Amanda Vela Kraemer
Senior Vice President, Target
Amanda Vela Kraemer is a successful executive with more than 23 years of retail leadership experience; the last 17 of which she has spent at Target. Currently, she is the Senior Vice President of Stores leading strategy and operations for more than 500 stores in the Southern United States. In this role, Amanda and her team are continually focused on putting the guest at the center of everything they do to help fulfill on Target’s purpose of ‘Helping all families discover the joy of everyday life’.
Amanda joined Target in 2005 as an Executive Team Leader of HR in San Antonio, Texas. Since then, Amanda has held a variety of leadership roles across the country including Store Director, District Senior Director, Group HR Director, and Group Vice President.
Amanda received her bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Amanda and her husband, Jason, enjoy golf, watch sports, and play with their 4-year-old twins.