# Food & Beverage Team Leader **Company**: Target **Work arrangement**: onsite **Job type**: full-time **Category**: Retail **Industry**: Retail **Apply**: https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/10900-Stadium-Pkwy-Kansas-City-KS-66111-8100/Food---Beverage-Team-Leader_R0000475560?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply **Canonical**: https://yubhub.co/jobs/job_740bfab5-8da ## Description The Food & Beverage team at Target 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 opportunity to develop skills and experience in: - Guest service fundamentals and 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 Responsibilities: - Consistently deliver guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring, and Friendly guest experience - Ensure every team member understands, is trained, 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, take action to improve, and align team on the right behaviours and execution - Understand sales goals, plan and execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement - Lead a guest-focused, efficient Food & Beverage team that strives to deliver the Food & Beverage standards - Assess backroom and sales floor areas of Food & Beverage and Food Service on a daily basis - 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 - Maintain a fresh, full, and food-safe area during all operating hours - 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 prioritised 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 - Foster a productive relationship with your Starbucks district manager - Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance - Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours - Model the execution of physical security processes - Support merchandise protection strategies across the total store - 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 (LOD) responsibilities - Address all store emergency and compliance requirements Requirements: - Must be at least 18 years old or older - High school diploma or equivalent - Previous retail and/or food experience preferred, but not required - Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business - Lead and hold others accountable - Communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed - Work independently and as part of a team - Manage workload and prioritise tasks independently - Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes - Welcoming and helpful attitude toward all guests and other team members - Effective communication skills Physical demands: - 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 if needed - Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely - Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends, and holidays) - Reliable and prompt attendance necessary - Ability to work in environments that will include refrigeration and freezer temperatures and conditions - Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements - Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift ## Skills ### Required - guest service - food safety - inventory management - leadership - communication ### Nice to have - previous retail experience - food and beverage business knowledge --- Source: [Apply at target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com](https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/10900-Stadium-Pkwy-Kansas-City-KS-66111-8100/Food---Beverage-Team-Leader_R0000475560?utm_source=yubhub.co&utm_medium=jobs_feed&utm_campaign=apply)