General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Amherst, OH

This role is a General Merchandise Team Leader at Target, responsible for overseeing daily operations, ensuring guest satisfaction, managing a team of hourly employees, and driving sales goals within the general merchandise department. It involves tasks such as merchandising, inventory management, and team development.

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
  • Interviewing
  • Developing talent
  • Coaching
  • Evaluating talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Merchandising
  • Inventory management
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Operational procedures
  • Product accuracy
  • Stock level management
  • Sales floor maintenance
  • Task assignment
  • Goal setting
  • Fulfillment processes
  • Compliance with laws

Nice to have

  • AI-assisted coding tools
  • Growth mindset
  • Passion for AI