Sr Data Analyst – People Analytics & Insights

About us: 

Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers. 

Target Human Resources is well known for its signature ability to build the very best teams, and we infuse our work with Target’s distinctive retail brand by continuously experimenting, evolving and innovating. With the chance to positively impact nearly 350,000 people worldwide in our stores, distribution centers and headquarters, you’ll be a strategic partner to both the leaders and the team members who elevate and nurture the Target guest experience. Our dynamic, passionate and responsive team comprises specialized people-professionals from several diverse disciplines. We operate behind the scenes to create a progressive culture of value, respect, reward and professional advancement. 

The People Analytics & Insights team mission is to empower a data driven approach to HR and people decisions regarding our global workforce. We are uniquely positioned to provide unbiased insights to unlock value and drive outcomes and to enable and influence HR and business strategy. 

The People Analytics & Insights team 

• Integrates into the business as strategic HR analytics partners and anticipates and uncovers stated or unstated needs. 

• Listens and empowers team member and external stakeholder voice  

• Uses our analytics expertise to test, measure, analyze, understand and answer various business questions 

• Provide reporting to help inform on the current state of the business and help facilitate process at scale 

• Connects our understanding across business and HR to deliver data driven products and solutions  

• Provide meaningful insights and recommendations 

About the role: 

Our Sr. Data Analysts are expected to explore data, technologies, and the application of mathematical techniques to enable business insights. Data analysts accomplish this through a wide variety of skills including: data wrangling, reporting, dashboarding, visualization, statistical analysis, modeling, and the presentation of recommendations and insight.  Analysts will work within an agile environment, which requires active participation in ceremonies to accomplish the team’s goals.  They also develop domain knowledge as they learn about their business area and support applying key data management principles like metadata management, data profiling, and documenting their data lineage. 

• Actively exploring data for specific use cases 

• Creating measurable insights from the data to be shared 

• Developing metrics, reports, and statistics 

• Documenting calculations, code, and adhering to data management principles 

• Validating and testing data assets of others in the form of peer review 

• Exploring statistical analysis that could be applied to the data 

• Performing descriptive statistics including mean, variance, median, correlation 

• Applies insights and testing in partnership with business users 

• Active participant in team meetings 

• Support agile ceremonies 

About You: 

• Must have minimum 3 years of college degree with mathematics or statistics knowledge

• 4+ years work experience in data analysis or masters level education in business analytics, data science, etc. 

• Knowledge of data, reporting, and analytics 

• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education 

• Proficient with various programming languages- SQL, R, Python 

• Familiarity with relational and non-relational databases 

• Math and/or Statistics: 

• Mathematical logic (AND, OR, NOT) 
• Descriptive and Inferential Statistics 
• Calculus (weighted averages, rates of change, single variable) 

• Testing and Research Design: 

• Apply the scientific method and experimental design 

• Generate insight from observational data