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Learn more about Target here.\nA role in Financial Planning & Analysis means belonging to a great team of genuine, diverse, courageous and versatile people who put integrity and ethics at the heart of everything they do. Together, you’ll drive outstanding financial results by enabling and accelerating Target’s strategic execution. You’ll nurture influential partnerships with leaders who value your credibility, thanks to the quality and reliability of your insights. To teams across Target, you’ll bring your skills for analytical rigor, creative problem-solving and sound decision-making. You’ll be an active contributor to cross-functional teams. You’ll rise to the challenge of the dynamic retail industry, brining innovative solutions that have a direct impact on financial and operational direction-setting, merchandising and capital investments and how to best use our resources. All of your good work will help elevate and maintain Target as one of the world’s most recognized and best-loved retail brands.\nAs a Sr Analyst on Target’s Market Research and Analysis team, you will assist and support for market analysis, strategic planning and geospatial analysis and location research for Target’s new and existing store capital investment programs. You will partner closely across the Market Research, Finance, Properties-Real Estate, Operations, Stores and Merchandising teams to develop and communicate holistic market strategy, drawing on geographic, store and market insights.\nYou will influence both new store location strategy and existing store reinvestment decisions geared towards driving market-based decision making. You will own store sales forecasting for locations across your unique set of markets, driving for accuracy while evaluating the importance of store location attributes; interpreting strategic tradeoffs, competitive positioning, site dynamics, market trends, demographic and economic indicators. You will apply geospatial analysis to support market and location decisions, including the evaluation of trade areas, market characteristics, competitive positioning and other location-based factors.\nYou will leverage your excellent communication skills for presentations to Leadership across MRA, Properties, and FP&A. You will have the opportunity to contribute ideas to improve research methodologies, GIS systems, databases, demographics and analytical tools, including geospatial analysis workflows and the integration of geographic and market data.\nCore responsibilities of this job are described within this job description. 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