Executive Team Leader General Merchandise (Assistant Store Manager Merchandising) - Flint, MI

Target • Flint, MI

5d • $64,000 - $128,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Team Leader General Merchandise (Assistant Store Manager Merchandising) role at Target focuses on leading operations, process, and efficiency to ensure a consistent and positive guest experience. This role involves managing teams responsible for replenishment, pricing, signing, sales floor maintenance, backroom organization, and executing inbound, outbound, and fulfillment responsibilities. The position offers opportunities to develop skills in guest service, retail business fundamentals, team leadership, competitive analysis, talent management, and operational strategy. The Executive Team Leader is instrumental in driving sales, profitability, and maintaining a guest-first culture.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong business acumen
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Ability to manage conflict, lead, and hold others accountable
• Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
• Ability to relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
• Ability to learn and adapt to evolving technology needs
• Ability to independently manage workload and prioritize tasks
• Ability to access all areas of the building to respond to all guest or team member issues
• Ability to interpret instructions, reports, and information
• Ability to scan, handle, and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including occasionally lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others.
• Ability to climb up and down ladders
• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends, and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessary.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building and managing a guest-first culture on your team
• Knowledge of department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, and pricing and promotions strategies
• Experience leading a team, setting and planning department monthly/quarterly workload, and managing a team to deliver on sales goals
• Knowledge of the competition and leveraging insights to drive business objectives
• Experience managing a team of team leaders, creating business-specific strategies and goals, and coaching and training to build a team of talented leaders
• Experience in recruiting, selecting, and talent management of hourly team members and leaders
• Experience with pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work

Responsibilities

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments.
• Hold Team Leaders (TLs) accountable for exceptional guest experiences through accountability, team development, training, and recognition.
• Celebrate outstanding guest experiences across teams and ensure consistent and meaningful recognition.
• Review area guest, financial, and team metrics to identify gaps and understand team behaviors.
• Celebrate wins, set clear priorities, and lead actions that drive results and enhance the guest experience.
• Partner across teams to create an easy, inspiring, and friendly guest experience.
• Build a team to lead the execution of daily/weekly workload to deliver on department and store sales goals and guest engagement, including merchandising, signing, setting and updating merchandise sales floor displays, receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price changes for GM areas.
• Drive total store sales, demonstrating how personal contributions, team efforts, and department performance impact total store profitability.
• Assess, plan, and validate best practices to determine operational opportunities, educating the team on gaps through onboarding, learning, and required trainings.
• Establish and maintain a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management.
• Develop a strategy and utilize workload planning tools to complete all scheduled workload, ensuring areas are guest-ready at all times.
• Assess and understand the competition; leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and become the destination of choice for guests.
• Create a scheduling plan based on monthly and weekly business workload and guest traffic patterns.
• Lead prioritization and conduct regular check-ins with the team to guide appropriate completion of tasks and workload given resources and priorities.
• Lead the understanding of how operational procedures, such as merchandise set-up, product capacities, and sales floor quantities, impact shortage, profitability, in-store replenishment, inventory, and pricing accuracy, including adherence to regulatory compliance.
• Enable efficient delivery to guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work (if applicable) efficiently and accurately to meet guest promise times.
• Oversee all GM backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting to identify gaps, and develop a plan to resolve, including completion validation.
• Anticipate short-term and long-term staffing needs and manage talent planning and recruitment.
• Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
• Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, following all Target policies and safety procedures, adhering to role-specific guidelines (e.g., food safety, pricing), and helping maintain a safe, compliant workplace by reporting and correcting hazards; lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
• Lead an in-store security culture by focusing on deterrence, response, and resolution to improve physical security processes.
• Lead merchandise protection strategies across the total store, including ordering, storage, and application as directed by best practices.
• As a key carrier, implement all safe and secure training and processes.
• Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
• Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts.
• Perform all other duties based on business needs.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health benefits and programs (medical, vision, dental, life insurance)
• 401(k)
• Employee discount
• Short term disability
• Long term disability
• Paid sick leave
• Paid national holidays
• Paid vacation

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: Associate degree