Executive Team Leader of Specialty Sales

Target Target · Retail · Manalapan, NJ

Executive Team Leader of Specialty Sales at Target, responsible for driving sales, managing teams, and ensuring a positive guest experience in departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. This role involves sales planning, merchandising, team development, and operational management within a retail environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive total store sales, understand your role in sales growth and how your departments and team contribute to and impact total store profitability
  2. Create a guest-obsessed culture and lead your team to prioritize the guest experience and deliver on store sales goals
  3. Create schedules and make adjustments as needed to align to guest traffic and business needs
  4. Manage your team to effectively plan merchandising and pricing workload including transitions, revisions, sales plans, sampling and promotions
  5. Know and assess the competition and leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the destination of choice for our guests

Skills

Required

  • Guest service fundamentals
  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Department sales trends
  • Inventory management
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Setting and planning department workload
  • Managing teams to deliver sales goals
  • Managing multiple specialty businesses
  • Balancing team member expertise
  • Knowledge of competitors
  • Leveraging insights to drive business objectives
  • Managing a team of hourly team members and leaders
  • Creating business specific strategies and goals
  • Recruiting, selecting and talent management of hourly team members and leaders
  • Selling training techniques
  • Backroom processes, organization, layout and replenishment
  • Visual merchandising
  • Team onboarding, learning and development
  • Performance management
  • Ethical conduct, safety and compliance

Nice to have

  • Experience building and managing a guest first culture
  • Experience setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders and creating business specific strategies and goals
  • Skills in recruiting, selecting and talent management of hourly team members and leaders
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders and creating business specific strategies and goals
  • Skills in recruiting, selecting and talent management of hourly team members and leaders