General Merchandise Team Leader

Pay

The starting hourly rate for this position is $20.75 - $22.75. The full hourly range is $20.75 - $35.25.

Target offers comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), employee discount, short‑term and long‑term disability, paid sick leave, national holidays, and paid vacation. Learn more at

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly experience.
• Ensure every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.
• Actively observe and provide feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.
• Review area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, take action to improve, align the team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrate wins, drive results that deliver outcomes and elevate the guest experience.
• With direct leader guidance, lead the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including receiving products, merchandising, signing, setting, updating merchandises floor displays, sampling, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price changes for GM areas.
• With guidance from direct leader, educate the team on how operational procedures affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability.
• Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and develop a plan to resolve them for review and approval.
• Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency.
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by direct leader.
• Help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to them.
• Help deliver efficient fulfillment work accurately (if applicable) and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and develop a plan.
• Help enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor while prioritizing guest experience.
• Collaborate with all teams and leaders to identify key priorities and ensure the store is guest‑ready in alignment with leader direction.
• Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members through Target communications during team connection moments.
• Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest‑centric team as directed by your direct leader.
• Identify team members for future leadership positions and utilize growth development to build a talent pool within your department.
• Support guest services such as backup cashier and digital fulfillment processes while maintaining a compliance culture, including compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, following Target policies and safety procedures, uphold role‑specific guidelines (e.g., food safety, pricing), and help maintain a safe, compliant workplace by reporting and correcting hazards.
• Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting investigations promptly and accurately.
• Model the execution of physical security processes to enhance the in‑store security culture.

• Support merchandise protection strategies across the store, including ordering, storage, and application as directed by best practices.
• Follow safe and secure training and processes as a key carrier.
• Occasionally assume store‑level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience during assigned shifts.
• Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
• Perform all other duties based on business needs.

• You enjoy interacting and helping others, including guests that shop in the store and fellow team…