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Food & Beverage Team Leader

Target Kansas City, MO On-site full-time

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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

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