General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Cookeville, TN

This role is for a General Merchandise Team Leader at Target, focusing on guest experience, retail operations, and leading a team of hourly employees. Responsibilities include managing daily workload, ensuring product availability, merchandising, and developing team members. It is not an AI-related role.

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
  • Retail operations
  • Inventory management
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Coaching and training
  • Talent development
  • Process improvement
  • Workload efficiency
  • Merchandising
  • Product stocking
  • Backroom organization
  • Price changes
  • Reporting analysis
  • Task assignment
  • Goal setting
  • Fulfillment processes
  • Product availability
  • Sales floor maintenance
  • Team collaboration
  • Product trends
  • Candidate evaluation
  • Talent pool development
  • Cashiering
  • Digital fulfillment
  • Compliance