Target Hiring for Engagement Manager, Talent Partnerships and Influencer Marketing Job at Minneapolis, MN Full Time

Location: 1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States, 55403-2542

A role with Talent Partnerships + Influencer Marketing (TPIM) means you will be a part of our Creative Collaborations team where our role is to bring incremental value to – and reflect the values of our brand, business and guest by working with inspiring, inclusive and resonant partners.

As an Engagement Manager for TPIM, you will build and foster relationships with internal and external partners to plan, create and lead our project roadmaps and drive connections with key partners to deliver deeply human and connected activations that meet our team goals. You will lead in partner engagement with focus on managing expectations of how we work, while defining new ways of working that will improve upon and continue to build equity within the TPIM team. You will work closely with our external agency to activate our team’s strategic roadmap, activating and managing content in flight and leading our budget process and management to ensure we are creating work on time and within budget.

You will motivate and inspire the teams to meet their milestones of the work throughout the process and to achieve challenging goals and high standards of performance while fostering a culture of collaboration across the organization. You will be an influential partner and seen as the go-to point of contact for internal and external partners for TPIM.

Job duties may change at any time due to business need. Additionally, you will:

• Strategic lead and thought partner for the Holiday, Inclusive Marketing and Social Commerce work

• Lead and define new ways of working to connect all content channel partners to proactively plan and map out a holistic content approach for audience led work

• Lead partner in agency interaction, through ongoing connections and management to meet needs and expectations for timely, on budget and effective activations

• TPIM budget captain, owning planning, management and routine across all campaigns and through monthly forecast and connections to our finance partners

• Define and implement roadmap through our end-to-end model, from strategy and insights to relationship management, into activation and measurement and reporting

• Lead in neutralizing ambiguity, identifies challenges and takes a strong lead in defining solutions and driving action plan to keep teams moving

• Lead and maintain TPIM’s consult and engagement model across the enterprise, ensuring interaction with team, partners and agency meet the team’s guidelines to meet key initiatives

• Lead engagement with focus on building trusting and collaborative relationships with key Marketing teams and external agency on behalf of the TPIM team

About you:

• 6+ years Account Management, Project Management, or equivalent experience

• Strategic, big-picture thinker who can anticipate, connect the dots and activate teams

• Expert interpersonal communication and collaboration skills, able to connect across the organization to clarify and set clear expectations

• Master in leading through ambiguity as an objective partner that maintains a Guest-centric point of view

• Self-starter that has strength in building relationships, connecting teams and driving projects forward

• Detail oriented, ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects in a faced pace environment with a consistent and accurate output

• Builds trusting and collaborative relationships with peers, marketing partners and external agencies

• Ability to build and manage relationships across all levels

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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