General Merchandise Associate

General Merchandise Team Leader

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture.

Experts of operations, process and efficiency who enable a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is set, merchandised and available, accurately priced and signed on the sales floor. The General Merchandise and Food Sales team leads inbound, outbound, replenishment, and promotional signing processes for all General Merchandise (GM) areas of the store. This team also leads inventory accuracy, merchandise set-up and pricing processes for all areas of the store. This team may also lead Food & Beverage and Food Service, providing a fresh and food safe experience. Experts enable efficient delivery of merchandise to our guests by owning pick, pack and ship fulfillment work.

The role of a General Merchandise Team Leader can provide you with the skills and experience of: guest service fundamentals and experience building a guest first culture on your team; retail business fundamentals including department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing and promotions strategies; leading a team by planning department(s) daily/weekly workload to support business priorities and deliver sales goals, with alignment from your direct leader, all while driving process improvements and enhancing workload efficiency; leading a team of hourly team members; including skills in interviewing, developing, coaching, evaluating and retaining talent; coaching and training hourly team members to build a team of hourly team members with direction from your direct leader.

As a General Merchandise Team Leader, no two days are ever the same, but a typical day most likely will include the following responsibilities: execute daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, pricing, setting and updating merchandise sales floor displays, sampling, promotions and price change. With guidance from your leader, educate your team on how operational procedures, such as setting up and organizing merchandise, managing product stock levels, and maintaining sales floor areas, affect inventory management, store profitability, and product availability. Help assess reporting to identify gaps in GM processes and assist to develop a plan to resolve for your direct leader to review and approve.