Target Recruitment Program 2026 | Hiring Analyst – Performance and Insights

Qualifications

About You:

• Minimum 3-7 years of experience in the domain.
• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative field (computer science, statistics or related)
• Strong analytical and modeling skills, proficient at conceptualizing and implementing solutions to business problems.
• Continuous drive to improve performance by deriving actionable insight from complex datasets.
• Ability to judge and quantify results of advertising (i.e., understand true value of ROI, impact of results, compare actual results to benchmarks) and know what to do with this information (how to optimize placements, make recommendations etc.)
• Exceptional attention to detail, organizational and analytical skills. Ability to multi-task and work within a rapidly changing environment.
• Genuine curiosity with how things work; motivated, self-starter
• Strong communication skills and desire to work in cross-functional groups; strong writing skills
• Exceptional understanding of the digital measurement space, analytics tools/pixels
• Expert in Microsoft Excel, DOMO, Tableau, Adobe Site Catalyst
• Knowledge of ad serving, Ad Networks and overall landscape required. Familiar with reporting dimensions and metrics of various ad/reporting servers- DFP, DCM, FB ad manager, Criteo etc.

Role Description:

As a Performance and Insights Analyst, you will report, track, and provide analysis for vendors and Roundel campaigns. This role will focus not only on in- depth analysis of the advertising campaigns but also keenly contributes to trend analysis, upsell opportunities, understanding of measurement methodologies, understanding data and analytics from various sources and making correlation to deliver a great guest experience.

• The Performance and Insights Analyst, will be naturally curious, proactive, and detail-oriented, with the ability to handle multiple tasks at once. The individual in this role will be comfortable with hands on involvement with data analysis, insight generation and enjoy digging into data to find ways to optimize it.
• A strong analytical thinker who can contribute to generating campaign level as well as strategic insights for advertising campaigns on TMN. One must be keen to learn in-depth implementation of various analytics, measurement tools at Target. Target has developed cutting-edge in-house leading methodologies to track and generate accurate performance results. The core competency of this role is campaign’s media metrics analysis and flight recap reporting.
• You’ll need to partner with media strategy and operations to understand the objective of campaigns and how they were optimized. This also includes understanding the Target’s vendor profiles and their support tiers to cater to the specific expectations of the Sales team and vendors.
• Carry out quantitative and qualitative research to produce media evaluation reports. These are then used to evaluate/improve the effectiveness of marketing campaigns.