Director, Enterprise Sustainability Strategic Initiatives

Role Overview

• Shaping and advancing Target’s enterprise sustainability strategy, ensuring alignment with business priorities, financial considerations, and critical external stakeholder expectations
• Translating external sustainability, policy, and market trends into forward-looking strategic insight, surfacing risks, opportunities, and implications for enterprise decision-making and long-term value creation
• Framing ambiguous or emerging sustainability issues, define problem statements, assess options and tradeoffs, and drive alignment toward decisions that balance ambition, financial realities, and execution pathways
• Leading high-priority, cross-cutting strategic initiatives that span multiple sustainability priorities and business functions, including circularity, resilience, sustainable innovation, and others as required
• Partnering with Corporate Strategy, Finance, and business teams to embed sustainability into enterprise strategy, planning, and investment decisions, driving clarity, focus, and enterprise alignment across initiatives
• Translating sustainability priorities into clear business cases and strategic narratives that enable informed tradeoffs and investment decisions
• Preparing executive and Board-ready materials that clearly articulate sustainability strategy, implications, and recommended paths forward
• Elevating the strategic capability of the Enterprise Sustainability team by strengthening problem definition, enterprise framing, and executive readiness across workstreams
• Leading through influence across a complex, matrixed organization, aligning stakeholders and advancing initiatives without direct authority

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) or equivalent professional experience; MBA preferred
• 10+ years of professional experience in sustainability, enterprise strategy, management consulting, or related strategic roles
• Background in consulting, enterprise strategy, transformation, or internal advisory roles preferred
• Deep, hands-on expertise across environmental and social sustainability topics, including climate, responsible sourcing, ESG, and stakeholder expectations
• Experience leading or advising on circularity, sustainable product and materials strategies, or business model innovation in a commercial context is strongly preferred
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional strategic initiatives in a large, matrixed organization
• Strong ability to synthesize complexity and ambiguity into clear, executive-level insights, options, and recommendations
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, including experience preparing executive
• and Board-ready materials
• Strong organizational awareness and proven ability to influence without formal authority across senior stakeholders
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with comfort operating in ambiguous, fast-evolving environments
• High degree of judgment, discretion, and ability to handle sensitive and confidential information
• Experience in retail, consumer goods, or similarly complex operating environments preferred

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• employee discount
• short term disability
• long term disability
• paid sick leave
• paid national holidays
• paid vacation