Lead Project Manager - Disaster Recovery

The pay range is $115,000.00 - $206,000.00 Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits . About us Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here . About the role As a Lead Project Manager, you will lead complex, cross-functional programs that strengthen technology reliability, improve visibility and management of technical risk, and increase Target’s ability to recover critical business capabilities. You will bring strategic direction, advanced program leadership, technical and business acumen, and disciplined execution to work spanning teams and organizational levels. This role focuses on Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, technical risk, and recovery validation through tabletop exercises and other evidence-based practices. You will create the program structure, governance, coordination, and visibility needed to move from application-centric documentation toward dependency-aware, executable, validated, and measurable recovery capability. Principal duties and responsibilities • Lead the strategy, roadmap, and operating model for Disaster Recovery, capability-based recovery, and technical risk visibility across priority Reliability programs and business capabilities. • Connect application-level recovery planning to end-to-end business capability recovery, including objectives, dependencies, ownership, sequencing, playbooks, validation evidence, readiness, and residual risk. • Plan and operationalize tabletop exercises and other recovery-validation activities, translating findings into prioritized, owned work with target dates, validation methods, and completion evidence. • Establish practical governance and a shared view of known recovery and technical risks, actions, decisions, and escalation needs while keeping technical ownership with engineering teams. • Lead complex cross-functional programs through strategy, integrated planning, delivery, and measurable outcomes, managing dependencies, resources, tradeoffs, and risk. • Build trusted partnerships, remove roadblocks, create executive-ready reporting, and coach stakeholders to strengthen recovery planning, risk management, and execution. Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. About you • Four-year degree or equivalent experience. • Five or more years of experience leading Disaster Recovery programs, recovery planning and testing, technology resilience, or closely related work. • Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional programs with senior leader visibility and applying program-management practices across scope, schedule, resources, communications, dependencies, change, and risk. • Ability to translate technical risks, recovery dependencies, and business capability impacts into clear plans, decisions, executive communications, and measura