Target

Sells everyday goods and affordable designer styles

Assistant Store Manager General Merchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader

Retail Store ManagementPosted on Nov 11

Full-timeVoorhees Township, NJ, USA$64k - $128kIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

A four-year degree or equivalent experience is required.
Strong interest in and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business is required.
Strong interpersonal and communication skills are required.
Strong business acumen is required.
Ability to deal with ambiguity is required.
Ability to manage conflict, lead, and hold others accountable is required.
Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial analysis, and quantitative analysis, are required.
Ability to relate well to and interact with all levels of the organization is required.
Ability to learn and adapt to current technology needs is required.
Ability to manage workload and prioritize tasks independently is required.
Ability to access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues is required.
Ability to interpret instructions, reports, and information is required.
Ability to scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without assistance, is required.
Ability to accurately handle cash register operations as needed is required.
Ability to climb ladders using three points of contact is required.
Ability to work in environments ranging from 34°F to -10°F as needed is required.
Ability to work a flexible schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays, and maintain reliable, prompt attendance is required.

Responsibilities

Deliver guest experience commitments consistently.
Hold team leaders accountable for delivering exceptional guest experiences through accountability, team development, training, and recognition.
Recognize outstanding guest experiences across teams and ensure recognition is consistent and meaningful.
Review guest, financial, and team metrics to identify gaps and understand team behaviors.
Set clear priorities and lead actions that drive results and improve the guest experience.
Partner across teams to create an easy, inspiring, and friendly guest experience.
Oversee all General Merchandise and Food backroom and sales floor areas, review reporting to identify gaps, and develop and validate plans to resolve them.
Build a team to execute daily and weekly workload and achieve department and store sales goals and guest engagement through merchandising, signing, setting and updating sales floor displays, sampling, receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price changes.
Drive total store sales and demonstrate how the team and departments contribute to store profitability.
Model a welcoming guest experience by greeting guests, acknowledging requests for assistance, and thanking guests for choosing Target.
Assess, plan, and validate operational best practices and educate the team on gaps through onboarding, learning, and required training.
Manage Food & Beverage business, food services where applicable, and alcohol sales.
Lead pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work where applicable, assess fulfillment reporting, identify gaps, and assist in developing plans.
Develop strategies and use workload-planning tools to complete scheduled workload and keep assigned areas guest-ready.
Conduct regular team check-ins to guide task and workload completion according to resources and priorities.
Drive a food-safety culture by training, validating, and coaching the team on food-safety standards and cleaning routines.
Develop vendor partnerships to establish clear expectations and meet brand standards.
Lead understanding of how operational procedures, including merchandise setup, product capacities, and sales floor quantities, affect shortage, profitability, replenishment, inventory, and pricing accuracy, while ensuring regulatory compliance.
Assess competition and use guest insights and feedback to drive business and make the store a destination of choice.
Ensure products are in stock, fresh, available, food-safe, and accurately priced and signed with minimal disruption to guests.
Assess General Merchandise and Food & Beverage backroom and sales floor areas, review Food & Beverage standards and priorities, and use reporting to identify gaps and create resolution plans.
Anticipate short- and long-term staffing needs and manage talent planning and recruitment.
Establish and maintain accountability through clear expectations and performance management.
Create equitable experiences by valuing diverse voices and approaches and acting authentically and respectfully.
Follow Target policies, safety procedures, and role-specific guidelines; report and correct hazards; and hold the team accountable for safe and compliant work.
Lead an in-store security culture focused on deterrence, response, and resolution to improve physical security processes.
Lead merchandise protection strategies across the store, including ordering, storage, and application according to best practices.
As a key carrier, implement safe and secure training and processes.
Address store emergency and compliance needs.
Assume store-level leader-on-duty responsibilities during assigned shifts to support the guest experience.
Perform other duties based on business needs.

The pay range is $64,000.00 - $128,000.00

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. Find competitive benefits from financial and education to well-being and beyond at https://corporate.target.com/careers/benefits.

ALL ABOUT TARGET

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

ALL ABOUT GENERAL MERCHANDISE

Experts of operations,processand efficiency who enable a consistent experience forall ofour guests.

Teams in General Merchandise (GM)and Food & Beverage (F&B)prioritize guest experience while blending completion of tasks that ensure product isfresh,availableand easy to shop – replenishment, pricing and signing, setting, andmaintainingthe sales floor and the backroom. The GMand F&Bteams also execute inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities.

At Target,we believe in ourleadershaving meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role ofa GeneralMerchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader can provide you with theskills and experience of:

Guest service fundamentals and experience building and managing a guest-first culture on your team

Retail business fundamentals,including:department sales trends, inventory management, freshness and quality, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies

Leading a team,settingand planning department(s) monthly/quarterly workload to support business priorities and managing a team to deliver on sales goals

Knowledge of the competition;leveraginginsights to drive business objectives

Managing team leaders and creating business specific strategies and goals,coachingand training to build ateam of talented experts.

Recruiting, selecting and talentmanagement ofhourly team members and leaders

As aGeneral Merchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader,no twodaysare ever the same, but a typical daymost likelywillinclude the following responsibilities:

Consistently delivers guest experience commitments

Holds TLs accountable to deliver exceptional guest experiences through consistent accountability, team development,trainingand recognition.

Celebratesoutstanding guest experiences across teams and ensures recognition is consistent and meaningful.

Reviews area guest, financial, and team metrics toidentifygaps and understand team behaviors.

Celebrates wins, sets clear priorities, and leads actions that drive results and enhance the guest experience.

Partners across teams to create an easy,inspiringand friendly guest experience.

Oversee all GM & Food backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting toidentifygaps and develop a plan to resolve including completion validation.

Build a team to lead the executionofdaily/weekly workload todeliver ondepartment and store sales goals and guest engagement,including:merchandising,signing,settingand updating merchandisesalesfloordisplays, sampling,receiving products,restocking shelves, organizing backrooms,and price change for GM & Food areas.

Drive total store sales,demonstratehow you, your team and your departments contribute toandimpact total store profitability.

Model creating a welcoming experience by greeting guests, acknowledging when guests needassistanceand thanking them for choosing Target

Assess,Plan,andvalidatebest practices todetermineoperational opportunitieseducating your team on gaps to addressvia team onboarding, learning, andrequiredtrainings.

Manage Food&Beveragebusiness, food services (if applicable),andalcohol sales.

Enable efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfillment work (if applicable)and assess reporting in fulfillment toidentifygaps andassistto developa plan.

Develop a strategy and utilize your workload planning tools to complete all scheduled workload ensuring yourareasareguest ready at all times.

Conduct regular check-ins with your team toguideappropriatecompletionof tasks and workloadgiven resources and priorities.

Drive a culture centered in food safety; train,validateand coach team to deliver proper execution on all food safety standards and cleaning routines.

Lead the development of partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations areestablishedand brand standards are met.

Lead the understanding of how operational procedures, likemerchandise set-up, product capacities andsalesfloorquantities impact shortage, profitability, instore replenishment,inventoryand pricing accuracy including adherence to regulatory compliance.

Lead prioritization and conduct regular check-ins with your team to guideappropriate completionof tasks andworkloadgiven resources and priorities.

Know andassess thecompetition; leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the destination of choice for our guests.

Manage a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, fresh, available, food safe, and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor with minimal disruption to the guest.

Assess all GMandFood& Beveragebackroom and sales floor areas, walk Food & Beverage Standards to assess priorities in food and review GM/Food reporting toidentifygaps and develop a plan to resolve.

Anticipate short-term and long-term staffing needs and manage talent planning and recruitment.

Establishandmaintaina culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management.

Demonstrateinclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creatingequitableexperiences.

Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, following all Target policies and safety procedures, adhere to role-specific guidelines (e.g., food safety, pricing), and helpmaintaina safe, compliant workplace by reporting and correcting hazards,lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.

Lead an instore security culture by focusing on deterrence,responseand resolutionin order toimprove physical security processes.

Lead merchandise protection strategies across the total store,including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices.

As akeycarrier,implementall safe and secure training and processes.

Address all store emergency and compliance needs.

Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts

All other dutiesbasedon business needs.

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR

This may be the right job for you if:

You enjoy interacting and helping others - including guests thatshopour store and fellow team members you work with.

You thrive in a fast-moving, highlyactiveand physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.

You are open toworkingavariablework schedule with varying hours,daysor shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays,closing shiftsand other peak shopping times).

The good news is that we have some amazing training that will helpbuild upon the skills you already have tosucceed asaGeneral Merchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader.But,there are a fewthingsyou should have from the get-go:

4-yeardegree or equivalentexperience

Strong interest and knowledge of theFood &Beverage business

Strong interpersonal and communication skills

Strong business acumen

Comfortable dealing with ambiguity

Manage conflict, lead and hold others accountable

Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis

Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization

Learn and adapt to currenttechnologyneeds

Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently

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 basicsthatwe expect; specifically, the ability to

Access all areas of the building to respond toallguest or team member issues

Interpret instructions,reportsand information

Scan,handleand move merchandise efficiently and safely, includingoccasionallylifting or moving merchandise up to 44poundswithoutadditionalassistance from others.

Accurately handle cash register operationsasneeded

Climb up and downladders using3 points of contact always

Ability to work in an environment that could range from 34°F to -10°F as needed

Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights,weekendsand holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessary.

Benefits Eligibility

Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_D

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

In compliance with state and federal laws, Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, please submit your request at target.com/targethr/hr-request. Non-accommodation-related requests, such as application follow-ups or technical issues, will not be addressed through this channel.

About the Company

Target

Sells everyday goods and affordable designer styles

Target sells groceries, clothing, home goods and other everyday products to U.S. shoppers through stores and its website, with an emphasis on affordable style and design. Its own brands include Cat & Jack children's clothing and Good & Gather food, alongside national brands and exclusive designer collections. Customers shop in person or order online for shipping, pickup or delivery, while Target Plus adds products from outside sellers. Merchandise sales drive its revenue, supplemented by Roundel advertising, marketplace fees and paid memberships. The company traces its roots to 1902, opened its first Target store in 1962, and is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

Company size: 10,001+
Company stage: Not listed
Total funding: Not listed
Headquarters: Minneapolis, MN
Founded: 1902

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