Role Overview
A role with Target Packaging- Home is an opportunity to lead the development of packaging for Target’s beloved owned brands, exclusive partnerships and select transit packaging, driving sales and growing brand love through consumer-centric packaging.
About Target
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America’s leading retailers, committed to responsible corporate citizenship, ethical business practices, environmental stewardship and generous community support.
Key Responsibilities
- Leverage your structural packaging expertise for assigned categories working under the coaching of the Packaging Design & Development Director
- Ensure the primary package will protect, contain, and display the product from the 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
- 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
- Contribute to category and item level market research, including testing and consumer feedback
- Lead prototyping and development of Target packaging structural concepts for our Owned Brand products
Requirements & Eligibility
- 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 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
Required Skills & Tech
Artios CADSOLIDWORKSCSWAStructural PackagingPackaging Design