# General Merchandise Team Leader

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Biddeford, ME
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $23.00 - $39.10 per hour
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a General Merchandise Team Leader to join our team at Target. As a General Merchandise Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of hourly team members and ensuring that our guests have an exceptional shopping experience.

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $23.00 - $25.00, and the full pay range is $23.00 - $39.10. Pay is based on several factors, including labour markets, education, work experience, and certifications.

As a General Merchandise Team Leader, you will 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

- Leading the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement

- Educating team members on how operational procedures affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability

- Assessing reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assisting in developing a plan to resolve

- Being an expert of operations, accuracy, process, and efficiency

- Assigning daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns

- Establishing clear goals and expectations and holding team members accountable

- Helping to enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced, and signed on the sales floor

- Staying informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members

- Evaluating candidates for open positions and developing a guest-centric team

- Identifying team members for future leader positions and utilising growth development to build a talent pool

- Supporting guest services such as back-up cashier and digital fulfilment processes

- Demonstrating inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches

- Demonstrating a culture of ethical conduct and following all Target policies and safety procedures

- Leading and demonstrating a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours

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 18 years or older

- Has previous retail experience (preferred but not required)

- Can lead and hold others accountable

- Can communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners and other technology equipment

- 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 team members

- Has effective communication skills

Benefits of working at Target include:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k) and employee discount

- Short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, and paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

Please visit https://tgt.biz/BenefitsForYou_C to learn more about benefits eligibility for this role.

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## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- communication
- team management
- inventory management
- guest service

### Nice to have
- retail experience
- previous leadership experience

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