Specialty Sales Executive Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Broadview, IL

This role is a Specialty Sales Executive Team Leader at Target, responsible for driving sales, managing a team of hourly employees, and ensuring a positive guest experience in departments like Apparel & Accessories, Beauty, and Electronics. The role involves merchandising, inventory management, scheduling, and talent development, with a focus on sales performance and operational efficiency within a retail environment.

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
  • Sales trends
  • Inventory management
  • Guest shopping patterns
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Merchandising
  • Team management
  • Competitor analysis
  • Recruiting
  • Talent management

Nice to have

  • Sales training techniques
  • Visual merchandising
  • Operational change management
  • Store trend analysis
  • Talent planning
  • Team development
  • Onboarding
  • Product knowledge development
  • Performance management
  • Ethical conduct
  • Safety and compliance