General Merchandise Team Leader (Early Mornings)

General Merchandise Team Leader

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

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.

At Target, we believe in leaders having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a General Merchandise Team Leader can provide the skills and experience of :

• 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 promotions 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, all 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 of hourly team members with direction from your direct leader.

As a General Merchandise Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day most likely will include the following responsibilities :

The good news is that we have some amazing training that will help teach you everything you need to know to be a General Merchandise Team Leader. But there are a few things you need from the get-go :

Ability to : lead and hold others accountable, communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed, work independently and as part of a team, manage workload and prioritize tasks independently, capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes, welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members, effective communication skills.

We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect :