Sr Corporate Security Consultant - Partner Engagement (hybrid in Minneapolis)

The pay range is $69,000.00 - $124,200.00

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Job Title: Senior Consultant – Corporate Security Ops Partner Engagement

Classification: Exempt

Date: August 2024

About Us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

To match the signature style and passion of Target’s distinctive and beloved retail brand, Target Legal Affairs is a dynamic and deeply knowledgeable team of legal pros, each with valuable expertise from several disciplines. Whether specializing in government affairs, policy, risk management, regulatory compliance, ethics or employee and labor relations, this team advocates for Target and its business plans in communities across the nation and works across the entire company to provide internal clients with cohesive guidance. We are committed to being internal experts to both internal and external entities on key issues that affect Target’s ability to productively do business. We focus on defining, investigating, anticipating and ultimately mitigating risk in all its forms. We apply our grasp of brand law by overseeing, maintaining and ensuring correct, consistent and authorized use of Target’s signature Bullseye logo, assets and other trademarked material. We help protect Target and its subsidiaries by applying our comprehensive understanding and interpretation of the laws that govern our stores, distribution centers and corporate locations.

Here, you’ll enjoy working autonomously with a healthy work-balance. Your passion for learning the business and building relationships with the senior leaders and key business partners that you support will be key to tackling the ever-changing legal challenges we face in a dynamic and fast-paced retail landscape. From brand and patent law to contract development and negotiations, you’ll be challenged and gratified by a role with Target Legal Affairs.

A role within Corporate Security means protecting our Target community by managing physical security risks that have the potential to impact our team members, guests, and operations. Here, you may support our mission by generating intelligence & awareness, ensuring protective security, providing incident response, or guiding recovery & continuity procedures in the event of incidents or crises. 

A Sr Consultant on the Corporate Security Operations team is responsible for delivering solutions to enterprise partners across all our HQ locations throughout the world through collaboration, subject matter expertise, and efficiency. This role is responsible for overall partner engagement, generating active participation from stakeholders via strategic and collaborative initiatives including internal communications and awareness; external partnerships and benchmarking; and corporate policy and training governance.

• Facilitate internal communication initiatives to raise awareness of security protocols and best practices among team members.

• Organize and lead training programs to educate team members on security procedures and corporate policies.

• Support crisis communication efforts by engaging with key internal and external stakeholders during security incidents.

• Develop and maintain relationships with external public and private sector partners to enhance security collaboration and benchmarking.

• Represent the security team in meetings with external agencies, ensuring that the company’s interests are well-communicated.

• Prepare and present reports on partner engagement activities, including key metrics, achievements, and areas for improvement.

• Job duties may change at any time due to business needs, which may result in special projects or initiatives being assigned.

Job duties may change at any time due to business needs

About You:

A successful candidate will have a proven track record of strategic thinking, problem solving, and driving meaningful results. Key requirements include:

• Education: Four-year degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

• Certification: Certified Protection Professional (CPP®), Physical Security Professional (PSP®), or Associate Protection Professional (APP) or equivalent certification preferred.

• Experience: Three to five years of relevant work experience.

• Project Management: Ability to adapt, prioritize, and successfully manage multiple task or projects in response to changing, ambiguous, or competing priorities. This includes the ability to plan, execute, monitor, and close projects to meet specific objectives and success measures.

• Change Management: Ability to apply change principles and processes to effectively identify, manage, initiate, and influence adoption to change initiatives.

• Stakeholder Collaboration: Ability to facilitate meetings, resolve conflict, build consensus, establish rapport and collaborate effectively, internally and externally, across all levels of an organization. This includes understanding the appropriate time and method for timely issue escalation.

• Automation: Ability to use or re-engineer a process in order to transition manual controls or processes to automation.

• Subject Matter Expertise: Ability to provide consultation to internal partners to enable effective decisions surrounding project and workload management. This includes completing continuous education or certification, participating in benchmarking discussions with industry partners or consultants, and applying innovative solutions that align with or exceed industry standards.

• Communication: Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders, sponsors, and senior management. This includes providing project updates to keep key decision makers informed of progress, issues, change management, and support needed for successful outcomes.

• Administration: Highly proficient in use of Microsoft Office Suite programs including Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

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.