Mark Johnson

About Mark Johnson

Collaborative and guest-centric business leader with 20 years of experience forming strategies across architecture, visual merchandising, and styling to form best-in-class in-store experiences that drive engagement for world-leading consumer brands. Proven track record of translating visions into action while bringing top creative and analytical minds together, encouraging diversity of ideas and cooperation among cross-functional stakeholders. Global citizen, leveraging past leadership roles in China, Japan, Europe, and the U.S. to build and lead multinational teams. Core Competencies: • Leadership • Visual merchandising • Store design • Interior design • Process optimization • Retail innovation • Retail transformation • Retail marketing • GTM development • Visioning • Training and development

Experience

1. Director Store Experience Marketing Design Innovation

   Target

   Aug 2021 — Present · Minneapolis, MN, US

   Inspire and direct a team of 20 in-store marketing designers, engineers, and producers in the creation of all in-store marketing elements that deliver a sense of belonging, inspiration and wonder for guests while successfully balancing feasibility, scale, complexity, and budget for a retail fleet of stores. • Owner of enterprise-wide collaboration and partnerships with store design, visual merchandising, styling, creative agencies, enterprise strategy and planning teams to bring the future vision for in-store presentation to life by leading conceptual ideation, demonstrating our future experience potential that delivers on guest insights, operational efficiencies, and design innovation. • Develop the store experience marketing and partner teams to realize their full potential and to see the possibilities for our brand, the guest, and guide them to continuously elevate the store environment.

Education

• Nichols College

  BS in Business Administration, Marketing