Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales (Assistant Manager Merchandising & Service) - Fort Wayne

Target•Fort Wayne, IN

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Executive Team Leader Specialty Sales (Assistant Manager Merchandising & Service) role at Target involves leading a team of specialized consultants to provide tailored suggestions and solutions through compelling visual merchandising. This role prioritizes guest experience while ensuring product availability and ease of shopping. The position offers meaningful experiences to build and develop skills in guest service fundamentals, retail business, department sales trends, inventory management, guest shopping patterns, pricing, promotions, workload planning, team management, competitor analysis, and talent management. The Executive Team Leader will be responsible for driving total store sales, leading the team to prioritize guest experience and achieve sales goals, and fostering a culture of executing best practices. They will also be responsible for creating schedules, managing merchandising, planning, sampling, and promotions, developing relationships with third-party vendors, and leading visual merchandising efforts. The role also includes ensuring a positive fitting room experience, managing operational changes, anticipating store trends, managing talent planning and recruitment, developing and coaching the team, and creating a culture of accountability. Additionally, the Executive Team Leader will lead safety and security initiatives, address store emergency and compliance needs, and assume store-level leadership responsibilities as needed.

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 established timeframes.
Ability to communicate on 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
Relate well with and interact with all levels of the organization
Learn and adapt to current technology needs
Independently manage workload and prioritize tasks
Access all areas of the building to respond to guest or team member issues
Interpret instructions, reports and information
Scan, handle and move merchandise efficiently and safely, including frequently lifting or moving merchandise up to 44 pounds without additional assistance from others
Capable of working in and exposure to varying temperatures, humidity, and other elements while performing certain job duties including but not limited to Drive-Up, carryout, etc.
Accurately handle cash register operations as needed
Climb up and down ladders as needed
Ability to remain mobile for the duration of a scheduled shift (shift length may vary).

Nice To Haves

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 variable work schedule with varying hours, days or shifts (including nights, weekends, holidays, closing shifts and other peak shopping times).

Responsibilities

Consistently delivers guest experience commitments.
Holds TLs accountable to deliver exceptional guest experiences through consistent accountability, team development, training and recognition.
Celebrates outstanding guest experiences across teams and ensures recognition is consistent and meaningful.
Reviews area guest, financial, and team metrics to identify gaps and understand team behaviors.
Celebrates wins, sets clear priorities, and leads actions that drive results and enhance the guest experience.
Partners across teams to create an easy, inspiring and friendly guest experience.
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.
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 your 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 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.
Address all store emergency and compliance needs.
As a key carrier, implement all safe and secure training and processes.
Regularly assume store-level leadership on duty (LOD) responsibilities to enable the guest experience for the store during assigned shifts.
All other duties based on business needs.