Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales (assistant Manager Merchandising and Service) - Fitchburg, Wi

Target Target · Retail · Fitchburg, WI

This role is for an Executive Team Leader of Specialty Sales at Target, focusing on merchandising and service for departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. The position involves driving sales, managing a team, creating a guest-first culture, and overseeing operational tasks such as scheduling, inventory, and visual merchandising. It requires leadership skills in talent management, coaching, and performance 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

  • Knowledge of guest service fundamentals
  • Experience building and managing a guest first culture
  • Knowledge of retail business fundamentals
  • Experience setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload
  • Ability to manage multiple specialty businesses
  • Knowledge of competitors
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders
  • Skills in recruiting, selecting and talent management

Nice to have

  • Experience in Apparel and Accessories, Beauty and Electronics
  • Selling training techniques
  • Visual merchandising