Executive Team Leader Service & Engagement (assistant Manager Front End) Plainville, Ma

Target Target · Retail · Plainville, MA

This role is for an Executive Team Leader, Service & Engagement at Target, focusing on managing front-end operations, guest experience, and team leadership. It involves driving sales, managing staffing and schedules, and ensuring a positive customer interaction. The role is primarily product-focused within the consumer domain, with a mature AI maturity signal as it's a large retail operation likely using AI tools but not building them.

What you'd actually do

  1. Build a team of passionate and knowledgeable Guest Advocates and Service and Engagement Leaders who strive to exceed guest service expectations by focusing on decreasing wait time, friendly guest interaction and service recovery
  2. Drive total store sales, understand your role in sales growth and how your departments and team contribute to and impacts total store profitability
  3. Anticipate staffing needs, talent plan and recruit – both long and short term
  4. Manage leaders to follow-up on training completion, check for understanding and provide continuous education opportunities to drive proficiencies for all front of store experiences
  5. Engage in consistent and meaningful development conversations throughout the critical touch points within Service and Engagement Team leader career path

Skills

Required

  • Guest service fundamentals
  • Team leadership
  • Guest engagement
  • Problem solving
  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Department sales trends
  • Inventory management
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Department workload planning
  • Sales goal management
  • Team management
  • Recruiting
  • Talent management
  • Ethical conduct
  • Safety and compliance

Nice to have

  • Experience building and managing a guest first team culture
  • Experience setting and planning department monthly/quarterly workload to support business priorities
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members, leaders and creating Service and Engagement business strategies and goals
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members, leaders and creating Service and Engagement business strategies and goals