Senior Cybersecurity Analyst - Enterprise Incident Management (EIM)

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As a Senior Analyst on Enterprise Incident Management (EIM) you would play a key role in coordinating the enterprise response to cybersecurity and data privacy incidents. This role is responsible for leading the operational response process ensuring security events are managed efficiently, communication flows clearly, and stakeholders remain aligned throughout the incident lifecycle.
 

EIM leads coordination across security, legal, privacy, and business teams, maintaining situational awareness, ensuring timely communication, and supporting enterprise risk-based decisions. This position is ideal for someone who thrives in high-pressure environments, excels at structured communication, and brings process discipline to complex scenarios.

Core responsibilities of this job are described within this job description.  Job duties may change at any time due to business needs. 
Core Responsibilities:

Incident Response Coordination

• Serve as the incident coordinator for confirmed or potential cybersecurity and data privacy incidents.
• Launch incident-specific collaboration, lead operational cadence, and ensure clarity of ownership across participating teams.
• Track key actions, decisions, and milestones throughout the incident.
• Ensure appropriate stakeholder groups (e.g., Legal, Privacy, Communications, Risk) are engaged as the scope and impact evolve.

Stakeholder Communication

• Draft and deliver real-time incident updates to internal stakeholders, including operational leadership and cross-functional partners.
• Translate technical details into actionable business focused summaries.
• Support decision-making by articulating risks and providing relevant context from case history or prior incidents.
• Participate in verbal readouts to security leadership and risk governance groups as appropriate.
• Prepare and conduct proactive tabletop activities in partnership with teams across Target to test and enhance response processes. 

Casework & Documentation

• Independently manage end-to-end response for lower severity incidents (roughly 80% of day to day work).
• Maintain accurate and timely case documentation, including timelines, summaries, and incident whiteboards.
• Collaborate with other incident coordinators on high-severity events, providing coordination support and cross-team continuity.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 3–6 years of experience in cybersecurity, privacy, risk management, crisis coordination, or related fields.
• Ability to flex from day to day functions to crisis at a moments notice
• Demonstrated experience coordinating or supporting real-world security or privacy incidents.
• Strong understanding of the cybersecurity incident lifecycle and associated business/regulatory impacts.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills under pressure.
• Ability to work independently, make decisions, and manage multiple incidents with competing priorities.
• Comfort facilitating virtual incident bridges and collaboration channels across functions.
• Able to work on a rotating on-call basis (On call for one week, 24 hours a day, once per month).
• Ability to work outside standard business hours when required during high-severity events.

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

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.