Food and Beverage Coordinator - San Jose, CA

Target•Morgan Hill, CA

5d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Food & Beverage Coordinator role supports all aspects of a profitable food and beverage business with the purpose of helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. This role utilizes industry knowledge to influence store leaders to execute food and beverage strategies and processes in store. The coordinator coaches and trains store leaders to become experts in their areas to consistently deliver sales growth through a clean, fresh, and rewarding experience for their teams and guests. They elevate the Target brand across food by providing market-level expertise to execute and amplify key seasons, holidays, and events. At Target, we believe in our team members having meaningful experiences that help them build and develop skills for a career. The role of a Food & Beverage Coordinator can provide you with skills and experiences in guest service fundamentals, building a freshness and reliability culture in food and beverage areas across a multi-unit market of stores, and food and beverage business fundamentals including department sales trends, freshness, food safety and quality, inventory management, product and service reliability, guest shopping patterns, and pricing and promotions strategies. You will gain awareness of competitors, leverage guest insights to influence store leadership and food teams to drive business initiatives, and influence in-store food and beverage processes and leverage food expertise to support business priorities and deliver on sales goals. You will assess daily business performance and provide store leaders guidance to drive efficiencies in food and beverage departments through in-store walks, and learn how to prepare for and help stores execute holiday and event plans in a competitive retail environment to build on year-over-year growth.

Requirements

4-year degree or equivalent experience
3+ years of food and beverage experience
Proven execution skills and ability to drive change
Operate in an ambiguous and rapidly changing work environment
Quickly adapt to changing priorities and tasks
Project and process management/ownership experience
Work in high intensity situations with composure and ease
Solution-based mindset with desire to uncover business gaps and solve problems
Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
Build strong partnerships with key partners
Experience leading stores or supporting field organization
Training experience
Supervisory experience
Strong leadership and influencing skills
Must live in or within driving distance of assigned district market area
Must be able to travel in assigned district market area

Responsibilities

Support operations, strategies, and food processes in assigned stores by coaching, teaching, and training.
Partner with field and store leadership, Store Operations, Merchandising, and other stakeholder groups to support and advocate for projects to champion food and grow profitable sales.
Evaluate, educate, and improve store conditions, guest experience, operational efficiency, waste reduction, and profitable sales through expertise.
Leverage reporting to evaluate performance in sales, markdowns, inventory productivity, food safety, and other measures.
Maintain industry knowledge and market trends by benchmarking competitor pricing, promotions, merchandising practices, and processes.
Utilize innovation, critical thinking, communication, and store partnership to understand and influence future seasons and events with insight and expertise.
Represent stores and food operations in advocating for locally requested food items the guest is looking for, including new items, holiday merchandising, and competitor merchandising benchmarking.
Influence and provide thoughtful feedback to key store and field partners (Team Leaders, ETLs, SDs, and district leadership).
Utilize industry knowledge to influence store leaders to execute food and beverage strategies and processes in store.
Lead and create a service culture utilizing tools and routines that model, train, and coach behavioral expectations to deliver the service standard.
Ensure execution through detailed training and education of store leadership teams and food and beverage experts, including ordering and managing inventory and supplies, merchandising, freshness, food safety, sampling, and other store-controlled processes.
Support guest service and profitable sales by assisting stores with guest-centric scheduling and training.
Encourage and deliver a fresh and safe experience through reinforcing food safety processes, training teams to integrate food safety, product rotation, cleaning and sanitation, and freshness into everyday processes.
Partner with Stores and Direct Store Delivery (DSD) Vendors to drive DSD sales through on-shelf availability and operational efficiency.
Partner with Starbucks and Pizza Hut field leaders to drive sales through guiding brand standard execution and operational efficiencies.
Maintain compliance with policies and procedures defined by all regulatory agencies.
Challenge teams to develop staffing and contingency plans that ensure coverage and maintain production and service capabilities.
Demonstrate a culture of ethical conduct, safety, and compliance; lead team to work in the same way and hold others accountable to this commitment.
Support Target’s safety culture through modeling and recognizing safe behaviors, empowering store leaders to correct and/or escalate hazards, and holding team accountable to safety policies, best practices, and training.
Demonstrate inclusivity by valuing diverse voices and approaches, being authentic and respectful, and creating equitable experiences.
All other duties based on business needs.