General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Vestal, NY

Team Leader for General Merchandise at Target, responsible for overseeing daily operations, ensuring guest experience, managing inventory, and leading a team of hourly employees. Focuses on sales goals, process efficiency, and talent development within the 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
  • Team leadership
  • Inventory management
  • Sales strategy
  • Operations management
  • Coaching and development
  • Talent acquisition

Nice to have

  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Department sales trends
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Process improvements
  • Workload efficiency
  • Interviewing
  • Retaining talent
  • Training
  • Receiving products
  • Merchandising
  • Signing
  • Salesfloor displays
  • Sampling
  • Restocking shelves
  • Organizing backrooms
  • Price change
  • Product accuracy
  • Stock levels
  • Sales floor maintenance
  • Fulfillment work
  • Product availability
  • Target communications
  • Team connection moments
  • Candidate evaluation
  • Onboarding
  • Skill gap closure
  • Talent pool building
  • Back-up cashier
  • Digital fulfillment processes
  • Compliance with adult beverage laws