Food & Beverage Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · St.Louis Park, MN

Team Leader for Food & Beverage department at Target, responsible for ensuring product freshness, availability, accurate pricing, and effective operations. This role involves leading a team, managing inventory, upholding food safety standards, and driving sales performance within the department.

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 workload
  • Leading a team
  • Inventory management
  • Food safety policies and procedures
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Merchandising
  • Pricing strategies
  • Team leadership
  • Communication
  • Collaboration
  • Vendor partnerships
  • Hiring and onboarding
  • Compliance with federal, state, and local laws

Nice to have

  • Experience building a guest-first and freshness culture
  • Skills in interviewing, training, coaching, evaluating, retaining and developing talent
  • Food Service operations
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Promotional strategies
  • Sampling
  • Salesfloor merchandise displays
  • Subject matter expert in adult beverage laws