Associate Planner

Role Overview The Associate Planner – Planner Support, Discretionary supports Marketplace Planners by providing data-driven planning support, forecasting inputs, business case development, and decision support across discretionary businesses including Home, Fun101, A&A, and Frequency. This role works closely with Marketplace Planning,, Partner Management, and other cross-functional teams to translate business questions into structured analysis, identify opportunities, and support delivery of financial and operational goals. Key Responsibilities 1. Financial & Business Planning Support development of business plans for key metrics including GMV, revenue, traffic, conversion, and partner productivity. Assist in building and maintaining weekly, monthly, and quarterly forecasts across discretionary planning areas. Track performance against plans and highlight risks, opportunities, and key drivers of variance. 2. Planner Decision Support Translate planner requests into clear data requirements, analysis plans, and repeatable templates. Produce forecasting inputs, pre/ post-performance reads, business cases, and scenario analysis. Consolidate data support across Home, Fun101, A&A to improve consistency and speed of decision-making. 3. Cross-Functional Collaboration Partner with Marketplace Planners, Partner Management, Finance, and Analytics teams to support business priorities. Communicate insights and recommendations clearly to planners and cross-functional stakeholders. 4. Planning Process Excellence Support planning cadences including weekly business reviews, forecasting cycles, performance tracking, and business planning routines. Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, reduce manual effort, and enhance efficiency through automation. Ensure data accuracy, consistency and documentation across planning tools, reports, and planner-facing outputs. About You Bachelor’s degree. 3–5 years of experience in business planning, financial analysis, merchandise planning, or e Commerce. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills. Proficiency in Excel; Ability to work with large datasets and translate data into insights and recommendations. Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. High attention to detail with a structured approach to problem solving. 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.