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Sr. Buyer - Coffee & Tea

Target

Minneapolis, MN · HybridFull-time$95–171K/yrPosted 6 days agoStill listed 4 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$95–171K/yr
Location
Minneapolis, MNHybrid
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Senior Buyer for Coffee & Tea plans profitable, locally relevant assortments to support omni-channel growth. The role involves influencing and negotiating with vendors, identifying business opportunities, translating financial metrics and data into strategies, and leading cross-functional teams toward sales and margin goals. The buyer also partners with designers, category managers, vendors, and other teams on product development and promotional planning across channels.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Strategic Skills, requiredAnalytical Skills, requiredCross-Functional Collaboration, requiredConsumer Insights, requiredIndustry Awareness, requiredTrend Forecasting, requiredPartnership Building, requiredBusiness Alignment, required

Qualifications

Four-Year Degree or Equivalent Experience, nice to have4+ Years Merchandising Experience, required

Benefits

Medical Insurance
Vision Insurance
Dental Insurance
401(k) Match
Paid Time Off

Full job description

The pay range is $95,000.00 - $171,000.00 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.

About us: Target Merchandising is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how this $70 billion retailer offers the innovative, guest-inspiring items that Target is known and loved for. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, quality and style to elevate Target as the premier retailer in a competitive global marketplace. Through intelligent and progressive business strategies that make the most of Target’s resources and partnerships worldwide, Merchandising works across product categories to create a localized shopping experience online and in our 1800 stores. Are you a creative problem solver who loves to see your work translate into real results? Can you collaborate effectively, execute a plan efficiently and positively influence how Target chooses and presents the right product in the right place at the right price? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

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 Senior Buyer 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 interact with Associate Buyers, Senior Merchandise Specialists, 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.

About you:

  • Four-year degree or equivalent experience
  • 4+ years of Merchandising experience
  • Strong strategic and analytical skills to grow a business
  • Strong collaboration skills to partner with cross-functional team
  • Flexible, resilient and comfortable working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing
  • Deeply consumer-obsessed and industry-aware, with the ability to anticipate emerging trends and translate insights into a compelling assortment vision that is distinctly Target.
  • Strong ability to build influential partnerships and drive alignment to deliver business results.

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. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.

Benefits Eligibility Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_E

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 [email protected]. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

Application deadline is : 11/14/2026

How this job compares

Set against the 1,173 open Buyer jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 11, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$95–171K/yr
  • Minnesota median$70–100K/yr33 salary ranges
  • US median$73–100K/yr502 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $133K, is 63% above the Minnesota median midpoint ($81K) — in the top quarter of Buyer salary ranges in Minnesota.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 39 open Buyer jobs in Minnesota and 1,173 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Minnesota
Experience
This posting asks for at least 4 years of experience; Buyer postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (843 postings).
Education
307 of the 1,173 open Buyer jobs (26%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 11, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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