Service & Engagement Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Springfield, OR

This role is a team lead for a retail store's service and engagement team. Responsibilities include managing a team of guest advocates, ensuring excellent customer service, driving loyalty programs, and upholding operational standards. While the company is a large retailer that may use AI internally, this specific role does not involve building or directly managing AI/ML systems. It focuses on customer interaction and team leadership within a retail environment.

What you'd actually do

  1. Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
  2. Lead a team of passionate and knowledgeable Guest Advocates, Service Advocates and Front of Store Attendants who strive to exceed guest service expectations by focusing on decreasing wait time, friendly guest interactions, quality of service, resolution, driving loyalty and cleanliness standards.
  3. Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.
  4. Understand sales goals, business reporting and guest insights to plan and execute daily/weekly workload, to deliver on store sales goals, guest engagement and troubleshoot opportunity areas as needed throughout the day.
  5. Support Target Loyalty Programs to ensure your team can educate and promote the suite of benefits, features and offerings that reward our guest and/or enhance their shopping experience.

Skills

Required

  • Team leadership
  • Customer service
  • Retail operations
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Talent development
  • Performance management
  • Problem-solving
  • Compliance

Nice to have

  • Guest engagement
  • Loyalty programs
  • Inventory management
  • Pricing and promotions
  • Interviewing
  • Coaching
  • Talent retention
  • Business reporting
  • Guest insights
  • Adult beverage laws