General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Fairport, NY

Team Leader role at Target focused on General Merchandise operations, including merchandising, inventory management, pricing, and leading a team of hourly associates. The role emphasizes guest service, operational efficiency, and sales goal achievement within a retail environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including: merchandising, pricing, setting and updating merchandise salesfloor displays, sampling, promotions and price change.
  2. With guidance from your leader, educate your team on how operational procedures, such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product stock levels, and maintaining sales floor areas, affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability.
  3. Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve.
  4. Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency.
  5. With your direct leader's guidance, assist with and lead the daily execution of tasks such as receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing the backroom, arranging merchandise, and putting up promotional signs for GM areas.

Skills

Required

  • Team leadership
  • Guest service
  • Retail operations
  • Inventory management
  • Merchandising
  • Pricing
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Process improvement
  • Talent development
  • Coaching

Nice to have

  • Interviewing
  • Developing talent
  • Evaluating talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Compliance with adult beverage laws