# Food & Beverage Team Leader

**Company**: Target
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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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 have the skills and experience of:

- Guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest-first and freshness culture on your team.

- Food & Beverage business fundamentals, including department sales trends, freshness, food safety and quality, inventory management, item reliability, guest shopping patterns and pricing and promotions strategies.

- Planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support Food & Beverage priorities and deliver sales goals.

- Leading a team of hourly team members, including skills in interviewing, training, coaching, evaluating, retaining and developing talent.

A typical day will most likely include the following responsibilities:

- Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring and Friendly guest experience.

- Ensures every team member understands, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target’s guest experience commitments and consistent operations.

- Actively observes and provides feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments.

- Reviews area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, takes action to improve, and aligns team on the right behaviors and execution, celebrates wins, drives results that deliver outcomes and elevates the guest experience.

- Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, changes to salesfloor merchandise displays, sampling and promotions.

- With guidance from your direct leader, lead a guest-focused, efficient Food & Beverage team that strives to deliver the Food & Beverage standards by completing the Food & Beverage Daily Standards walk.

- Assess backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service on a daily basis by walking the Target Food & Beverage Standards.

- At the guidance of your direct leader, establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to those expectations.

- Be a partner to the store leadership team through communication and collaboration to influence current sales performance and workload deliverables.

- Maintain a fresh, full and food safe area during all operating hours leveraging strong inventory management, area routines and Food Safety policies and procedures.

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

- Validate and follow-up on team members’ progress against their assigned prioritized workload tasks.

- Lead and demonstrate a culture of executing all best practices.

- Lead team huddles to communicate focuses and trends.

- Develop and maintain partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations are established.

- Remain up-to-date on relevant trends and products to educate team members.

- Support your leader in the hiring and onboarding process of new team members.

- Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up and Drive-up.

- Support becoming a subject matter expert in federal, state and local adult beverage laws.

- Lead your team to uphold and maintain all Starbucks and Pizza Hut Brand Standards.

- Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance.

- Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors.

- Model the execution of physical security processes.

- Support merchandise protection strategies.

- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches.

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

- Occasionally assume store-level leadership on duty responsibilities.

- Address all store emergency and compliance requirements.

This may be the right job for you if:

- You enjoy interacting and helping others.

- You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role.

- You are open to working a variable work schedule.

Requirements:

- Must be at least 18 years old or older.

- High school diploma or equivalent.

- Previous retail and/or food experience preferred.

- Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business.

- Lead and hold others accountable.

- Communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners.

- Work independently and as part of a team.

- Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently.

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

- Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members.

- Effective communication skills.

We are an awesome place to work and care about our teams, so we want to make sure we are clear on a few more basics that we expect:

- Access all areas of the building.

- Interpret instructions, reports and information.

- Accurately handle cash register operations.

- Climb up and down ladders.

- Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely.

- Flexible work schedule.

- Ability to work in environments that will include refrigeration and freezer temperatures.

- Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements.

## Skills

### Required
- guest service
- food safety
- inventory management
- leadership
- communication

### Nice to have
- retail experience
- food experience

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