Food & Beverage Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Mesa, AZ

Team Leader for Food & Beverage department at Target, responsible for ensuring product freshness, stock availability, accurate pricing, and efficient operations. This role involves guest service, team management (training, coaching, evaluating), workload planning, and maintaining department standards. It also includes vendor partnerships and supporting store leadership.

What you'd actually do

  1. Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.
  2. Ensures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
  3. Actively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
  4. Reviews area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, takes action to improve, and aligns team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrates wins, drives results that deliver outcomes and elevates the guest experience.
  5. Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, changes to salesfloor merchandise displays, sampling and promotions.

Skills

Required

  • Guest service fundamentals
  • Food & Beverage business fundamentals
  • Planning department's daily/weekly workload
  • Leading a team of hourly team members
  • Interviewing
  • Training
  • Coaching
  • Evaluating
  • Retaining talent
  • Developing talent
  • Inventory management
  • Food safety policies and procedures
  • Federal, state, and local laws

Nice to have

  • Sales trends
  • Freshness
  • Quality
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Vendor partnerships
  • Hiring process
  • Onboarding process
  • Back-up cashier
  • Order pick up (OPU)
  • Drive-up (DU)