General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Hackettstown, NJ

Team Leader for General Merchandise at Target, responsible for overseeing daily operations, merchandising, inventory management, and team leadership. Focuses on guest experience, operational efficiency, and sales goals.

What you'd actually do

  1. Execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including: merchandising, pricing, setting and updating merchandise salesfloor displays, sampling, promotions and price change.
  2. With guidance from your leader, educate your team on how operational procedures, such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product stock levels, and maintaining sales floor areas, affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability.
  3. Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve.
  4. Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency.
  5. With your direct leader's guidance, assist with and lead the daily execution of tasks such as receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing the backroom, arranging merchandise, and putting up promotional signs for GM areas.

Skills

Required

  • Guest service
  • Retail operations
  • Inventory management
  • Team leadership
  • Coaching and training
  • Merchandising
  • Pricing and promotions
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Process improvement
  • Compliance

Nice to have

  • Experience building a guest first culture
  • Understanding of department sales trends
  • Understanding of guest shopping patterns
  • Planning and workload management
  • Interviewing talent
  • Developing talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Backroom organization
  • Pick, pack, and ship fulfillment