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From the employer's careers site First seen 25 Oct 2026

Fulfillment Operations Team Leader

Target Arlington Heights, IL On-site full-time

Salary

$24.00 - $26.00 per hour

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Description

We are seeking a Fulfillment Operations Team Leader to join our team at Target. As a Fulfillment Operations Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of hourly team members and ensuring that guests receive an excellent shopping experience.

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $24.00 - $26.00, and the full pay range for this position per hour is $24.00 - $40.80.

As a Fulfillment Operations Team Leader, your responsibilities will include:

  • Consistently delivering guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience
  • Ensuring every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target's guest experience commitments and consistent operations
  • Actively observing and providing feedback, holding team members accountable while recognising great guest experience moments
  • Reviewing area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, taking action to improve, and aligning team on the right behaviours and execution
  • Demonstrating a service culture that prioritises the guest service experience
  • Leading your team and driving fulfilment goals, understanding your role in supporting sales growth and how your departments and team contribute to and impact total store profitability
  • Utilising your workload planning tools to ensure your team completes all scheduled workload and all orders are fulfilled to meet the delivery, freshness, and service standards
  • Reviewing all fulfilment reporting to identify gaps and developing a plan to resolve
  • Creating daily plans for your team with direction from your direct leader
  • Being an expert of operations, accuracy, process, and efficiency
  • Enabling efficient delivery to our guests by leading pickup and ship from store workload
  • Evaluating and recommending candidates for open positions and developing a guest-centric team
  • Establishing clear goals around quality, accuracy, and timeliness and holding team members accountable to expectations
  • Ensuring the team is following food safety guidelines and selecting fresh food items for guests
  • Ensuring supplies are ordered timely and stocked
  • Following all safe and secure training and processes as a key carrier
  • Occasionally assuming store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts
  • Demonstrating inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences
  • Demonstrating a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance
  • Leading and demonstrating a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately
  • Modelling the execution of physical security processes to enhance the in-store security culture
  • Supporting merchandise protection strategies across the total store
  • Leading and demonstrating a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning
  • Addressing all store emergency and compliance needs
  • Supporting guest services such as back-up cashier, order pickup, and Drive up

We are looking for someone who:

  • Enjoys interacting and helping others
  • Thrives in a fast-moving, highly active, and physically demanding role
  • Is open to working a variable work schedule with varying hours, days, or shifts
  • Has a high school diploma or equivalent
  • Is at least 18 years of age or older
  • Has previous retail experience (preferred but not required)
  • Can lead and hold others accountable
  • Can learn and adapt to current technology needs
  • Can work independently and as part of a team
  • Can manage workload and prioritise tasks independently
  • Has a welcoming and helpful attitude towards all guests and other team members
  • Has effective communication skills

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

Skills

Required

  • Leadership
  • Communication
  • Time Management
  • Teamwork
  • Problem-solving
  • Adaptability
  • Attention to detail
  • Physical stamina

Nice to have

  • Previous retail experience
  • Leadership experience
  • Experience with technology and software
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