Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales (assistant Manager Merchandising and Service) - N. Austin, Tx

Target Target · Retail · Lakeline Mall Dr, Austin, TX

Executive Team Leader for Specialty Sales at Target, responsible for managing merchandising and service in departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. The role focuses on driving sales, creating a positive guest experience, managing inventory, and leading a team of hourly employees. It involves scheduling, visual merchandising, talent management, and ensuring operational efficiency.

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
  • Managing multiple specialty businesses
  • Competitor analysis
  • Managing a team of hourly team members and leaders
  • Recruiting, selecting and talent management

Nice to have

  • Selling training techniques
  • Visual merchandising