# General Merchandise Team Leader

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Athens, GA
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $21.00 - $35.70 per hour
**Category**: Retail
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

The General Merchandise Team Leader role at Target involves leading a team to deliver exceptional guest experiences, driving sales, and maintaining store operations.

**Job Summary:** As a General Merchandise Team Leader, you will be responsible for leading a team of hourly team members, prioritising guest experience, and ensuring that products are available, accurately priced, and easily accessible.

**Responsibilities:**

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

- Ensure every team member understands 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 the team on the right behaviours and execution

- Lead the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement

- Educate the team on how operational procedures affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability

- Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist in developing a plan to resolve them

- Be an expert in operations, accuracy, process, and efficiency

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

- Establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable

- Help with efficient delivery to guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfilment work accurately

- Enable a consistent experience for guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced, and signed on the sales floor

- Stay informed about relevant trends and products to educate team members

- Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team

- Identify team members for future leader positions and utilise growth development to build a talent pool

- Support guest services such as back-up cashier and digital fulfilment processes

- Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches

- Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct and follow all Target policies and safety procedures

- Lead and demonstrate a safety culture through modelling and recognising safe behaviours

**Requirements:**

- High school diploma or equivalent

- Age 18 or older

- Previous retail experience preferred but not required

- Ability to lead and hold others accountable

- Effective communication skills

- Ability to work independently and as part of a team

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

- Welcoming and helpful attitude towards all guests and team members

- 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

- Scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely

- Flexible work schedule; reliable and prompt attendance necessary

**Benefits:** Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs, including medical, vision, dental, life insurance, and more. Other benefits include 401(k), employee discount, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

**Salary Range:** $21.00 - $35.70 per hour

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## Skills

### Required
- Communication
- Leadership
- Time Management
- Teamwork
- Problem-solving

### Nice to have
- Retail experience
- Inventory management
- Guest service

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