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From the employer's careers site First seen 6 Nov 2026

Small Format Team Leader

Salary

$25.00 - $42.50 per hour

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Description

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $25.00 - $27.00, with a full pay range of $25.00 - $42.50 per hour.

As a Small Format Team Leader at Target, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a seamless shopping experience for guests. You will be responsible for providing exceptional guest service, customising each experience, and anticipating guest needs.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Consistently delivering guest experience commitments to create an Easy, Inspiring, and Friendly guest experience
  • Ensuring every team member understands and consistently delivers on Target's guest experience commitments and consistent operations
  • Actively observing and providing feedback to team members, recognising great guest experience moments
  • Reviewing area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities for improvement
  • Planning departmental daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals
  • Demonstrating a service culture that prioritises the guest service experience
  • Enabling a consistent experience for guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced, and signed on the sales floor
  • Being an expert of operations, accuracy, process, and efficiency
  • Managing incoming and outgoing products, maintaining stock levels, and executing product arrangement, pricing, and promotional signing processes
  • Assigning daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns
  • Leading team members in the backroom and sales floor areas, reviewing reporting to identify gaps, and developing a plan to resolve issues
  • Enabling efficient delivery to guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfilment work
  • Evaluating candidates for open positions and developing a guest-centric team
  • Participating in team onboarding and learning
  • Closing knowledge and skill gaps through training and experiences
  • Establishing clear goals and expectations and holding team members accountable
  • Demonstrating inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches
  • Always demonstrating a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance
  • Leading and demonstrating a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours
  • Supporting merchandise protection strategies across the total store
  • Regularly assuming store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities
  • Addressing all store emergency and compliance needs

Requirements:

  • Must be at least 18 years of age or older
  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • Previous retail experience preferred, but not required
  • Lead and hold others accountable
  • Learn and adapt to current technology needs
  • Work independently and as part of a team
  • Manage workload and prioritise tasks independently
  • Welcoming and helpful attitude towards all guests and other team members
  • Effective communication skills
  • Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment
  • Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners and other technology equipment

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

Nice to have

  • previous retail experience
  • leadership experience
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