Sr Product Ops Analyst

About us:
As a Fortune 50 company with more than 400,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America's leading retailers. Joining Target means promoting a culture of mutual care and respect and striving to make the most meaningful and positive impact. Becoming a Target team member means joining a community that values different voices and lifts each other up. Here, we believe your unique perspective is

important, and you'll build relationships by being authentic and respectful.

Overview about TII:
At Target, we have a timeless purpose and a proven strategy. And that hasn’t happened by accident. Some of the best minds from different backgrounds come together at Target to redefine retail in an inclusive learning environment that values people and delivers world-class outcomes. That winning formula is especially apparent in Bengaluru, where Target in India operates as a fully integrated part of Target’s global team and has more than 4,000 team members supporting the company’s global strategy and operations.

Role overview:

As a Sr Product Ops Analyst, you will be responsible for creating measurements, driving enhancements and insight generation by identifying areas of improvement in products through exploratory data analysis monitoring and tracking products and collaborating with Product Owners to identify and fix product issues. This role will be a key component in the execution of Product’s goals and objectives.

As a Sr Product Ops Analyst, you will build critical reports for product, perform data analysis to identify new opportunities, collaborate with Data Engineering and Data Science teams on setting up new process/jobs, activate new models, own and maintain datasets and dashboards for the product. You will build and monitor the required systems that will be used by both Product team and stakeholders to keep track of key product and business metrics. You will also need to analyze key trends to identify potential product issues and improvement to the product. It is critical that you are comfortable with a test and learn mindset to achieve this.

You will encourage the open exchange of information and viewpoints, as well as inspire others to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while committing to the organization's direction. You will foster sense of urgency to achieve goals and leverage resources to overcome unexpected obstacles.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Primary function:

Responsible for driving enhancements and insight generation by identifying areas of improvement in products through exploratory data analysis. Monitoring and tracking products and collaborating with Product Owners to identify and fix product issues.

Principal duties & responsibilities:

Build critical reports specific to existing data to monitor critical metrics.
Perform data analysis to identify new opportunities to improve overall metrics.
Owning and driving the complicated problems, breaking them down into smaller tasks and leading acting as a team lead and mentoring team members from technical standpoint.
Collaborating with Data Engineering and data science teams on setting up new process/jobs, owning and maintaining the datasets & dashboards.
Support in creating forecasts, designing inventory optimization strategies and leverage technology to ensure our inventory is available at the right time.
Partner with cross functional teams such as IPC product teams, Inventory Management, Transportation, and S&OP to execute key production levers and supporting Middle Mile positioning to manage fulfillment network.
Responsible for helping in creating and leveraging projected future product movement plans that helps on understanding how a change to key inputs like forecast, presentation and Leadtime.
Responsible to build and monitor the system that Inventory managers will use to get recommended order quantities, implement automatic ordering, decide how much inventory to buy, when to bring inventory into the target network, and where to position it.
Provide solutions to help resolve inventory management and supply chain operations frictions.
It will be critical that you are comfortable with ambiguity and utilize a test and learn mindset with other core GSCL teams to inform and develop our broader positioning roadmap.
Analyze underlying trends to identify potential product issues and improvements to the existing product features.
Support key item/brand launches from fulfillment by participating in preparation activities and ensuring systems do have any critical defects.
Support peak volumes by executing key tasks defined specific for peak season.

Job requirements:

Four-year degree with 4-8 years’ experience in math, statistics, business, operations research, or supply chain and/or equivalent experience in an operations research, statistics, or supply chain analysis/operations business environment.
Experience with inventory planning concepts - forecasting, planning, optimization, and logistics - gained through work experience
Ability to create/change/execute SQL queries from analytic datasets and analyze results
Experience and passion for using data to explain or solve complex business problems and influence invention of new systematic and operational processes
Ability to communicate findings clearly and concisely
Experience utilizing problem solving and analytical skills
Ability to adjust priorities to the ever-changing needs of the business
End to end understanding of Digital fulfillment processes

Desired requirements:

R and Python
Experience in retail (stores or headquarters)
Experience as an analyst or manager in Inventory Management, Inventory Management Operations, Planning or similar.
Proven experience achieving results by leading, partnering, and influencing others
Aptitude and familiarity with the design and use of complex logistics and/or reporting software systems.

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