Specialty Sales Team Leader

Target Target · Retail · Merced, CA

This is a retail sales team leader role at Target, focusing on guest experience, sales, merchandising, and team leadership within specialty sales departments like Apparel, Home, Beauty, or Electronics. The role involves managing a team of consultants, ensuring operational excellence, and driving sales through excellent customer service and visual merchandising.

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. Demonstrate a service culture that prioritizes the guest service experience. Model, train and coach team member expectations to deliver on our GUEST service model culture.

Skills

Required

  • Guest service fundamentals
  • Retail business fundamentals
  • Inventory management
  • Pricing and promotions strategies
  • Team leadership
  • Coaching
  • Talent development
  • Sales goal achievement
  • Merchandising
  • Visual merchandising
  • Ethical conduct
  • Safety compliance

Nice to have

  • Experience building a guest-first culture
  • Planning department workload
  • Leading multiple businesses
  • Interviewing
  • Evaluating talent
  • Retaining talent
  • Partnering with third-party vendors
  • Hiring processes
  • Onboarding processes