Yes, a user does require a special role or privilege to work with the Sales Target Management plugin. Depending upon a user's role in the organisation and the level of access granted to him, he can have the following access types:
View access or
Update/edit access or
Full access.
You can navigate to Home > Setup > User Management > Roles . Click the Edit symbol to edit the desired role. Expand the Setup section to assign, view, edit or modify the permissions