Operations Manager - Flow Center - Chicago, IL

Target • Chicago, IL

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About The Position

The Operations Manager in Target’s Distribution and Receive Centers helps ensure product reaches guests as quickly as possible. The role focuses on safety, leadership, operational excellence, self-motivation, problem-solving, and teamwork. The manager fosters a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability, and leads an inclusive team focused on productivity, growth, and development.

The position involves creating a positive work environment through real-time observation and specific, constructive, actionable feedback. The manager ensures operational plans are executed, performance and budget goals are achieved, and teams are informed and coordinated across functions. The role also supports innovation in processes and methods, efficiency improvements, future process-flow optimization, root-cause analysis, and helping teams meet business goals. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience.
• Demonstrated leadership ability, including the ability to engage and motivate others.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills.
• Good reasoning, conflict-management, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• Able to access all areas of the Distribution Center, including mezzanine platforms.
• Able to read and interpret necessary policies and procedures to perform updates and operate systems and other programs within the Distribution Center, including traversing conveyor crossovers.

Responsibilities

• Foster a safety-first culture through awareness, training, and accountability.
• Lead and engage an inclusive team to maximize productivity, growth, and development.
• Create a positive work environment through real-time observation and specific, constructive, actionable feedback.
• Ensure operational plans are executed and performance and budget goals are achieved.
• Keep teams informed and coordinated across functions.
• Innovate with process and method improvements to increase efficiency and optimize future process flow.
• Find root causes to problems and support calculated risk-taking and testing.
• Help teams meet their business goals.

Benefits

• Eligible team members and their dependents may receive comprehensive health benefits, which may include medical, vision, dental, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Employee discount.
• Short-term disability.
• Long-term disability.
• Paid sick leave.
• Paid national holidays.
• Paid vacation.
• Financial, education, and well-being benefits and programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager