Sr Manager, Corporate Development

Target Target · Retail · Minneapolis, MN

Senior Manager, Corporate Development role at Target, focusing on evaluating and executing strategic acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, partnerships, and divestitures. Responsibilities include performing valuation analyses, building financial models, developing business cases, and managing deal execution to support Target's inorganic growth strategy.

What you'd actually do

  1. evaluating and executing the company’s strategic acquisitions, investments, joint ventures, partnerships and divestitures that support and accelerate Target’s strategy
  2. perform valuation analyses and build financial models to support business cases in partnership with internal and external partners
  3. developing industry and company overviews to identify potential external partners to further engage with
  4. project manage initiatives that the Corporate Development team is leading and support other projects led by other internal teams

Skills

Required

  • Four-year degree, preferably in Finance, or equivalent work experience
  • 5+ years of corporate development, investment banking, private equity, and/or other transaction experience
  • Experience developing high level, detailed business cases
  • Comfort with ambiguity and is a solution-oriented, innovative and creative problem solver
  • Excellent communication skills
  • Strong collaboration skills
  • Strong decision making, project management, financial analysis and structuring skills, including discounted cash flow modeling and in-depth understanding of financial statements

Nice to have

  • MBA/CFP/CPA/MA preferred

What the JD emphasized

  • 5+ years of corporate development, investment banking, private equity, and/or other transaction experience
  • Experience developing high level, detailed business cases
  • Strong decision making, project management, financial analysis and structuring skills, including discounted cash flow modeling and in-depth understanding of financial statements