About This Opportunity

Help shape one of the world's strongest brands. Develop innovative, engaging guest experiences that help increase brand awareness, solidify guest loyalty and ultimately drive sales.

The Program Management team drives creative execution and oversight for digital vendor programs from concept through launch. The team works with Account Management, Copy, Art, Quality Assurance, Accessiblity, Publishing, Media & UI Engineering teams to ensure programs meet or exceed vendor, client and Target expectations. The Senior Project Management Analyst is the day-to-day contact and relationship manager responsible for implementing programs tactics.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As Sr. Creative Project Management Analyst, Marketing, you'll:

• Program manage the marketing/advertising campaigns that helps us engage in a dialogue with Target guests

• Act as the single-point-of-contact between Account Service team & Target in India Marketing teams ( Copy, Art, Quality Assurance, Accessiblity, Publishing, Media & UI Engineering ) and lead projects thru the entire concept & activation phase

• Be a thought and execution leader in marketing/advertising area and have the ability to closely work with and drive the team towards superior creative execution

• Maintain deep digital expertise in assigned businesses/categories, including requirements and constraints, necessary to assess project feasibility and create solutions to complex problems.

• Review & analyze project requirements, conduct campaign/creative briefing meeting, facilitate ideation and brainstorming sessions

• Be responsible for initiation, planning, execution, monitor and closure activities for creative projects

• Ensure that the creative fulfills the experience, business objective, is accurate as asked in the brief prior to delivery, and monitor & control the transition of projects in each milestone

• Identify, research, analyze and manage risks & interdependencies within projects / systems / resource changes and formulate appropriate plans

• Play the role of in-house SME for a specific category and resolve queries for cross-functional teams such as Copy/Art/Publishing/Dev/QA teams

• Create and maintain appropriate documentation, prepare & share status reports / dashboards to appropriate stakeholders at set intervals

• Delve into effectiveness of the program and report back findings

• Contribute towards Creative project management process improvements, documentation of processes, standards and guidelines

• Be a go-getter who should be able to operate independently without the need of too much guidance

• Take initiative to lead and assist with special projects which could either be self-identified or assigned

• Assist in solving challenges & delivering innovative new experiences with internal & external partners

• Apply problem solving skills and think critically to create opportunities for innovation

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Communication Management or equivalent educational qualification

• 8+ years total experience with 4+ years as Creative Project Manager/ Account Manager /Client Servicing in the Digital space with ability to manage and execute multiple projects.

• Experience with a large marketing / advertising firm or directly with a corporation

• Exposure to multichannel marketing creative

• Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.

• Ability to share actionable recommendations in a concise and persuasive manner.

• Ability to build and maximize relationships with partners.

• Proficient in client management across geographies

• Strategic thinker, strong initiative and attentive to detail

• Ability to work in a fast-paced, ambiguous environment

• Understanding of digital and social platforms.

• Creative ambassador and steward of the Target brand

• Passionate about creative and guest experience

Benefits

About Target®

Expect the Best. At Target, we have a vision: to become the best – the best culture and brand, the best place for growth and the company with the best reputation. We offer an inclusive, collaborative and energetic work environment that rewards those who perform. We deliver engaging, innovative and on-trend experiences for our team members and our guests. We invest in our team members’ futures by developing leaders and providing a breadth of opportunities for professional development. It takes the best to become the best, and we are committed to building a team that does the right thing for our guests, shareholders, team members and communities.

Minneapolis-based Target Corporation serves guests at stores nationwide and at Target.com. Target is committed to providing a fun and convenient shopping experience with access to unique and highly differentiated products at affordable prices. Since 1946, the corporation has given 5 percent of its income through community grants and programs like Take Charge of Education®.