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General Merchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader

Target On-site executive full-time

Salary

$64,000.00 - $128,000.00 per year

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Description

The General Merchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader role at Target involves driving total store sales, managing a team of experts in operations, accuracy, and efficiency, and ensuring a consistent experience for guests. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of guest service fundamentals, retail business fundamentals, and experience in setting and planning department workload to support business priorities.

Responsibilities:

  • Drive total store sales and understand the role in sales growth
  • Manage Food & Beverage, food services, inbound, outbound, replenishment, inventory accuracy, presentation, pricing, and promotional signing processes
  • Manage a team of experts in operations, accuracy, and efficiency
  • Enable efficient delivery to guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work
  • Develop a strategy and utilize workload planning tools to complete all scheduled workload
  • Conduct regular check-ins with the team to ensure completion of tasks and workload
  • Manage all GM backroom and sales floor areas, review reporting to identify gaps, and develop a plan to resolve
  • Oversee GM Team Leaders' workload planning and sales plans
  • Drive fulfillment sales by leading the Fulfillment team
  • Drive a culture centered in food safety and train, validate, and coach the team
  • Lead an efficient operation to fund the sales culture
  • Create a guest-obsessed culture that prioritizes the guest experience and delivers on store sales goals
  • Know and assess the competition and leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business
  • Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs
  • Manage a consistent experience for guests by ensuring product is in stock, fresh, available, food safe, and accurately priced

Requirements:

  • 4-year degree or equivalent experience
  • Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills
  • Strong business acumen
  • Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
  • Manage conflict, lead, and hold others accountable
  • Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
  • Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
  • Learn and adapt to current technology needs
  • Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently

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

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