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From the employer's careers site First seen 29 Oct 2026

Small Format Team Leader

Target full-time

Salary

$25.25 - $42.95 per hour

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Description

The starting pay range for this position per hour is $25.25 - $27.25, with a full pay range of $25.25 - $42.95 per hour.

As a Small Format Team Leader at Target, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional guest service, customizing 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, is trained, and consistently delivers on Target's guest experience commitments and consistent operations
  • Actively observing and providing feedback, holding team members accountable while recognizing great guest experience moments
  • Reviewing area guest, financial, and team outcome metrics to identify opportunities, taking action to improve, and aligning team on the right behaviors and execution
  • Understanding sales goals, planning daily/weekly workload, and executing the same to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement
  • Demonstrating a service culture that prioritizes 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, ensuring inventory accuracy, and executing product arrangement, pricing, and promotional signing processes
  • Assigning daily tasks to team members based on planned workload and guest traffic patterns
  • Helping lead team members in the backroom and sales floor areas, reviewing all reporting to identify gaps, and developing a plan to resolve
  • Enabling efficient delivery to guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfillment 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 to expectations
  • Demonstrating inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences
  • Always demonstrating a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance
  • Leading and demonstrating a safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, identifying and correcting hazards, holding team accountable to following safety expectations, assisting with incident response, and reporting/investigating injuries timely and accurately
  • Modeling the execution of physical security processes to enhance the in-store security culture
  • Supporting merchandise protection strategies across the total store
  • Leading and demonstrating a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding and learning
  • Assuming store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts
  • Addressing all store emergency and compliance needs
  • Supporting 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 prioritize 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 and accomplish multiple tasks within established timeframes
  • Ability to communicate on multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed

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

  • leadership
  • communication
  • problem-solving
  • time management
  • teamwork

Nice to have

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