General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Atlanta, GA

This is a General Merchandise Team Leader role at Target, focusing on leading a team to ensure efficient store operations, excellent guest experience, and product availability. Responsibilities include team coaching, workload management, inventory accuracy, and driving sales goals within a retail environment.

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. With your direct leaders guidance, lead the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including receiving products, merchandising, signing, setting and updating merchandise salesfloor displays, sampling, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price change for GM areas.

Skills

Required

  • Guest service fundamentals
  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Team leadership
  • Coaching and training hourly team members
  • Interviewing
  • Developing talent
  • Evaluating talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Operational procedures
  • Inventory management
  • Sales goals
  • Merchandising
  • Product availability
  • Task assignment
  • Goal setting
  • Accountability
  • Fulfillment work
  • Compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws

Nice to have

  • Experience building a guest-first culture
  • Department sales trends
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload
  • Driving process improvements
  • Enhancing workload efficiency
  • Assessing reporting to identify gaps in GM processes
  • Developing a plan to resolve gaps
  • Assisting with efficient delivery to guests
  • Assessing fulfillment reporting
  • Product accuracy
  • Stock levels
  • Sales floor areas
  • Relaying Target communications
  • Evaluating candidates for open positions
  • Developing a guest-centric team
  • Executing all best practices
  • Closing skill gaps
  • Identifying team members for future leader positions
  • Utilizing growth development
  • Building a talent pool
  • Back-up cashier
  • Digital fulfillment processes