General Merchandise Team Leader

Pay range: $44K - $75K ($22.00 - $37.40 per hour). Pay is based on labor markets, education, experience, and certifications. Target offers comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), employee discount, paid sick leave, paid vacation, and more.

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

Experts of operations, process, and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests. GM teams prioritize guest experience while ensuring product is available and easy to shop – replenishment, pricing and signing, setting, and maintaining the sales floor and backroom. They also execute inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities.

• 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.
• 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.
• Lead the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including receiving products, merchandising, signing, setting, and updating merchandise sales floor displays, sampling, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price changes for GM areas.
• Educate the team on how operational procedures such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product accuracy and 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 them for the direct leader to review and approve.
• Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns, ensuring alignment with weekly and monthly business priorities.
• Help establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
• Lead pick, pack and ship fulfillment work accurately (if applicable) and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and develop a plan.
• 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 (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 through Target communications during team connection moments.
• Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest‑centric team, as directed by the direct leader.
• Identify team members for future leader positions and utilize growth development to build a talent pool within your department.
• Support guest services such as back‑up cashier, digital fulfillment processes while maintaining a compliance culture, including compliance with federal, state, and local adult beverage laws.
• Demonstrate inclusivity, authentic and respectful conduct, and create equitable experiences.
• Maintain a safe, compliant workplace by reporting and correcting hazards, lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors.
• Model the execution of physical security processes to enhance the in‑store security culture.
• Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store.
• 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.

• Enjoy interacting and helping others—guests and team members.
• Thrives in a fast‑moving, highly active, physically demanding role.
• Flexible with a variable work schedule, including nights,…