Hiring Organization: Target

Post Name: Business Partner Operations

Qualifications: Graduation

Work Hours: 8

Salary: $20-$30/Hour

Locations:  Denver, USA

Job Description:

Driving the continued success of one of the world's most loved and recognized brands is a clearly capable, creative and innovative marketing organization. Target Marketing is well known for inspiring and wowing guests, and we pride ourselves on connecting guests with the products and experiences they have come to expect and deserve from Target. We study our guests to discover new needs and insights, then craft each interaction to build love for the brand and our business. We are marketers who insist on a clear and consistent understanding of our business goals, guest segments and behaviors, strategies and tactics, overcoming obstacles and measuring success. Our commitment to partnering both internally and with external agencies, media and ad technology companies gives us a broad range of capabilities, from award-winning creative work to exciting performance-based marketing. By leveraging our collective resources and fostering a healthy, supportive and open team culture, we deliver a holistically rewarding experience guests can only get at Target. Roundel is Target's entry into the media business; a first-party (people-based) data-driven ad sales business, brand-safe content environments, and evidence that our marketing programs drive business results for our clients. We operate in the spirit of trust and transparency and that the media work best when they work in everyone's best interests. Underpinning this, Roundel is here to drive business growth for our clients and redefine “value” in the industry by solving major industry challenges versus copying current industry methods of operation. We're here to fuel a key growth initiative for Target and lead the industry toward a better way to operate within the media marketplace.

As a Business Partner Operations Leader (Strategy and Operations) at Roundel, you will support the drive towards operational standardization and governance excellence across a variety of functional teams across the organisation. You will do this by bringing your guest digital, creative and media knowledge and experience to deliver data-driven problem-solving approaches. An iterative capability that works with Roundel's business strategy and planning functions to implement key initiatives within the functional teams it supports. Support business systems and operations (product operations) teams to create efficiencies across people, tools, and processes. Responsibilities include analyzing the root causes of gaps within the function, providing key data and insights into processes, tools and people. You will add input and use problem solving efforts on key projects to improve the quality of the overall output. Facilitates the process by which functional teams with Roundel plan and execute key initiatives through a formal governance process. In addition, you will participate in small and large working sessions with business stakeholders that will lead to conclusions, agreements and results.

Key Responsibility

Operational Health Reporting: Plan and design business and operational health dashboards and make recommendations to improve and support the business

Project Management: One of the key responsibilities is to lead a strategic transformation plan in line with business expectations at the strategic, tactical and operational levels. Monitor the progress of various initiatives and whether changes produce desirable results. Set measurable standards at the outset of an initiative, then compare actual results against these and regularly generate detailed update reports for management. Collaboration across teams and stakeholders: Work with multiple stakeholders across hierarchies and cross-functional teams to support best practice implementation initiatives across operations

• Change Management: Developing a roadmap and solution for implementing changes and improvements within operations
• Sharing best practices: Publish teachings and case studies
• Take responsibility for conducting quarterly business reviews for all functions and monitor progress against targets/OKRs
• Drive Operational Excellence: Compare current operational metrics to the industry and suggest improvements
• Resource Planning: Understand utilization levels of various team members and work with capacity managers to help forecast resource requirements
• Lead and consult on a variety of operational projects based on evolving business needs, often with the goal of promoting operational health and efficiency.
• Drive data governance: Work with functional leaders to actively govern operational data across teams within the TII Roundel. Collaborate with TII's functional leadership team and help lead change management to improve the operational health of the TII Roundel business
• Collaborate and work closely with their US counterparts to co-create and support strategic priorities. One of the key responsibilities will be to influence the various capability owners and build consensus and help drive change management to improve the operational health of Roundel's business.

Key requirements

• Postgraduate in any discipline
• 8-10 years of hands-on experience in data-driven decision making, transformation or process improvement
• Excellent communication (written and verbal) and presentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks and prioritize effectively
• Strong problem solving skills. Ability to break problems down into key parts, identify root causes, summarize findings and make informed decisions
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision.
• Comfortable with taking risks, leading change, supporting creativity, challenging the status quo, and comfortable with ambiguity
• Strong project and program management skills.
• Strong teamwork / relationship building and influencing skills
• critical thinking skills

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