Specialty Sales Executive Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Glenview, IL

This role is for a Specialty Sales Executive Team Leader at Target, focusing on driving sales and managing teams in departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. Responsibilities include guest experience, merchandising, scheduling, competitor analysis, and team development. The role emphasizes sales, customer service, and retail operations, not AI/ML development.

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

  • guest service fundamentals
  • retail business fundamentals
  • department sales trends
  • inventory management
  • guest shopping patterns
  • pricing and promotions strategies
  • setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload
  • managing a team to deliver on sales goals
  • managing multiple specialty businesses
  • balancing team member expertise
  • knowledge of competitors
  • managing a team of hourly team members and leaders
  • creating business specific strategies and goals
  • recruiting, selecting and talent management of hourly team members and leaders

Nice to have

  • selling training techniques
  • visual merchandising
  • product knowledge