Director Merch Buying - Snacks

Target Brands, Inc.

$135K — $243K *
Food & Beverages
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • 8+ years of Merchandising experience with various product categories
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills to drive growth
  • Strong collaboration skills for cross-functional teamwork
  • Flexibility and resilience in dynamic environments
  • Commitment to developing a high-performing team

Responsibilities

  • Lead the planning of profitable and locally relevant product assortments
  • Influence and negotiate with vendors to achieve business results
  • Identify product gaps and market opportunities through analysis
  • Drive category results by managing sales and margin goals
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to support promotional planning
  • Guide product development alongside designers and category managers
  • Manage and mentor Associate Buyers and Senior Merchandise Specialists

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Employee discount program
  • Paid sick leave and vacation
  • Short-term and long-term disability insurance
  • Paid national holidays
  • Support for overall well-being through various programs
Full Job Description
The pay range is $135,000.00 - $243,000.00

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and in some instances may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests 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.

A role in Buying means working with several diverse vendors to choose the best product mix, both in-store and online. We help determine where to localize, while calibrating market positioning and acting as brand managers. Here, you'll own a wide SKU count so that your work is varied and challenging. Through cross-functional collaboration, instinct and creativity, you will be the expert on the guest, the market and the competition.

A Merch Buying Director helps create omni-channel growth by planning profitable and locally relevant assortments using your grasp of guest shopping behavior, assortment requirements and competitors. You will influence and negotiate with vendors to achieve results and identify gaps and opportunities. Your flexibility in reacting to business results and your ability to translate financial metrics and data into actionable strategies will be critical. You will lead cross-functional teams to drive category results while managing progress toward sales and margin goals. Your partnerships with product designers and/or category mangers and vendors will help guide product development as you source appropriately for your category. You will lead Associate Buyers and Senior Merchandise Specialists; and interact with the Pricing and Promotion Center of Excellence, Planning, Site Merchandising, the Item Center of Excellence and many other expert partners in support of your promotional planning work across channels.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job Duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:
• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of Merchandising experience with various product categories
• Strong strategic and analytical skills to drive growth in a business
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with a cross-functional team
• Flexibility, resiliency and nimbleness; comfortable working in "grey areas" that are constantly changing
• Committed to developing a high-performing team

This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Target's needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team member's core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually, depending upon what your role, team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location, unless otherwise prescribed by Target.

Benefits Eligibility
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Application deadline is : 08/14/2026

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