General Merchandise Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Columbus, OH

Team Leader role in General Merchandise at Target, focusing on guest experience, team management, operational efficiency, and sales goals. Responsibilities include leading a team, ensuring product availability, merchandising, and executing store operations.

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
  • Operational process
  • Inventory management
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Coaching and training
  • Talent development
  • Merchandising
  • Product availability
  • Price management

Nice to have

  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Interviewing
  • Evaluating talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Sampling
  • Backroom organization
  • Price change execution
  • Reporting analysis
  • Task assignment
  • Fulfillment processes
  • Compliance with laws
  • Candidate evaluation
  • Talent pool development