Lead Business Partner - Experiential Operations

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00 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 . Right on pace with Target’s distinctive retail brand, Target Store Operations & Enablement is continuing to transform the way it operates. Here, your work directly support and easy, inspiring and friendly guest experience through successfully developing and communicating processes, operating models, structures and technology that enable stores to deliver for our guests. Store Operations & Enablement partners across the enterprise and with field teams to understand operational opportunities, develop solutions and ensure strategies can be successfully executed in stores. We bring the store perspective forward, challenge the status quo and continuously look for ways to simplify operations, improve the team member experience and deliver for our guests.   As a Lead Business Partner, you will: • Lead the Store Operations strategy for Back to College , connecting enterprise priorities with store and guest needs and driving the work from early strategy through seasonal execution and recap. • Represent the store perspective in cross-functional business decisions and broader seasonal and enterprise work, influencing strategies across merchandising, inventory, space and presentation, supply chain, workload and store execution, and making sure store implications are understood early enough to shape decisions. • Translate complex business strategies into simple, executable store experiences , balancing sales opportunity with operational capacity, workload, timing and guest experience. • Use business performance, store feedback and field insights to identify opportunities and influence decisions, including when differentiated strategies are needed to account for meaningful differences in store demand or operating conditions. • Lead cross-functional planning routines and establish clear milestones, dependencies, decisions and accountability required to successfully deliver the season. • Build strong relationships across HQ and the field, using influence rather than authority to align partners around shared business and guest outcomes. • Maintain a strong connection to stores and field leaders through store visits, feedback routines and ongoing engagement to understand execution realities and identify opportunities to simplify or improve strategies. • Anticipate execution risks and unintended consequences, frame tradeoffs and develop solutions that protect both the enterprise strategy and store experience. • Synthesize complex inputs and clearly communicate recommendations, decisions and implications to partners and senior leaders. • Lead post-season learning and translate insights into recommendations that influence future store execution, merchandising, inventory, space and operati