Executive Team Leader GM & Grocery (Assistant Manager General Merchandise and Grocery) - Houston, TX

Target • Houston, TX

10d • $64,000 - $128,000 • Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Team Leader GM & Grocery (Assistant Manager General Merchandise and Grocery) role at Target focuses on leading teams to ensure a positive guest experience while managing operations, inventory, and sales for General Merchandise (GM) and Food & Beverage (F&B) departments. This role involves overseeing daily tasks such as replenishment, pricing, sales floor maintenance, and backroom organization. The position aims to develop leaders by providing meaningful experiences in guest service, retail business fundamentals, team leadership, and operational efficiency. The Executive Team Leader is responsible for driving sales, managing team leaders, coaching and training staff, and ensuring adherence to operational standards, including food safety and merchandise protection.

Requirements

• 4-year degree or equivalent experience
• Strong interest and knowledge of the Food & Beverage business
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong business acumen
• Comfortable dealing with ambiguity
• Manage conflict, lead and hold others accountable
• Strong cognitive skills, including problem analysis, decision making, financial and quantitative analysis
• Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
• Learn and adapt to current technology needs
• Manage workload and prioritize tasks independently
• 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 accurately handle cash register operations as needed
• Ability to climb up and down ladders using 3 points of contact always
• Ability to work in an environment that could range from 34°F to -10°F as needed
• Flexible work schedule (e.g., nights, weekends and holidays); reliable and prompt attendance necessary.

Nice To Haves

• Teamwork, flexibility, and creative problem solving are key to success.

Responsibilities

• Consistently deliver guest experience commitments.
• Hold Team Leaders (TLs) accountable for exceptional guest experiences through consistent accountability, team development, training, and recognition.
• Celebrate outstanding guest experiences across teams and ensure recognition is consistent and meaningful.
• 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.
• Oversee all GM & Food backroom and sales floor areas, review all reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve, including completion validation.
• 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, sampling, receiving products, restocking shelves, organizing backrooms, and price changes for GM & Food areas.
• Drive total store sales, demonstrating how you, your team, and your departments contribute to and impact total store profitability.
• Model creating a welcoming experience by greeting guests, acknowledging when guests need assistance, and thanking them for choosing Target.
• Assess, plan, and validate best practices to determine operational opportunities, educating your team on gaps to address via team onboarding, learning, and required trainings.
• Manage Food & Beverage business, food services (if applicable), and alcohol sales.
• Enable efficient delivery to our guests by leading pick, pack, and ship fulfillment work (if applicable) and assess reporting in fulfillment to identify gaps and assist to develop a plan.
• Develop a strategy and utilize workload planning tools to complete all scheduled workload, ensuring areas are guest-ready at all times.
• Conduct regular check-ins with your team to guide appropriate completion of tasks and workload given resources and priorities.
• Drive a culture centered in food safety; train, validate, and coach the team to deliver proper execution on all food safety standards and cleaning routines.
• Lead the development of partnerships with vendors to ensure clear expectations are established and brand standards are met.
• Lead the understanding of how operational procedures, like merchandise set-up, product capacities, and sales floor quantities, impact shortage, profitability, instore replenishment, inventory, and pricing accuracy, including adherence to regulatory compliance.
• Lead prioritization and conduct regular check-ins with your team to guide appropriate completion of tasks and workload given resources and priorities.
• Know and assess the competition; leverage guest insights and feedback to drive the business and be the destination of choice for our guests.
• Manage a consistent experience for our guests by ensuring product is in stock, fresh, available, food safe, and accurately priced and signed on the sales floor with minimal disruption to the guest.
• Assess all GM and Food & Beverage backroom and sales floor areas, walk Food & Beverage Standards to assess priorities in food, and review GM/Food reporting to identify gaps and develop a plan to resolve.
• Anticipate short-term and long-term staffing needs and manage talent planning and recruitment.
• Establish and maintain a culture of accountability through clear expectations and performance management.
• 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, adhere to role-specific guidelines (e.g., food safety, pricing), and help maintain a safe, compliant workplace by reporting and correcting hazards, lead and hold the team accountable to work in the same way.
• Lead an instore 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.
• 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, which may include medical, vision, dental, life insurance and more
• 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