Executive Team Leader of Specialty Sales (assistant Manager Merchandising) - Compton, Ca

Target Target · Retail · Compton, CA

This role is for an Executive Team Leader of Specialty Sales at Target, focusing on merchandising and sales leadership for departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. The position involves driving sales, managing teams, ensuring guest experience, and overseeing operational tasks such as merchandising, pricing, and inventory. It is a leadership role within a retail environment, not directly involved in AI/ML development.

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 a team to deliver on sales goals
  • Managing multiple specialty businesses
  • Balancing team member expertise
  • Managing competitors
  • Leveraging insights
  • 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

Nice to have

  • Training on merchandising and sales techniques
  • Development and coaching skills
  • Onboarding and closing product knowledge and skill gaps