General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Bakersfield, CA

Team Leader role in General Merchandise at Target, focusing on guest experience, team leadership, operations, and sales goals. Responsibilities include managing workload, coaching team members, ensuring product availability, and executing store priorities.

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. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team, as directed by your direct leader.

Skills

Required

  • Guest service
  • Team leadership
  • Operations management
  • Inventory management
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Coaching and development
  • Talent acquisition

Nice to have

  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Merchandising
  • Pricing strategies
  • Promotions strategies
  • Fulfillment processes