Senior Analyst-fdc Pim Ops (hybrid)

Target Target · Retail · Minneapolis, MN

This role focuses on modernizing supply chain operations within Target's Food Distribution Centers by developing a unified Flow Calendar. It involves integrating event planning, blackout planning, forecast visibility, and capacity risk into a single operating view. The Senior Analyst will lead strategy, governance, and development of scalable planning routines, influence modernization priorities, and create governance frameworks. Responsibilities include strategic execution, network governance, systems capability modernization, and cross-functional leadership to improve visibility, clarify ownership, and reduce reactive decision-making.

What you'd actually do

  1. Lead a critical capability to develop a Flow Calendar concept and integrate planning into a single network view across Food Distribution Centers.
  2. Lead the evolution of the calendar from a visibility tool into an actionable planning capability that enables proactive event movement, flow smoothing, and earlier identification of network constraints.
  3. Establish clear roles and responsibilities, define RACIs, and drive accountability standards to support pre-event planning routines.
  4. Identify and elevate capacity, throughput, and overlap risks earlier in the planning cycle by integrating event timing, forecast signals, site constraints, and major business initiatives into decision-making routines.
  5. Build and sustain a robust management system including standard work, documented SOPs, operating cadences, and scalable routines to ensure continuity and effectiveness.

Skills

Required

  • 4+ years of relevant experience in Supply Chain, Distribution Operations, Inventory Management, Planning, Program Management, Product partnership, or related field.
  • Understanding of Food Distribution Center operations, capacity planning, network flow, and cross-functional supply chain decision-making.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to connect operational signals, planning inputs, and system opportunities into practical business decisions.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and leadership levels while operating effectively in a fast-paced, evolving environment.

Nice to have

  • Experience preferred in building scalable systems, governance models, standard work, or planning routines.
  • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Analytics, or technical teams to translate business needs into usable tools, reporting, and operational capabilities.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity, defining ownership, and building structure in spaces where responsibilities, processes, and decision rights are still emerging.

What the JD emphasized

  • Experience preferred in building scalable systems, governance models, standard work, or planning routines.
  • Experience partnering with Product, Engineering, Analytics, or technical teams to translate business needs into usable tools, reporting, and operational capabilities.
  • Comfort navigating ambiguity, defining ownership, and building structure in spaces where responsibilities, processes, and decision rights are still emerging.