General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Danville, VA

This is a retail team leader position focused on general merchandise operations, guest experience, and team management. It involves tasks such as replenishment, pricing, sales floor maintenance, and leading a team of hourly employees. The role emphasizes operational efficiency, guest service fundamentals, and talent development 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

  • Guest service
  • Team leadership
  • Retail operations
  • Inventory management
  • Sales and promotions
  • Coaching and training
  • Talent development
  • Operational efficiency

Nice to have

  • Interviewing
  • Performance evaluation
  • Talent retention
  • Merchandising
  • Sales floor maintenance
  • Backroom organization
  • Price changes
  • Fulfillment processes
  • Compliance with laws