Specialty Sales Executive Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Woodridge, IL

This is a Specialty Sales Executive Team Leader role at Target, focused on driving sales and managing a team in departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. The role involves guest service, merchandising, sales planning, team leadership, and operational management within a retail environment. It is not directly involved in AI/ML development or research.

What you'd actually do

  1. Drive total store sales, understand your role in sales growth and how your departments and team contribute to and impact total store profitability
  2. Create a guest-obsessed culture and lead your team to prioritize the guest experience and deliver on store sales goals
  3. Create schedules and make adjustments as needed to align to guest traffic and business needs
  4. Manage your team to effectively plan merchandising and pricing workload including transitions, revisions, sales plans, sampling and promotions
  5. Know and assess the competition and leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the destination of choice for our guests

Skills

Required

  • Knowledge of guest service fundamentals
  • Experience building and managing a guest first culture on your team
  • Knowledge of retail business fundamentals including: department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies
  • Experience setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload to support business priorities and managing a team to deliver on sales goals
  • Ability to manage multiple specialty businesses and balance team member expertise in each area to effectively manage teams in each department
  • Knowledge of competitors and ability to leverage insights that drive business objectives in each specialty department
  • Experience managing a team of hourly team members and leaders and creating business specific strategies and goals
  • Skills in recruiting, selecting and talent management of hourly team members and leaders

Nice to have

  • Training on merchandising and pricing workload
  • Training on sales plans, sampling and promotions
  • Training on competitor assessment and guest insights
  • Training on team management and development
  • Training on sales force development using selling techniques
  • Training on backroom processes, organization, layout and replenishment
  • Training on visual merchandising
  • Training on fitting room management
  • Training on organizational and operational change
  • Training on store trends
  • Training on staffing needs and talent planning
  • Training on team onboarding and development
  • Training on performance management
  • Training on ethical conduct, safety and compliance