Bank and federal regulators.

Skills

Required

  • credit risk collections
  • financial services experience
  • predictive analytics
  • statistical techniques
  • credit card consumer lending
  • project management
  • written communication skills
  • verbal communication skills
  • team leadership
  • relationship building
  • data analysis

Nice to have

  • MS in Economics
  • MS in Statistics
  • MS in Engineering
  • MS in Computer Science

What the JD emphasized

  • model development
  • predictive analytics
  • federal regulators