Associate Planner

Role Overview The Associate Planner – Partner Incentive Strategy & Governance supports the planning, tracking, and governance of partner incentive programs across Target Plus. This role works closely with Marketplace Planning, Partner Management, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to manage incentive scorecards, track goal performance, support calculation accuracy, document governance routines, and provide transparency into incentive performance and business impact. Key Responsibilities 1. Incentive Planning & Performance Tracking Own development and maintenance of partner incentive scorecards and performance views. Track performance against incentive goals and highlight risks, opportunities, and exceptions. Assist in maintaining incentive calculation logic, metric definitions, and supporting documentation. 2. Incentive Governance & Accuracy Monitor incentive performance and support regular QA routines to improve calculation accuracy. Manage documentation for metric refreshes, approvals, exceptions, and sign-off processes. Identify drivers of variance, calculation discrepancies, and process gaps requiring review or escalation. 3. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with Partner Management, Services, Finance, and other cross-functional teams to align on incentive priorities, metrics, and timelines. Support execution of incentive-related initiatives aimed at driving partner performance, GMV, revenue, and business growth. Communicate incentive performance, risks, exceptions, and recommendations effectively to stakeholders. 4. Planning Process Excellence Identify opportunities to automate incentive inputs, consolidate calculations, and reduce manual effort. Ensure data accuracy, consistency, documentation, and auditability across incentive scorecards, reports, and governance tools. About You Bachelor’s degree. 3–5 years of experience in business planning, financial analysis, sales operations, marketplace operations, governance, or analytics. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Proficiency in Excel; Ability to work with large datasets and translate data into clear performance insights. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. High attention to detail with a structured approach to governance, QA, and process management. Demonstrates ownership, curiosity, and a bias for action. 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. We'll contact you if you're selected for next steps. In the meantime, follow us at A Bullseye View for the latest news. Our Benefits We care about and invest 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.