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Sr Sourcing Manager

Role overview

Qualifications

  • Four-year degree or equivalent
  • 3+ years of relevant sourcing experience
  • Strong communication, analytical and financial skills
  • Strong negotiation and vendor management skills

Responsibilities

  • Partnering with global sourcing and vendors to deliver high-quality merchandise
  • Driving sourcing strategy to support global balance and matrix optimization
  • Collaborating with cross-functional teams including Merchants, Planners and Designers
  • Ensuring compliance with responsible practices and influencer selection of supplier partners

Key facts

Other skills

  • Negotiation
  • Analytical Skills
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Financial Acumen
  • Leadership
  • Creativity
  • Problem Solving
  • Prioritization
  • Diversity Awareness
  • Dealing With Ambiguity

About the company

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Target

Retail

Target is one of the world’s most recognized brands and one of America’s leading retailers. We make Target our guests’ preferred shopping destination by offering outstanding value, inspiration, innovation and an exceptional guest experience that no other retailer can deliver. Target is committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support. Since 1946, we have given 5 percent of our profits back to our communities. Our goal is to work as one team to fulfill our unique brand promise to our guests, wherever and whenever they choose to shop. For more information, visit corporate.target.com.

Company details

Company typeXLarge
IndustryRetail
Company size10001

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Job description

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves. Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

Close to Business Sr Sourcing Manager – School/Office 
As a Fortune 500 company with more than 350,000 team members worldwide, Target is an iconic brand and one of America’s leading retailers. Working at Target means the opportunity to help all families discover the joy of everyday life. Caring for our communities is woven into who we are, and we invest in the places we collectively live, work and play. We prioritize relationships, fuel and develop talent by creating growth opportunities, and succeed as one Target team. At our core, our purpose is ingrained in who we are, what we value, and how we work. It’s how we care, grow, and win together. 
 
Target Merchandising is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how this $70 billion retailer offers the innovative, guest-inspiring items that Target is known and loved for. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, quality and style to elevate Target as the premier retailer in a competitive global marketplace. Through intelligent and progressive business strategies that make the most of Target’s resources and partnerships worldwide, Merchandising works across product categories to create a localized shopping experience online and in our 1800 stores. Are you a creative problem solver who loves to see your work translate into real results? Can you collaborate effectively, execute a plan efficiently and positively influence how Target chooses and presents the right product in the right place at the right price? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams. 
 

A role in Sourcing means having a part in developing products that have a positive impact on people and the planet. We integrate our sourcing capabilities with our propensity for quality and social responsibility to positively impact cost and quality of our products. We care about the lives of the people who make the products Target guests love, and we’re mindful of the impact our manufacturing practices have on the environment. Your industry knowledge and connectivity to our suppliers’ activities will help ensure compliance with responsible practices, and you’ll have key influence over which supplier partners Target chooses to work with. 

 
As a Senior Sourcing Manager in School/Office, you will work with multiple cross-functional teams including Target Merchants, Planners and Designers. You will be responsible for partnering with global sourcing and vendors to deliver high-quality, trend-right merchandise at a great value to our guests. You will drive sourcing strategy to support global balance, matrix optimization, and help Target achieve our financial plans. 

 
About you:  

  • Four-year degree or equivalent with 3+ years of relevant sourcing experience 

  • Strong communication, analytical and financial skills 

  • Effectively collaborate and influence across a broad group of partners, stakeholders and global team to achieve business results  

  • Respect, appreciate and value diverse voices and approaches 

  • Ability to prioritize competing deliverables and rapidly evolving business priorities 

  • Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills 

  • Strong negotiation and vendor management skills 

  • High tolerance for ambiguity  

  • Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed 

  • Hybrid/local only  

Target General Merch Inc (TGMI) is prohibited from working more than 30 days per yearin the following 16 states: AL, AR, DE, FL, IN , IA, LA, MD, MS, MO, NC, OK, PA, SC,TN and VA – We are not able to hire remote talent from any of these states. Any relocating talent from these states will need to relocate to MPLS within 30 days from start date. 

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. 

corporate.target.com 

Target's hometown market, the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minanesota 

 

Team Members in the Target General Merch Inc operating company are prohibited from working more than thirty (30) days per calendar year in any of the following states: AL, AR, DE, FL, IN, IA, LA, MD, MS, MO, NC, OK, PA, SC, TN and VA. If hired, you will be prohibited from working remotely from any of the states listed above for more than thirty (30) days per calendar year.

Benefits Eligibility

Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please reach out to candidate.accommodations@HRHelp.Target.com. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.  

Application deadline is : 07/30/2026

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