Marketing Project Manager, Design Partnerships

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.  

Fueling the continued success of one of the world’s most beloved and recognized brands is a distinctly capable, creative, and innovative Marketing organization. Target Marketing is well known for inspiring and surprising guests, and we pride ourselves on connecting them to the products and experiences they expect and deserve from Target. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights, and then craft every interaction to build brand love. We are market experts who insist on a clear and cohesive understanding of our business objectives, guest segments and behaviors, strategies, and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies gives us a wide range of capabilities, from award-winning creative work to exciting and unique promotional marketing. Leveraging our collective assets and fostering a healthy, supportive and open team culture, we deliver a holistically gratifying experience that guests can only get at Target.  

The Project Manager, Design Partnerships ladders into the Creative Curation Team within Target Creative. The team creates, develops, and executes creative collaborations across the company that involve product co-creation and marketing. They champion and uphold the vision of the collaboration throughout the process with an enterprise view and influence all partners to create a curated guest experience.  

As a Project Manager, you’ll be a driving force in our Design Partnerships team as the key connector, source and driver of project management across the entire design partnership project and multi-channel campaign. Your core responsibility is planning and driving the strategic implementation of each project and process. You will partner and consult with various marketing and business functions on project coordination, establishing and communicating detailed timing and deliverables, managing product milestones and logistics, and helping to set clear expectations with partners. You’ll build connections across the organization and within projects, mitigate risks and roadblocks, and communicate roles and responsibilities throughout the project workflow. You are responsible for the financial budget of the project, including daily, monthly, quarterly and annual budget management, and communication to our budget captain. Your commitment to collaboration and driving results will rally internal and external partners across all functions to plan and deliver a flawless guest experience that inspires guests to choose Target.  

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. Project Manager, Design Partnerships on the Creative Curation Team responsibilities include: 

• Drive the planning and execution of partnership projects by offering insights, connection, and influence  

• Create and orchestrate an execution plan to deliver on holistic project strategy, collaborating with key partners and optimizing processes and tools from project inception to post-launch 

• Establish and own marketing timing and action across all channels and functions, internally and externally, and coordination of deliverables, inclusive of meeting prep for designer and leader reviews, and leading CFTs 

• Lead shoot prep, including driving sample preparations, consulting on product priorities, coordinating asset needs, and facilitating reviews  

• Drive post production creative routing, approval, and delivery process 

• Own project budget management and marketing sample management processes, including vendor/designer payment processing 

About you: 

• Four-year degree or equivalent work experience 

• 3+ years of related work experience in project management, marketing experience preferred  

• Proven experience in project management, delivering strong results managing and executing multiple complex projects simultaneously  

• Excellent communication, relationship management, and influence/negotiation skills  

• Collaborative team player, ability to co-create with passion 

• Exceptional time management, organization and planning skills to drive others to achieve results on a timeline 

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills 

• Ability to drive operational excellence 

• Self-starter with demonstrated curiosity that thrives in time sensitive, fast-paced environments, with ability to dive into challenges and ambiguity 

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target’s needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member’s core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.