Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales (assistant Manager Merchandising and Service)- San Marcos, Tx

Target Target · Retail · San Marcos, TX

Executive Team Leader for Specialty Sales at Target, responsible for driving sales, managing a team, and ensuring a positive guest experience in departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. Focuses on merchandising, sales strategies, and talent 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
  • Monthly/quarterly workload planning
  • Sales goal management
  • Managing multiple specialty businesses
  • Competitor analysis
  • Team management
  • Recruiting
  • Selecting talent
  • Talent management

Nice to have

  • Selling training techniques
  • Visual merchandising
  • Operational change management
  • Store trend anticipation
  • Staffing needs anticipation
  • Talent planning
  • Recruiting (long and short term)
  • Team development
  • Coaching
  • Product knowledge
  • Skill gap closure
  • Onboarding
  • Accountability
  • Performance management
  • Ethical conduct
  • Safety
  • Compliance