General Merchandise Team Leader

General Merchandise Team Leader

Target

Pay range per hour: $21.75 - $37.00

Target offers comprehensive health benefits including medical, vision, dental, and life insurance as well as 401(k), employee discount, short‑term and long‑term disability, paid sick leave, public holidays, and vacation. For more information visit

Mid‑Senior level

Part‑time

Marketing and Sales

Retail

Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is set, merchandised and available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. The General Merchandise and Food Sales team leads inbound, outbound, replenishment, and promotional signing processes for all General Merchandise (GM) areas of the store. This team also leads inventory accuracy, merchandise set‑up and pricing processes for all areas of the store.

This team may also lead Food & Beverage and Food Service, providing a fresh and food‑safe experience. Experts enable efficient delivery of merchandise to our guests by owning pick, pack and ship fulfillment work.

• Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest‑first culture on your team
• Retail business fundamentals including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotion strategies
• Leading a team by planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals, with alignment from your direct leader, while driving process improvements and enhancing workload efficiency
• Leading a team of hourly team members; including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent
• Coaching and training hourly team members to build a team with direction from your direct leader

• Execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, setting and updating merchandise sales‑floor displays, sampling, promotions and price change
• With guidance from your leader, educate your team on how operational procedures, such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product stock levels, and maintaining sales floor areas, affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability
• Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve
• Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency
• With your direct leader's guidance, assist with and lead the daily execution of tasks such as receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing the backroom, arranging merchandise, and putting up promotional signs for GM areas
• Assist and lead with the processes in inventory accuracy, merchandise set‑up and maintenance, and pricing for all areas of the store
• Assign daily tasks to TMs based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your leader
• Help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations
• Help with efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfillment work accurately (if applicable) and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and assist to develop a plan
• Responsible for collaborating with all teams and leaders (including closing team) to identify key priorities and ensure the store is guest‑ready in alignment with your leader’s direction
• Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members by relaying Target communications from available tools and resources during team connection moments
• Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest‑centric team, as directed by your immediate leader; model a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (this includes early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends)
• Support guest services such as back‑up cashier,…