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From the employer's careers site First seen 28 Oct 2026

Small Format Team Leader

Target On-site full-time

Salary

$26.50 - $45.05 per hour

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Description

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $26.50 - $28.50, with a full pay range of $26.50 - $45.05 per hour.

As a Small Format Team Leader at Target, you will play a crucial role in ensuring a seamless shopping experience for guests. Your responsibilities will include:

  • Delivering exceptional guest service and customizing each experience to meet individual needs
  • Ensuring product is in stock, accurately priced, and readily available on the sales floor
  • Leading a team of hourly team members, providing guidance, coaching, and feedback to ensure they have the skills and knowledge needed to excel
  • Managing workload, prioritizing tasks, and meeting sales goals and deadlines
  • Maintaining a safe and secure work environment, adhering to all safety protocols and procedures
  • Collaborating with other teams to drive business results and achieve company objectives

To be successful in this role, you should possess:

  • Excellent communication and leadership skills
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to changing priorities
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions
  • Experience in retail or a related field, although not essential
  • High school diploma or equivalent required; previous leadership experience preferred

In addition to competitive pay, Target offers a comprehensive benefits package, including medical, vision, and dental coverage, 401(k) matching, and paid time off.

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 daily/weekly workload with guidance from direct leader, and execute the same to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement.
  • Demonstrate a service culture that prioritises the guest service experience.
  • Enable a consistent experience for guests by ensuring product is in stock, available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor.
  • Be an expert of operations, accuracy, process and efficiency.
  • With guidance from your direct leader, manage incoming and outgoing products, maintain stock levels, ensuring inventory accuracy, and executing product arrangement, pricing and promotional signing processes for your assigned department(s).
  • Assign daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns.
  • Help lead team members in your department(s) in the backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve.
  • Enable efficient delivery to guests by leading pick, pack and ship fulfilment work.
  • Evaluate candidates for open positions and develop a guest-centric team.
  • Participate in team onboarding and learning.
  • Close knowledge and skill gaps through training and experiences.
  • Establish clear goals and expectations and hold team members accountable to expectations.
  • Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches.
  • Always 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.
  • Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities.
  • Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
  • Support guest services such as back-up cashier, order pick up (OPU) and Drive up (DU).

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.

Skills

Required

Nice to have

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You apply with the employer directly. Their original posting is here: https://target.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/targetcareers/job/1607-Woodbine-St-RidgewoodNY-11385/Small-Format-Team-Leader_R0000478117

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