Sr Ops Engineer-1

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Target Store Operations is continuing to transform the way it operates. Here, your work directly supports the store mission to be the guest favorite through successfully developing and communicating the processes for operations, style and experience, new structures, new operating models and new technology, and utilizing workforce management activities for our 1,800 locations nationwide. Store Operations manages and enhances the informational resources for researching and resolving operational issues, while guiding and communicating with the field team and leaders who use them. Are you a customer service enthusiast who can actively listen to many points of view and then visualize how they ll perform when operationalized in a store? Are you happy to partner with leaders as well as field team members who are often the experts on how well a process is working? Can you creatively envision more efficient processes and how they ll deliver a better experience for guests and team members? Do you possess the innovative mindset to question the status quo, and the confidence to work under varying degrees of ambiguity and well-informed experimentation? Then you ll have success on one of our dynamic teams.

The Operations Design & Excellence Center for Stores (ODECS) in Target In India is positioned to deliver excellence in operations in support of stores strategy focused on guest, operations and team. A role with ODECS means a big opportunity to apply your retail, operations, and process engineering/improvement experience to directly support Target s long-range plans for sales, efficiency, profitability and capacity. You will be responsible for driving improvements to replenishment, space, fulfillment, and checkout processes in stores by applying best practices and methods, driving innovation, and working horizontally across the enterprise to maximize synergies in operations.

As a Senior Operations Engineer - Operations Design & Excellence you will be responsible for applying process engineering methods like Lean, Six Sigma, PDCA to identify defects and waste in existing store processes. You will create value stream maps, paretos to identify critical points of failure in the process. You will be responsible for applying statistical, optimization and simulation modeling techniques to recommend solutions. You will provide critical inputs to inform long term strategy, deliverables, and milestones. You will need to identify minimum viable solutions, deploy test and measurement strategies, establish feedback mechanisms to continuously iterate upon and improved solutions. You will be required to collect and synthesize information across various teams, apply data and intuition and generate insights that guide decisions. You will be required to collaborate horizontally throughout the organization across different levels and areas of work to drive alignment to shared goals and outcomes.

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