# Food & Beverage Team Leader **Company**: Target **Location**: Kansas City, MO **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Retail **Industry**: Retail **Apply**: https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/8509-State-Line-Rd-Kansas-CityMO-64114-2723/Food---Beverage-Team-Leader_R0000478417?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_331ef913-09e ## Description The Food & Beverage team enables a consistent experience for guests by ensuring product is fresh, in stock, available, and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. As a Food & Beverage Team Leader, you will lead a team of hourly team members and be responsible for: - 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 - Understanding sales goals, planning and executing daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement - Leading a guest-focused, efficient Food & Beverage team that strives to deliver the Food & Beverage standards - Assessing backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service on a daily basis - Establishing clear goals and expectations and holding team members accountable to those expectations - Being a partner to the store leadership team through communication and collaboration to influence current sales performance and workload deliverables - Maintaining a fresh, full, and food-safe area during all operating hours - Assigning daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns - Validating and following up on team members' progress against their assigned prioritised workload tasks - Leading and demonstrating a culture of executing all best practices - Leading team huddles to communicate focuses and trends - Developing and maintaining partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations are established - Remaining up-to-date on relevant trends and products to educate team members - Supporting your leader in the hiring and onboarding process of new team members - Supporting guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up, and Drive-up - Supporting becoming a subject matter expert in federal, state, and local adult beverage laws - Leading your team to uphold and maintain all Starbucks and Pizza Hut Brand Standards - Demonstrating a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance - Leading and demonstrating a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours - Modelling the execution of physical security processes - Supporting merchandise protection strategies across the total store - Demonstrating inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches - Following all safe and secure training and processes as a key carrier - Occasionally assuming store-level leadership on duty responsibilities - Addressing all store emergency and compliance requirements **Requirements:** - Must be at least 18 years old or older - High school diploma or equivalent - Previous retail and/or food experience preferred, but not required - Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business - Ability to lead and hold others accountable - Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners and other technology equipment as directed - Ability to work independently and as part of a team - Ability to manage workload and prioritise 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 **Working Conditions:** - Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues - Interpret instructions, reports, and information - Accurately handle cash register operations as needed - Climb up and down ladders if needed - Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely - Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends, and holidays) - Reliable and prompt attendance necessary - Ability to work in environments that will include refrigeration and freezer temperatures and conditions - Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties - Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift ## Skills ### Required - leadership - communication - team management - inventory management - food safety ### Nice to have - retail experience - food experience --- Source: [Apply at target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/8509-State-Line-Rd-Kansas-CityMO-64114-2723/Food---Beverage-Team-Leader_R0000478417?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)