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About the Role

Lead the development of packaging for Target’s owned brands, exclusive partnerships, and select transit packaging. Your influence will drive sales and grow brand love through consumer-centric, on-brand, competitive, and category-relevant packaging. Collaborate across internal teams and external partners to deliver packaging solutions that meet and exceed consumer expectations, align with brand vision, navigate supply chain complexities, and advance sustainability goals.

Responsibilities

Prioritize and manage numerous packaging projects, focused on meeting business needs while layering in sustainability and cost savings, all while delivering on time and on budget.
Work directly with domestic and international vendors and suppliers.
Lead the structural design and development of new, improved, more sustainable, and cost-effective owned brand packaging within Discretionary businesses.
Leverage structural packaging expertise for assigned categories under the coaching of the Packaging Design & Development Director.
Ensure the primary package will protect, contain, and display the product from initial idea through final use.
Work across the enterprise with key internal partners to define packaging requirements and identify optimal packaging solutions.
Collaborate directly with product vendors and packaging suppliers to bring packaging solutions that meet business and consumer needs, delivering on time, at the lowest cost, while ensuring corporate sustainability commitments and legislative requirements are met.
Drive packaging sustainability initiatives by reducing material use, phasing out problematic plastics, and supporting compliance with EPR regulations.
Identify and implement cost-saving opportunities through material optimization, format changes, Unit of Measure changes, and supplier collaboration without compromising product integrity or brand standards.
Contribute to category and item level market research, including testing and consumer feedback, drawing conclusions from relevant data and making appropriate recommendations.
Lead prototyping and development of Target packaging structural concepts for Owned Brand products.
Ensure item level packaging specifications are accurate, deadlines are met, and products set on time and as designed.

Requirements

Four-year packaging engineering degree
3-7 years of experience preferred
Ability to manage a high-volume workload involving multiple projects across various departments.
Strong prioritization and time management skills are essential to consistently meet deadlines.
Strong passion for engineering and design, a proactive drive to learn new skills, and a high level of attention to detail.
Ability to work independently and strategically in a fast-paced environment.
Strong interpersonal, written and verbal communication, and organizational skills.
Expertise with Artios CAD and SOLIDWORKS, CSWA (Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate) preferred.
In office requirement of 4+ days a week.
Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Skills

Packaging engineering
Structural packaging
Packaging design
Project management
Time management
Attention to detail
Interpersonal communication
Written communication
Verbal communication
Organizational skills
Artios CAD
SOLIDWORKS
CSWA (Certified SOLIDWORKS Associate)

Location

Target HQ MN

Work Type

Hybrid/Flex for Your Day

Experience Level

3-7 years

Education Level

Four-year packaging engineering degree

Salary/Compensations

$73,000.00 - $132,000.00

Benefits

Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
401(k)
Employee discount
Short term disability
Long term disability
Paid sick leave
Paid national holidays
Paid vacation

About the Company

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers.
The Owned Brand Management & Product Design organization thrives on the magic of discovering that just-right thing, and infuses everything with a passion for affordable chic.
They concept, develop, make and deliver stylish new favorites that Target guests expect and deserve.
They are uber-savvy trend and style experts who stay ahead of the curve, proactively identifying market needs and exceeding them.
Join dynamic and inventive teams to influence the style, quality, and value that decisively position Target above the competition.
Input has a direct and positive effect on a variety of categories.
Be close to the action of dreaming up and bringing to life the Target-owned brands that surprise and gratify guests.

Equal Opportunity

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.