**About the Role**

As a Lead Operations Research on Target’s Fulfillment Optimization Analytics team, you will shape the last mile fulfillment and delivery strategy - where speed, cost, and guest experience collide every day. You’ll identify sales growth opportunities, define placement and positioning strategy, and design decision systems that keep the guest at the center while improving profitability and reliability.

This is a high-impact role working across business, product, and engineering teams to solve complex problems spanning network strategy, delivery promise, service design, order allocation, and dynamic fulfillment decisions. You’ll blend operations research, simulation, and data science to deliver scalable solutions that measurably improve last mile performance.

**Key Responsibilities**

+ Lead last mile strategy and optimization: Define and optimize delivery strategy (e.g., same-day/next-day options, service levels, coverage, and promise/...