# General Merchandise Team Leader

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $21.00 - $35.70 per hour
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

The General Merchandise Team Leader role at Target involves leading a team to deliver exceptional guest experiences, driving sales growth, and maintaining store operations.

The starting pay range for this position is $21.00 - $23.00 per hour, with a full pay range of $21.00 - $35.70 per hour.

Responsibilities:

- Deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring, and Friendly guest experience

- Ensure every team member understands and consistently delivers on Target's guest experience commitments and consistent operations

- Actively observe and provide feedback, holding team members accountable while recognising great guest experience moments

- Review area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities and drive results

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

- Educate team members on operational procedures and their impact on inventory management, store profitability, and product availability

- Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and develop plans to resolve them

- Be an expert in operations, accuracy, process, and efficiency

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

- Establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable

- Lead pick, pack, and ship fulfilment work accurately and assess reporting in fulfilment

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

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

- Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team

- Identify team members for future leader positions and utilise growth development to build a talent pool

- Support guest services and demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct

- Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours

Requirements:

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Age 18 or older

- Previous retail experience preferred but not required

- Ability to lead and hold others accountable

- Effective communication skills

- Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment

- Welcoming and helpful attitude towards all guests and team members

- 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

- Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely

- Flexible work schedule, including nights, weekends, and holidays

- Reliable and prompt attendance necessary

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- leadership
- communication
- team management
- operations
- safety

### Nice to have
- retail experience
- inventory management
- guest service

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