Food & Beverage Team Leader

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $25.00 - $27.00. The full pay range for this position per hour is $25.00 - $42.50.

Pay is based on several factors which vary based on position. These include labor markets and, in some instances, may include education, work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay, Target cares about and invests in you as a team member, so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more, to help you and your family take care of your whole selves.

Other benefits for eligible team members include 401(k), employee discount, short term disability, long term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring products are fresh, in stock, available and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. They are experts of operations, process and efficiency. This team leads food and food services including replenishment, inventory accuracy, food safety, presentation, ensuring price accuracy and promotional signing processes for all Food & Beverage areas of the store.

The Food & Beverage Team Leader is responsible for leading a team of hourly team members and ensuring operational excellence. No two days are ever the same, but a typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest 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, and align the team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrate wins, drive results that deliver outcomes and elevate the guest experience.
• Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, changes to sales floor merchandise displays, sampling and promotions.
• Lead a guest‑focused, efficient Food & Beverage team that strives to deliver the Food & Beverage standards by completing the Food & Beverage Daily Standards walk.
• Assess backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service on a daily basis by walking the Target Food & Beverage Standards. Prioritize your business needs and identify workload tasks for the team; review reporting to identify business trends for follow‑up.
• Establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to those expectations.
• Be a partner to the store leadership team through communication and collaboration to influence current sales performance and workload deliverables, leveraging check‑in and check‑outs as daily connection points.
• Maintain a fresh, full and food‑safe area during all operating hours leveraging strong inventory management, area routines and Food Safety policies and procedures.
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities set by your direct leader.
• Validate and follow up on team members’ progress against their assigned prioritized workload tasks, production area routines, and application of best practices.
• Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices; help close skill gaps through development, coaching, training, and team interactions.
• Lead team huddles to communicate focuses and trends, leveraging store reporting and HQ communications.
• Develop and maintain partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations are established,…