Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales – Assistant Manager Merchandising and Service

Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales – Assistant Manager Merchandising and Service

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong business acumen
• Comfortable dealing with and managing team through ambiguity
• Comfortable managing conflict, leading and holding others accountable
• Capability to remain focused and composed in a fast-paced environment and accomplish multiple tasks within the established timeframes
• Ability to communicate in multiple frequency devices and operate handheld scanners, and other technology equipment as directed
• Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
• Ability to relate well and interact professionally with all levels of an organization
• Learn and adapt to current technology needs
• Independently manage workload and prioritize tasks

Responsibilities

• Drive total store sales, demonstrate how you, your team and your departments contribute to and impact total store profitability.
• Lead your team to prioritize the guest experience and deliver on store sales goals.
• Create, lead, and model a culture of executing all best practices as outlined with team onboarding, learning, and required training; help close skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.
• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Create schedules and make adjustments as needed to align to guest traffic and business needs.
• Manage your team to effectively plan merchandising planning, sampling and promotions.
• Develop working relationship with third party vendors and oversee Team Leader’s management of vendor performance.
• Know and assess the competition and leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business forward.
• Work a schedule that aligns to guest and business needs (this includes early morning, evening, overnight shifts and weekends).
• Build and lead a team of consultants that support total store functions.
• Lead your team to deliver inspiring visual moments using Visual Standards and Guiding Principles.
• Ensure team prioritizes the guest experience by maintaining welcoming, clean, and safe fitting rooms.
• Plan, lead and follow-up on organizational and operational change.
• Anticipate and identify changes in unique store trends.
• Anticipate staffing needs while managing talent planning and recruitment, leading team onboarding, and closing product knowledge and skill gaps through development, coaching and team interactions.
• Develop and coach your team and Team Leaders to provide a shopping experience that meets the needs of the guest.
• Create a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management.
• Train your team to provide service and a shopping experience that meets the needs of the guest.
• Always demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety and compliance; lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
• Develop and lead a safety culture and performance of the department 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.
• Lead an in-store security culture by focusing on deterrence, response and resolution in order to improve physical security processes.
• Lead merchandise protection strategies across the total store; including ordering, storage and application as directed by best practices.
• Addressing all store emergency and compliance needs.
• As a key carrier, exercise good judgment and implement all safe and secure training and processes.
• Model creating a welcoming experience by greeting guests as you & your team are completing your daily tasks.
• Demonstrate how to engage with guests when assistance is needed, engage with guests in a welcoming way, and help solve their specific needs.
• Lead by thanking guests and let them know we’re happy they chose to shop at Target.
• All other duties based on business needs.

Preferred Qualifications

• You enjoy interacting and helping others – including guests that shop our store and fellow team members you work with.
• You thrive in a fast-moving, highly active and physically demanding role, where teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.
• You are open to working a flexible work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays and other peak shopping times).