# General Merchandise & Food Sales Executive Team Leader

**Company**: Target
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $64,000.00 - $128,000.00
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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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 enabling efficient delivery to guests. The role requires knowledge of guest service fundamentals, retail business fundamentals, and experience in setting and planning department(s) monthly/quarterly 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, including transitions, revisions, and sales plans

- Drive fulfillment sales by leading the Fulfillment team

- Drive a culture centered in food safety

- 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

- 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 and signed on the sales floor

- Assess all GM and Food & Beverage backroom and sales floor areas

- Plan, lead, and follow-up on organizational and operational change

- Anticipate and identify changes in unique store trends

- Develop and coach the team to elevate their skills and expertise

- Establish a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management

- Provide service and a shopping experience that meets the needs of the guest

- Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance

- As a key carrier, follow all safe and secure training and processes

- Address store needs

- All other duties based on business needs

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

- Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues

- Interpret instructions, reports, and information

- Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely

- Accurately handle cash register operations

- Climb up and down ladders

- Flexible work schedule and regular attendance necessary

## Skills

### Required
- retail management
- guest service
- operations management
- inventory management
- food safety
- leadership
- communication
- problem analysis
- decision making
- financial analysis

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