Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales (assistant Manager Merchandising & Service) - Portage

Target Target · Retail · Portage, MI

This role is an Executive Team Leader for Specialty Sales at Target, focusing on merchandising and service for departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. The responsibilities include driving sales, creating a guest-first culture, managing team schedules, planning workload, assessing competition, and developing a sales force. It emphasizes leadership, sales, and operational 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
  • 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 building and managing a guest first culture
  • Experience building and managing a guest first culture on your team
  • Experience setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload to support business priorities and managing a team to deliver on sales goals
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders and creating business specific strategies and goals
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders and creating business specific strategies and goals