General Merchandise Team Leader

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $21.25 - $23.25. The full pay range for this position per hour is $21.25 - $36.15.

Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. 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.

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.

• 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.
• 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 in developing a plan to resolve them for your direct leader to review and approve.
• Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency.
• 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 team members 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 in developing a plan.
• 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 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, 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, safety and compliance; lead and hold the team accountable to working in the same way.
• Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately.
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