General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Seattle, WA

This role is a General Merchandise Team Leader at Target, focusing on managing a team to ensure efficient operations, excellent guest experience, and achievement of sales goals. Responsibilities include team leadership, training, performance management, inventory management, merchandising, and operational process improvements. The role is customer-facing and involves direct team management 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

  • Team leadership
  • Guest service
  • Retail operations
  • Inventory management
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Training and coaching
  • Performance management

Nice to have

  • Interviewing
  • Talent development
  • Process improvement
  • Merchandising
  • Backroom organization
  • Price change execution
  • Fulfillment processes
  • Candidate evaluation